Zones de turbulences was composed in Strasbourg between July and September 2013 for the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo. The Poland Premiere takes place at September 18, 2015 at Warszaw Autumn Festival.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite composer from our reperoire. This time Jean-Frédéric Neuburger introduces Salvatore Sciarrino's Sei quartetti brevi.

Early and contemporary music will meet in an exceptional concert with Ensemble De Caelis at the Abbaye de Fontevraud on September 26, 2015. Le Graduel d’Aliénor, a liturgical book from the 13th century will be paired with Chanson de Guillaume d’Aquitaine, new work by Philippe Hersant which will have its world premiere at this event.

Starting this month, Kurtág will be composer-in-residence at one of Europe’s most prestigious orchestras.

The world premiere of Lorenzo Pagliei’s A.L.M.A. for cello and orchestra will take place on September 24 in Florence as part of the Play It! festival. The Orchestra della Toscana and the cellist Francesco Dillon will be conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta. The work takes its name from A.L.M.A. (Atacama Large Millimiter/submillimiter Array) the world’s most powerful radio telescope capable revealing aspects of space and time that are invisible through other telescopes.

After the resounding success of Das geopferte Leben, premiered only just one year ago at the Biennale de Munich, Hèctor Parra has written a new opera, which was premiered at Schwetzinger Festspiele on 22nd May, with Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, conducted by Peter Rundel, with staging by Calixto Bieito.

The fourth edition of Play It!, the concert series dedicated to the music of today presented by ORT – Orchestra della Toscana and directed by Giorgio Battistelli, will take place at the Teatro Verdi in Florence from 23 to 26 September.

In this interview hungarian composer Péter Eötvös talks about his relationship with György Kurtág and the impact on his compositions.

From 8 to 12 September, the MITO SettembreMusica Festival will dedicate a portrait of four concerts to Luca Francesconi. The program will be made up of a number of the composer’s most representative compositions for orchestra and ensemble.

The Orchestra della Toscana, conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta, will perform the world premiere of Francesco Antonioni’s Nostro mare, five short scenes for small orchestra, on 24 September. The performance will take place at the Teatro Verdi in Florence as part of the fourth edition of the Play It! Festival.