On May 10 at the Teatro dell’Elfo in Milan the ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi will perform the world premiere of Francesco Antonioni’s Da cosa nasce cosa. "Un omaggio a Bruno Munari" under the direction of Carlo Boccadoro as part of the group’s current concert season.

On May 23 in Amsterdam, the Calefax Rietkwintet together with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest under the direction of Osmo Vänskä will perform the world premiere of Luca Francesconi’s Vertical Invader.

Zodiac, twelve Lieder for voice and orchestra, a new composition by Marcello Panni on poems by Gaia Servadio, will be premiered in Florence on May 20 by the mezzo-soprano Alda Caiello and the Orchestra della Toscana, conducted by Garry Walker.

Ricordi just released a new book that contains correspondence between the Portuguese writer José Saramago, Nobel Prize laureate in literature, and the Italian composer Azio Corghi, one of the most versatile artists on the contemporary musical scene, spanning twenty years (1984-2004).

Two world premieres are coming up for Philippe Hersant in April. On April 2, 2015 Ensemble Les Temps Modernes and Yael Raanan Vandor (contralto) will perform his Chants séfarades in Le Toboggan. Philippe Hersant’s fourth string quartet Quatuor à cordes n° 4. Der gestirnte Himmel (The Starry Sky) will be played by Cypress String Quartet in San Francisco on April 10, 2015 for the first time.

Pascal Dusapin’s new piece In Vivo for solo violin will be premiered by Carolin Widmann at this year’s Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik.

On April 16 (additional performances through April 19) the Teatro Comunale in Bolzano will present the world premiere of Matteo Franceschini’s Forèst. Forèst is an opera –a Food Opera – in which the focus is food and wine.

Two important premieres are coming up for Hèctor Parra in the next weeks.