Vanessa Porter: RSO-debut in Hamburg 

On 13 February 2025 the percussionist Vanessa Porter will return to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg making her debut with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Vienna under the baton of Bas Wiegers. She will interpret Francesca Verunelli‘s From Scratch, a piece she already has premiered at the Wittener Tagen für Neue Kammermusik in 2024.

Further pieces of the programme will be Mark Andre‘s Vier Echographien for orchestra and Bernhard Gander’s Blood Beat. The concert will take place in the context of the Elbphilharmonie Visions Festival – a biennale presenting music of the 21st century which will be presented in Hamburg in February. Vanessa Porter has been ECHO Rising Stars – Artist of the season 2022/23 and has been invited to the Elbphilharmonie already twice.

(published on 30 January 2025)

Sarah Maria Sun: Concerts in California

On 7 February 2025 the soprano Sarah Maria Sun will make her debut with the Camerata Pacifica in a concert at the Music Academy in Santa Barbara, California.

Further concert dates are:
9 February 2025, Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks
11 February 2025, The Huntington, San Marino
13 February 2025, Colburn School, Los Angeles

The programme presents Kurt Weill‘s Lied des Lotterieagenten from Der Silbersee, Die stille Stadt, Der Abschiedsbrief, It Never Was You and Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot lunaire

(published on 29 January 2025)

Holger Falk: USA concert tour 

On 5 February 2025 the baritone Holger Falk will perform Lieder by Franz Schubert and Hanns Eisler with the pianist Steffen Schleiermacher at the Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington D.C.. Subsequently, he will sing concerts presenting the unique baroque programme Il Gondoliere Veneziano together with the ensemble nuovo aspetto in Florida, NYC and Connecticut:

7 February 2025, Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville, Florida
9 February 2025, Music Before 1800, Corpus Christi Church, New York City
11 February 2025, Jorgensen Center, University of Connecticut, Connecticut

 The gondoliere programme will be performed in the USA for the first time.

(published on 28 January 2025)

Tora Augestad: world premiere in Bergen

On 25 January 2025 the mezzo-soprano Tora Augestad will sing the new work Áneš-Ovllá by the Norwegian composer Andreas Gundersen at Troldsalen in Troldhaugen, Bergen. The BIT20 Ensemble will perform this concert together with her. The new composition has been commissioned by the KODE Museum in Bergen, where Andreas Gundersen is an artist in residence. Tora Augestad is a regular guest in her hometown Bergen, recent concert performances let her again to the Bergen International Festival and to the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. 

(published on 14 January 2025)