Tagged with 'world premiere'

A poetic orchestral tribute to Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday: Oriri by Elis Hallik.

Vibrant, rhythmic, and virtuosic: Fazıl Say’s new Mandolin Concerto premieres at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival – featuring star mandolinist Avi Avital.

A new opera about youth, sexuality, and social taboos: world premiere with young performers in Hamburg.

1977 – A Violin Concerto is Sebastian Hilli’s new work to be premiered with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. It is a a musical portrait of the year 1977. Its twelve movements each transform a real event from that year into a vibrant orchestral scene. Discover more about this inspiring work and a fascinating year! 

 A new accordion concerto by Dobrinka Tabakova – composed for Ksenija Sidorova and now touring Europe.

A true story of injustice turned into opera: Anthony Davis’s The Central Park Five brings five falsely convicted teenagers to the stage – in May 2025 a new orchestral version premieres at Detroit Opera.

What does a lawnmower have to do with orchestral sound? For Han Lash, quite a lot. Zero Turning Radius is a new piece that showcases the orchestra as a nimble musical creature. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), a leading orchestra dedicated to new music, commissioned the piece and will premiere it on May 4, 2025 in Boston.

Thomas Larcher’s returning into darkness – a new cello concerto emerging from silence. Be there as Alisa Weilerstein and the New York Philharmonic premiere this emotional journey in sound, a contemporary work that moves from darkness into light and back.

 A hidden late work emerges: Wilhelm Petersen’s Violin Concerto lay unperformed for almost 80 years – now it finally premieres! Experience the world premiere on March 23, 2025 with Sergey Dogadin and the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig.

Gerald Barry’s new opera Salome breathes new life into the scandalous biblical legend – bold, surprising, and musically thrilling. Experience this world-premiere opera event in Magdeburg!