03/06/2012

Peter Eötvös Curates Toronto Symphony’s New Creations Festival Featuring Jörg Widmann

March 1 marked the beginning of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2012 New Creations Festival, this year curated by none other than Hungarian new music pillar Peter Eötvös. A distinct reflection of the composer’s omnivorous tastes and inspirations, the eighth annual New Creations Festival boasts an ...

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12/08/2011

Dutilleux awarded the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize by the New York Philharmonic

French composer Henri Dutilleux has been announced as the winner of the inaugural 'Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music at the New York Philharmonic'. On Wednesday December 7th 2011 he was awarded the prestigious prize for "extraordinary artistic endeavour in the field of new music". ...

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10/11/2011

Work of the Week - Jörg Widmann: Con brio

Jörg Widmann's striking concert overture has played its way through concert halls around the globe, celebrating one success after another. In the three years since it’s acclaimed world premiere, the work has received interpretations by many of the world’s leading conductors, and its remarkable ...

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08/24/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 5/2011 online

Stage Animals Scientists estimate that there are 1,367,555 animal species currently known on earth. Insects and spiders constitute the largest group by far with a total exceeding a million different species. The figure is somewhat more modest in the world of theatre, or to be more precise, ...

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06/29/2011

Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale for Peter Eötvös

The Hungarian composer and conductor Peter Eötvös is awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The award will be presented at the 55th International Festival of Contemporary Music in Venice from 24 September to 1 October. According to the announcement of ...

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06/14/2011

World Première: Cello Concerto Grosso by Peter Eötvös in Berlin

Peter Eötvös Cello Concerto Grosso for cello and orchestra (2011) Jointly commissioned by Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle Zürich, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra 17' • 16 June 2011 · Berlin (D) Philharmonie Miklós ...

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06/13/2011

Work of the Week - Peter Eötvös: Cello Concerto Grosso

Whenever Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös writes a new large-scale orchestral work, it is likely that it has been commissioned by a group of internationally renowned presenters. This is the case with his new Cello Concerto Grosso , a truly a global project initiated by commissioners from ...

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06/10/2011

Aldeburgh 2011

The 2011 Aldeburgh Festival opens this evening in the beautiful setting of the east coast of England for over two weeks of contemporary and classical music.  Highlights of this year’s festival include the world premiere of Peter Eötvös’ SCHILLER performed by the London Sinfonietta and vocal ...

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05/04/2011

World Première: SCHILLER: energische Schönheit by Peter Eötvös in Witten

Peter Eötvös SCHILLER: energische Schönheit for 8 voices, 8 winds, 2 percussionists and accordion (2010) Texts from Friedrich Schiller: Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (Ger.) Commissioned by the WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln), supported by the Freunde des Ensemble Modern ...

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04/21/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 3/2011 online

21ST CENTURY CELLO CONCERTOS If you ask cellists about the special character of their instrument, they will above all enthuse about the cello’s extensive range and wide dynamic spectrum, taking in the sonorous ’masculine’ tone of the bass and the luminously bright timbre in the highest parts ...

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