Quatuor Diotima will premiere Marc Monnet’s eighth string quartet in Abbaye de Noirlac on July 19. Marc Monnet explains how he thought about this new piece in the context of the location of its world premiere.

London-based composer Dai Fujikura talks about his relationship to Japan and his new orchestra piece Rare Gravity, which will be premiered in Tokyo by Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the baton of Kazuki Yamada on July 10.

On July 26, 2014, Samir Odeh-Tamimi’s new work Mansur for large choir, four brass players, and two percussionists will see its world premiere at this year’s Salzburger Festspiele. In our interview, the composer tells us more about this composition. He also talks about Sufism, improvisation and his experiences in Brazil.

After many years Alfredo Casella’s La donna serpente (1928-31) returns to the stage. Maestro Fabio Luisi will conduct the performances in Martina Franca on July 18, 20, and 26. The production is made by Festival della Valle d'Itria and the Fondazione Teatro Regio of Turin.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite work from our catalogs. This time: Fabien Lévy writes about Stèle by Gérard Grisey.

On July 7, Vinko Globokar celebrates his 80th birthday.Five years ago, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Pierre Boulez, Sylvain Cambreling and André Richard send these birthday wishes.

In 2009, Ricordi published a brochure on Vinko Globokar with English, French and German texts by Pierre Boulez, Sylvain Cambreling, André Richard, Ekkehard Jost, Clytus Gottwald and many more.

The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence pays homage to film and stage director Patrice Chéreau, who died last October, with a concert by the Orchestre de Paris under the direction of Paavo Järvi to take place on July 5 at the Grand Théâtre de Provence.

Pianist and composer Jean-Frédéric Neuburger will have his first string quartet premiered on July 20th in Abbaye de Valloires in northern France. Written for the four outstanding performers of the newly formed Quatuor Strada (Pierre Fouchenneret and Sullimann Altmayer, violins, Lise Berthaud, viola, François Salque, cello) the work will be performed in a program with two masterpieces from Beethoven.

6 composers, 3 singers, 3 instrumentalists, and 1 conductor: Out at S.E.A. is a joint project supervised by Péter Eötvös, Luca Francesconi and Balázs Horváth and supported by the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation and the Budapest Music Center. After performances in Budapest and Milan the French premiere takes places at IRCAM in Paris on July 9.