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18-Apr-2012: Lucerne Festival 2012: Music – A Question of Faith?
LUCERNE FESTIVAL in Summer 2012 (8 August – 15 September) will focus on the theme of “Faith.” For centuries European composers wrote their works almost exclusively for the church, for liturgies, for holy feast days, for devotion—music that was meant to uplift. Even Johann Sebastian Bach declared that he created his music for the greater glory of God alone. But musicians thereafter began to follow a different path, directing their gaze no longer necessarily upward but rather inward. During the 19th century, music itself ultimately became a kind of religion. The concert hall developed into a temple of bourgeois art-worship, and composers came to be regarded as prophets, if not saints. - more...
15-Mar-2012: ECPNM hosts 5th European competition for live-electronic music projects 2012
ECPNM, the European Conference of Promoters of New Music, hosts the fifth European competition for the composition and interpretation of live-electronic music projects. The deadline for entry of projects is 1 April 2012. - more...
15-Mar-2012: Line up announced for Edinburgh International Festival 2012
Launching the Edinburgh International Festival programme for 2012 (Thursday 9 August to Sunday 2 September), Festival Director Jonathan Mills today said, ‘Every year, since 1947 we have set out to create an event to inspire and uplift audiences. In the words of Sir John Falconer, Lord Provost of Edinburgh at the time, the Festival exists to “provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit”. In hard times as well as good the Festival remains one of the world’s most important examples of the power of culture and the arts to transform individual ambitions and lives. - more...
08-Feb-2012: Berliner Festspiele: appeal for a worldwide reading on 20 March 2012 for Liu Xiaobo
The international literature festival Berlin (ilb), one of the festivals of Berliner Festspiele calls on cultural institutions, schools, radio stations and interested parties to participate in a worldwide reading of prose and poems by the Chinese author and 2010 Nobel Peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo on 20 March 2012. - more...
01-Feb-2012: Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre calls for applications: 1 March deadline approaching
The Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre calls for applications for participation for its 2012 festival edition (5-15 October 2012) under the motto “NEW!”. It celebrates works by artists from all over the world, but priority will be given to emerging and mid career artists. NEW! is for artists who want to take risks and challenge new audiences. It is a voyage of discovery, an adventure for your artistic concepts. - more...
25-Jan-2012: New artistic management of the Music Biennale Zagreb
Eight very successful festivals, more accurately since the last century’s 19th Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ) in 1997, and all the way to our 50th anniversary MBZ in 2011, Berislav Šipuš, in his function of the artistic director, created and realized the artistic content, transforming the impossible – dreams and fantasies into reality, into the festival programme and unforgettable experiences. - more...
23-Jan-2012: New Artistic Coordinator at Ghent Festival of Flanders
Ghent
Press release - After five beautiful years at Ghent Flanders Festival, the talented Jelle Dierickx makes an international career move. The 2012 edition will be coordinated by the promising young musicologist Isaline Claeys. - more...
11-Jan-2012: Berliner Festspiele: Thomas Oberender and his new artistic team introduce themselves
[Press release by Berliner Festspiele; Berlin, 10 January 2012] An Edition, a new homepage for our website and a new image designed by the Swiss studio CRR mark the Berliner Festspiele’s new beginning under the artistic directorship of Thomas Oberender. - more...
09-Jan-2012: LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY 2012: application deadline 20 January
For 2012 the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY has once again created a multifaceted programme to equip highly gifted young instrumentalists from around the world with the knowledge and skills they need to perform music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Framing it are two symphony concerts to be conducted by Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, which will juxtapose key works of modernism – Arnold Schoenberg’s Expressionist monodrama “Erwartung” and Charles Ives’s Fourth Symphony – with more recent compositions by Peter Eötvös, Jonathan Harvey, Tristan Murail, and this year’s composer-in-residence, Philippe Manoury. The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra and Pierre Boulez will perform one additional concert, following their stay in Lucerne, in Paris (Salle Pleyel) on 9 September 2012. - more...
04-Jan-2012: Festival Ljubljana 2012: celebrating 60th anniversary
The Festival Ljubljana is in full preparation of its 60th anniversary, which will be celebrated in 2012. The celebration will start with the opening of the festival on 20 June in Cankarjev dom, with the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra, conducted by the world-famous Sir Simon Rattle and performing works by J. Brahms, A. von Webern and R. Schumann. - more...
29-Nov-2011: Padovani wins ECPNM European Competition for Live Electronic Music Projects 2011
The Italian/Brasilian composer José Henrique Padovani has won the ECPNM European Competition for Live Electronic Music Projects 2011 with his composition “Aviagem e o rio”. The competition was open to works for orchestra and live-electronics. - more...
28-Nov-2011: Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 2012: A journey to “the beauty of the unknown”
Artistic director Alessandro De Marchi presented the programme of the Innsbruck Festival 2012. The 36th Innsbruck Festival will feature performances of operas by Provenzale, Bontempi, Monteverdi and D. Scarlatti, with a special focus on the “beauty of the unknown”. Tickets for the 2012 Festival can be purchased from Saturday 26 November. - more...
21-Nov-2011: LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano in 2011 is dedicated to Franz Liszt
Whoever wishes to gain an overview of the art of piano music should pay a visit to Lake Lucerne in November. LUCERNE FESTIVAL at the Piano annually brings together the outstanding representatives of the pianistic guild: legendary masters and promising young artists, philosophers at the keyboard and the celebrated virtuosos. The latter will be particularly in demand in 2011, since this year’s programming (21-27 November) will of course centre around the anniversary of Franz Liszt, the phenomenal pianist, innovative composer, and influential teacher whose 200th birthday will be celebrated. - more...
30-Sep-2011: Audition call for participation in No Borders Orchestra tour 2012 launched
The audition call for participation in the No Borders Orchestra (NBO) tour in 2012 has been launched. The No Borders Orchestra aims at the establishment of a symphonic orchestra that gathers the best musicians from the former Yugoslavia territory. It is a cross border project with cultural impacts based on universal human values and focused on further progress of social, environmental and cultural awareness. Deadline: 1 November. - more...
28-Sep-2011: Nordic music festivals meet in Reykjavik from 5-7 October 2011
A conference of music festivals called "Nordic-Baltic Festival Meeting" will take place from 5-7 October in Reykjavik/Iceland at Harpa, Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre. The conference is the first of its kind and its participants come from the Nordic and Baltic countries. Representatives from each country present their country‘s various festivals and the purpose of the conference is to strengthen ties and investigate further co-operation between festivals as well as being educative and informative. - more...
27-Sep-2011: Baalbeck International Festival spreads cultural image of Lebanon
The 2011 edition of the Baalbeck International Festival was a great success. Despite the political situation which discouraged tourists from spending their summer in Lebanon, the high-quality programme attracted a numerous audience. The festival spread over July and offered a vast diversity of performances. - more...
26-Sep-2011: Giovanni Antonini appointed Artistic Director of Festival Wratislavia Cantans as of 2013
From 2013 on Giovanni Antonini is going to be the Artistic Director of the International Festival Wratislavia Cantans – an oratorio and cantata festival which has been taking place in Wroclaw, Poland for 46 years. Paul McCreesh has been the festival’s Artistic Director since 2006 and he is going to hold the position until 2012. Andrzej Kosendiak is the International Festival Wratislavia Cantans’ General Director. - more...
13-Sep-2011: Music Masters on Air: “We have to do more for young composers”
Ten festivals from all over Europe have joined forces in the festival collaboration project MusMA – Music Masters on Air: European Broadcasting Festival. After one year of cooperation, the initiative shares its ambitions and first results in a newly released video clip. “We have to do more for young composers,” stresses Jan Briers, representative of the Flanders Festival, initiator of MusMA. - more...
07-Sep-2011: Successful finish to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2011
On Sunday, 28August, the 26th annual Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (SHMF) concluded its season to much adulation with a closing concert at the Kieler Schloss. After 130 concerts and 5 Music Festivals in the Countryside, this year’s festival came to a successful end. - more...
05-Sep-2011: 46th International Festival Wratislavia Cantans running from 2-18 September
"Wratislavia Cantans" is one of the most prestigious festivals in Europe and takes place in the beautiful city of Wroclaw and the surrounding area of Lower Silesia. For over forty years the festival has celebrated vocal and choral music of all kinds and has been a showcase for outstanding performing artists from all over the world. The programme of the 46th edition (2-18 September 2011) is built around three different themes. - more...
02-Sep-2011: Santander: plaque commemorates 60 years of Santander International Festival
The Regional President, Ignacio Diego; the Mayor of Santander, Iñigo de la Serna; and the Director of the Santander International Festival (FIS), José Luis Ocejo, uncovered a plaque on Thursday, 1 September 2011, on the Porticada Square in Santander to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the festival, which is "among the elite" of European festivals. - more...
31-Aug-2011: Imagine Paradise at the KlaraFestival: Man between utopia and reality
On 1 September 2011, the opening night of the KlaraFestival takes place with free concerts in and near Brussels’ central station. The Brussels edition of the Flanders Festival International is running until 16 September. - more...
30-Aug-2011: Berliner Festspiele celebrated on 27 August with 4,000 visitors
10 years of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, 10 years of Artistic Director Joachim Sartorius, 60 years of the Berliner Festspiele and the completion of the renovations to Haus der Berliner Festspiele - more...
26-Aug-2011: Lucerne Festival Academy kicks off
Just a week ago, 130 or so LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY participants from all over the world arrived in Lucerne, and on 2 September they will perform their first symphonic concert with a programme traversing a century of the history of French music, from Maurice Ravel to Marc-André Dalbavie. The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, founded by Pierre Boulez in 2004, gives the LUCERNE FESTIVAL its own educational institution for highly gifted young musicians, who are specially initiated into the performance of 20th and 21st century music. - more...
26-Aug-2011: 60th edition of Santander International Festival draws to a close
The programme of the 60th Santander International Festival was composed of an intense schedule of summer events that try to elicit the historical weight of the European tradition with future cross-cultural appeal looming in the new Europe. From 1 to 26 August, audiences could enjoy over sixty artistic proposals at the Festival Palace of Cantabria and in other historic settings. The Santander Festival confirms its important position in Spain’s and Europe’s cultural life: with its diverse programme including grand concert versions of operas; ballet; theatre productions; recitals and chamber music concerts; as well as exhibitions and discussion rounds, the festival – as in previous years – strikes a balance between the most traditional shows and the most avant-garde and innovative styles. - more...
23-Aug-2011: Stresa Festival celebrates 50th anniversary
This year – 2011 – the Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore (Stresa Music Festival) is celebrating its 50th anniversary (21 May to 4 September). For the last five years it has been under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic. - more...
05-Aug-2011: Magic Moments at the 2011 Innsbruck Festival from 10 to 28 August
Innsbruck 10.8. - 28-8.
With a focus on baroque music from German lands at the 2011 Innsbruck Festival, artistic director Alessandro de Marchi also throws light on revolutionary political and social events that impacted on the lives and work of the musicians of that time: Georg Philipp Telemann, for example, was the first composer to self-confidently represent the rising bourgeoisie in cities like Frankfurt and Hamburg with his music. The imposing church music and magnificent operas by George Frederic Handel (both in Italy and in London) and Johann Adolph Hasse (in Italy, Dresden and for the Habsburgs in Austria) on the other hand, reflected the refined rule of the church and nobility. A composer of the likes of Heinrich Schütz used mighty and splendid musical means to raise voices in song against the Thirty Years’ War and its repercussions while Dietrich Buxtehude provided the believers of the Reformed faith in Germany’s upper north with music for contemplation. Finally, Johann Sebastian Bach set the conditions of musical performance practice against new artistic and intellectual demands that apply to this day. - more...
27-Jul-2011: Orfeo ed Eurídice in the Festival Castell de Peralada
Festival Castell de Peralada, 29 -31 July 2011
“Orfeo ed Eurídice”, the new performance of La Fura dels Baus under the production of the Festival Castell de Peralada, will open on 29 July 2011 at 22.00 pm. The performance will be played again on Sunday, 31 July 2011. - more...
28-Jul-2011: Festival Ljubljana: A tribute to the great Franz Liszt
Križanke Knight's Hall, Ljubljana
Festival Ljubljana supports young Slovene artists and pays tribute to the great Franz Liszt
Festival Ljubljana is a proud supporter of the international project Music Masters on Air, or MusMA, which was initiated two years ago by ten European festivals in order to help performers and composers of the younger generations promote their work. This year, the participating artists will also mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great composer and pianist Franz Liszt. - more...
27-Jul-2011: Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre announces 2011 Georgian Theatre Showcase
The third edition of Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre takes place from 29 September until 16 October 2011, in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tbilisi International (in short) is a very young festival. Established in 2009, the Festival aims to attract creative, challenging, innovative artists from the Far East to the Far West. Tbilisi International brings them together in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, cherishing their artistic ideas and creating an unforgettable experience. - more...
25-Jul-2011: Czech Dreams 2011 were successfully kicked off
On 2 July 2011 in Adorf/Germany, the festival opening concert of the international part of the third edition of the international cultural project Czech Dreams 2011 took place under the auspices of Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic, Jiří Besser. In his speech, he emphasised the scope and exceptionality of the project as well as its enormous significance for strengthening the contacts between the regions and collaboration in Europe. - more...
20-Jul-2011: MusMA Atelier for contemporary composers and performers in Granada great success
From 27 until 30 June 2011, the first European MusMA Atelier for contemporary composers and performers took place in Granada. MusMA – Music Masters on Air: European Broadcasting Festival – is a platform for new music created for young composers. Composers of the new generation, masters of the new era, take a flight to present their work abroad. European Festivals join forces to develop a platform to welcome this new, unknown contemporary music. 10 - and soon 15 - major European festivals, with the support of the European Union, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the European Festivals Association (EFA), pitch these contemporary composers beyond the borders, straight into the air. - more...
18-Jul-2011: BELEF festival opens its 20th edition in Belgrade
The 20th Belgrade Summer Festival BELEF, which will last until August 7 and comprise various programmes, started late on 15 July 2011 by a classical concert staged in the concert hall of Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment. - more...
12-Jul-2011: Innsbruck Festival of Early Music announces International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera
97 young singers from 34 countries will attend the 2nd International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti 2011!
The 2nd International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti 2011, held by the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, has drawn a strong response from young singers worldwide. Out of the more than 120 applications, 97 young singers from 34 countries and five continents were chosen to participate in the 1st round. From 20 to 25 August, female singers (born 1980 and later) and male singers (born 1978 and later), who come from “A” as in Armenia to “U” as in USA, will face the jury in this Academy Project. - more...
28-Jun-2011: Festival Ljubljana invites for concert on 3 July celebrating Slovenia’s 20th anniversary
Slovenia and Croatia are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the states. During those 20 years, Slovenia realised its long dreams and successfully paved its way into the European Union; the country’s neighbour Croatia is looking forward to be part of our EU very soon. The Festival Ljubljana would like to underline the foundation and invites to a special gala event on 3 July 2011 at 9pm. - more...
09-Jun-2011: 'George Enescu' Festival with "new identity" for its 20th edition
Cultural exchange, excellence and new discoveries rank among the hallmarks of this September’s 20th ‘George Enescu’ Festival (1-25 September 2011). The biennial event offers a programme as rich and diverse as any on the international festival circuit, its artistic scope widened this year thanks to heavyweight government investment and distinctive repertoire choices. Romania’s resurgent capital will host many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors during its late summer festival time. It’s also set to stage performances of works by great names in Romanian music and outstanding talents among the nation’s emerging cohort of composers. In short, the Festival packs the programme punch and artistic armoury required to attract worldwide attention. - more...
08-Jun-2011: EUROPEAN MusMA ATELIER* for contemporary composers and performers in Granada
“MusMA”, Music Masters on Air: European Broadcasting Festival, is an international collaboration project of some 10 major European festivals initiated by the Flanders Festival Brussels. MusMA was brought to life in the framework of the project “FestLab for Creativity and Innovation” of the European Festivals Association (EFA) in 2009. From 27 until 30 June 2011, the first EUROPEAN MusMA ATELIER* for contemporary composers and performers takes place in Granada. - more...
06-Jun-2011: International Izmir Festival celebrates 25th anniversary
The International İzmir Festival organized by the İzmir Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSEV) uninterruptedly since 1987 is 25 years old. The International İzmir Festival, which is a respected member of the European Festivals Association, takes place June 20 – July 21, 2011. - more...
30-May-2011: China Shanghai Arts Festival delegation visits Vilnius Festival
From 30 May until 2 June 2011 a delegation of the China Shanghai Arts Festival visits the Vilnius Festival. The guests participate at the festival opening performance on 31 May. The meeting symbolises the close collaboration ties that have been set up over the past years. - more...
