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Vanessa Porter: Solo-Concert MaerzMusik
On 28 March 2026, the percussionist Vanessa Porter will present Samir Odeh-Tamimi’s new piece Éndropía for percussion solo, live-electronics and video projections at the Radialsystem Berlin at MaerzMusik and will make her debut as soloist at this renowned contemporary festival. Andrei Cucu will be the responsible for the sound direction and video projections. The successful world premiere of this piece has been presented in February 2026 by the Eclat Festival at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart. In artistic processes, entropy is significant for the balance between structure and dissolution, order and chaos. These contrasting elements converge in εντροπία to form a polyrhythmic, multisensory performance.
(published on 25 March 2026)
Sofia Jernberg: Premiere No! in Vienna
On 27 March 2026, the vocal artist Sofia Jernberg will perform the Austrian premiere of Chaya Czernowin’s No! A Lament for the Innocent at the Musikverein Wien. Sofia will make her debut with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien in the musical direction of Maxime Pascal who already led the world premiere in Cologne in 2025 to great acclaim. The second soloist will be the soprano Keren Motseri and further works on the programme will be Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Nikolai Rimskij-Korsakov’s Scheherazade Op. 35. In the current season No! has already been premiered successfully with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop in Katowice as well as with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Alan Gilbert in Paris.
(published on 24 March 2026)
THE PRESENT: Osterfestival Tirol
On 27 March 2026, the vocal ensemble THE PRESENT will present three world premieres by Catherine LAMB, Günther ZECHBERGER and Hannes KERSCHBAUMER at the Osterfestival Tirol - Salzlager Hall. These new compositions will be intertwined with early music works: Sulpitia Cesis’ O Crux Splendidior, Giovanni Legrenzi’s Lumi, potete piangere, Samuel Scheidt’s Christ lag in Todesbanden, Johann Theile’s Gott, hilf mir, Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere, John Bennet’s Weep, o mine eyes, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Stabat Mater and Johann Hermann Schein’s Die mit Tränen säen. The singers will be Hanna Herfurtner & Olivia Stahn (sopranos), Amélie Saadia & Bernadette Beckermann (altos), Tim Karweick & Pedro Matos (tenors), Florian Hille & Stefan Andelkovic (baritones). The basso continuo will be played by Mira Lange (organ) and Mathis Mayr (viola da gamba, cello). THE PRESENT already performed to great acclaim at Musik Plus / Salzlager Hall in January 2024 presenting their extraordinary a-cappella programme A Theatre for the Ears.
(published on 23 March 2026)
Sara Hershkowitz: Salome with LA Phil
On 24 March 2026, the US-American coloratura-soprano Sara Hershkowitz will perform the role of The Queen in Gerald Barry’s opera Salome making her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut in her hometown Los Angeles. Thomas Adès will conduct the LA Phil New Music Group in this US-premiere of Salome which is presented in the Green Umbrella Series. Further singer soloists on stage will be Vincent Casagrande (The Prisoner), Justin Hopkins (The Young Syrian), Karl Huml (The Soldier), Alison Scherzer (Salome) and TIMUR (The King). Singing the role of the Queen, Sara Hershkowitz can once again demonstrate her great coloratura qualities.
(published on 20 March 2026)
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