Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Jörg Widmann
born: 06/19/1973
nationality: Germany
Upcoming:
4th string quartet
10/11/2008 | Théâtre de l'Athénée - Paris - France
Chorale quartet
10/15/2008 | Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal - Berlin - Germany
News
09/09/2008
September brings the start of another anticipated season packed with performances from the Schott/EAM family. Here is just a sampling of the many highlights from our catalogues this season. Thomas Adès The Emerson String Quartet premieres Thomas Adès' new ...
08/25/2008
Work of the Week - Jörg Widmann: 24 Duos
On August 30 the first 13 installments of Jörg Widmann’s 24 Duos , a cycle for violin and cello, see their world premiere by violinist Caroline Widmann (the composer’s sister) and Canadian cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. The performance is part of the AlpenKlassik festival in ...
08/13/2008
Listen to Marvel: Jörg Widmann at AlpenKLASSIK
Jörg Widmann is Composer-in-Residence at this year’s AlpenKLASSIK Summer Festival in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria. Widmann is introduced as both composer and clarinettist through four portrait concerts in which his music is programmed with music from the Romantic and Classical Modernist repertoire. ...
08/11/2008
Widmann Focus at London's Wigmore Hall
From September 2008 to June 2009 London's Wigmore Hall is dedicating a whole concert series to German composer Jörg Widmann. The program features a selection from his wide-spread chamber music oeuvre including the monolithic series of five string quartets. Widmann's compositions are presented ...
08/06/2008
Jörg Widmann Composer-in-Residence at Marlboro Music
Jörg Widmann serves as Composer-in-Residence this month at Marlboro Music, the acclaimed music institution in Vermont led by Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida where master artists collaborate with young professionals in studying, rehearsing and performing a range of works. After three weeks of ...
05/01/2008
Jörg Widmann's "Eleven Humoresques" Receives World Premiere by Yefim Bronfman at Carnegie Hall
Jörg Widmann's new piano work Eleven Humoresques sees its world premiere this month performed by Yefim Bronfman on his solo piano recital at Carnegie Hall. Since the time of Robert Schumann, the literary genre of the humorous sketch has turned into a cheerful, often subtly ironic and usually ...
04/30/2008
Work of the Week - Jörg Widmann: Eleven Humoresques
On 4 May Jörg Widmann's new work Eleven Humoresques receives its world premiere in New York. The soloist is the highly acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman who will perform the work in the great Stern Audtorium at Carnegie Hall. Since Robert Schumann, the originally literary genre ...
04/23/2008
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2008 online
Thema: New Brass Concertos Contents: p. 2-5: World premieres: Krzysztof Penderecki: Concerto per corno e orchestra in Bremen - Elisabeth Naske: Die rote Zora in Lucerne - Jörg Widmann: Elf Humoresken in New York etc. p. 6-7: First nights: Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids ...
03/03/2008
Jörg Widmann's "Antiphon" Sees North American Premiere with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Following last month's world premiere by Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jörg Widmann's Antiphon sees its North American premiere on Friday, March 7 under Maestro Jarvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Modeled after the principles of Venetian polychorality, ...
09/12/2007
Young German Philharmonic On Tour with Widmann's New Violin Concerto
On 17 September Christian Tetzlaff and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie under the direction of Manfred Honeck will present the world premiere of Jörg Widmann's long-awaited Violin Concerto at the Philharmonie Essen. After this event, performances will also take place in Berlin, Leipzig, Gütersloh ...
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