The Milano Musica Festival will feature a new work by Emanuele Casale, commissioned for the festival and to be performed by the mdi ensemble on November 13 at the Piccolo Teatro Studio.

The Italian premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Eudousi for baritone and ensemble will be performed on November 30 in Rome at the Filarmonica Romana (Sala Casella) by the baritone Carlo Miccioli and the Roman Vlad Ensemble under the direction of Gabriele Bonolis.

On 15 November in Cologne as part of the WDR concert program Musik der Zeit, the Rundfunkchor Köln under the direction of Rupert Huber will perform the world premiere of Fabio Nieder’s Thümmel oder die Verlöschung des Wortes. Der Anfang. Die Mitte. Das Ende for mixed choir, three accordionists and three percussionists. The work was commissioned by the WDR.

François Meïmoun’s third string quartet will be premiered on November 24 at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord by the Quatuor Ardeo, with whom the composer has had a close relationship for years.

Following the success of the opera The Second Woman, which was awarded the Grand Prix de la Critique “Meilleure création musicale d’un compositeur français” (best musical production by a French composer) for the 2010/2011 season, composer Frédéric Verrières and director Guillaume Vincent decided to further pursue their collaboration with a spectacle entitled Mimi, “freely inspired” by Giacomo Puccini’s opera La bohème.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite composer from our catalogs. This time: Francesco Antonioni writes about Azio Corghi’s Divara.

Eight Invocations to the Lunar Phases, a cycle for viola and piano by László Tihanyi, was published by EMB in 2001, but remained unperformed until now. Eight Invocations will see its world premiere in Florence’s Teatro Della Pergola on 15th November, and the Hungarian premiere will follow by nine days. In spring 2015 the piece will be performed several times in the US at distinguished venues such as the Morgan Library in New York and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, where Béla Bartók and József Szigeti gave a recital in 1940. A performance in Istanbul is pending.

The 2014 Milano Musica Festival, this year dedicated to Fausto Romitelli, has commissioned a new work from Riccardo Nova. The piece, Yagé Howl for ensemble and electronics, will be performed by Repertorio Zero at the Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato on November 15.

Descdesesasf., Trio-rito for violin, viola, cello, and external sounds (1995/2013) will be premiered, in a new version with electronics, on November 8 at the Conservatory in Venice. The work is a homage to Robert Schumann and Paul Celan.

On November 14, as part of the celebrations to inaugurate the reopening of Teatro Zandonai in Rovereto, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, under the direction of Giacomo Sagripanti, will perform the world premiere of a new piece commissioned from Matteo Franceschini: Ritratto di scena, a homage to the composer’s fellow Trentino citizen Riccardo Zandonai.