“Vimbayi Kaziboni conducted with fluidity and inexhaustible precision, at once clear and ebullient [while] his musicians played with evident relish and consummate virtuosity.”
-Financial Times
2024-2025 events
when: September 6, 2024 | 7PM
what: A Devil in the Cathedral
who: Musikfestival Bern
where: Berne Minster | Bern, Switzerland
music:
George Lewis: A Devil in the Cathedral (world premiere)
Daniel Glaus, organ
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when: September 15, 2024 | 6PM
what: Festival MITO: A House of Call
who: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della Rai
where: Auditorium Rai | Turin, Italy
music:
Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call (Italian premiere)
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when: September 17, 2024 | 9PM
what: Festival MITO: A House of Call
who: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della Rai
where: Teatro Arcimboldi | Milan, Italy
music:
Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call
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when: October 20, 2024 | 5PM
what: Donaueschinger Musiktage Closing Concert
who: SWR Sinfonieorchester
where: Baarsporthalle | Donaueschingen, Germany
music:
Sara Glojnarić: new work for orchestra (world premiere)
Francisco Alvarado: Rev - Play - Fwd (world premiere)
Chaya Czernowin: Unforeseen Dusk: Bones into Wings (world premiere)
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when: October 25, 2024 | 7PM
what: strange bird
who: Klangforum Wien
where: Wiener Konzerthaus Mozart-Saal | Vienna, Austria
music:
Clara Iannotta: vacant lot (strange bird)
Brendan Champeaux: New Work (world premiere)
Yiran Zhao: fictional nonfiction II (world premiere)
George Lewis: Disputato
Polina Korobkova: New Work (world premiere)
Shiqi Geng: Ma nostalgie profonde et mes problèmes et complexités insolubles du temps perdu (world premiere)
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when: November 3, 2024 | 7PM
what: Tower of Babel II
who: Klangforum Wien
where: Kirche St. Elisabeth | Berlin, Germany
music:
Juste Janulyte: Clessirda
Farangis Nurulla: Betwixt & Between or rivière assoiffée
Maxim Kolomiiets: ...soft glass…
Oxana Omelchuk: Wow and flutter
Turkar Gasimzada: Qurama
Vladimir Gorlinsky: Sun.Disc.Minotaurus
Vladimir Tarnopolski: Focault´s Pendulum
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when: November 10, 2024 | 8PM
what: Nas/Haas
who: Ensemble Modern
where: Theater aan de Parade | ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
music:
Jeffrey Mumford: through a stillness brightening (Dutch premiere)
Mayke Nas: Music with Movements and Interludes (world premiere)
Georg Friedrich Haas: weiter und weiter und weiter… (Dutch premiere)
Jagdish Mistry, violin
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when: November 17, 2024 | 8PM
what: Nas/Haas
who: Ensemble Modern
where: Alte Oper, Mozart Saal | Frankfurt, Germany
music:
Jeffrey Mumford: through a stillness brightening (German premiere)
Mayke Nas: Music with Movements and Interludes (German premiere)
Georg Friedrich Haas: weiter und weiter und weiter…
Jagdish Mistry, violin
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when: November 21, 2024 | 7:30PM
what: Wien Modern Festival: Erste Bank Concert
who: Klangforum Wien
where: Wiener Konzerthaus | Vienna, Austria
music:
Justė Janulytė: Clessidra (Austrian premiere)
Nina Šenk: November Night (World premiere, winner of Erste Bank Composition Award 2024)
Manos Tsangaris: The Pizzicato Mystery (Austrian premiere)
Vladimir Tanopolski: Foucault’s Pendulum
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when: November 25, 2024 | 8PM
what: Festival d'Automne à Paris: A House of Call
who: Ensemble Modern Orchestra
where: Philharmonie de Paris | Paris, France
music:
Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call: My Imaginary Notebook (French premiere)
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when: November 30, 2024 | 8PM
what: Happy Birthday, Lojze Lebič and Vinko Globokar!
who: Ljubljana New Music Forum
where: Slovenian Philharmonic Hall | Ljubljana, Slovenia
music:
Lojze Lebič: kons a
Lojze Lebič: kons b
Olga Neuwirth: Quasare/Pulsare II
Fabio Nieder: Four Slovenian traditional songs from Trieste Region
Vinko Globokar: Rêve d’un touriste slovène au Wallis
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when: December 6, 2024 | 8PM
what: Shouting Forever into the Receiver: Music of the Black Avant-Garde
who: Boston Conservatory at Berklee ContraBAND
where: Boston Conservatory Studio T401 | Boston, MA
music:
to be announced
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when: January 15-16, 2025 | 7:30 PM
what: Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Claire Chase
who: Musikkollegium Winterthur
where: Stadthaus | Winterthur, Switzerland
music:
Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro Pezzi per Orchestra, no. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to “Egmont” op. 84
Dai Fujikura: Double Concerto for Violin and Flute (world premiere)
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no. 8 in G major, op. 88
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Claire Chase, flute
Post-concert discussion on January 16 with Lion Gallusser at Park Hotel
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when: January 17, 2025 | 6:30PM
what: #TGIF – Meet Vimbayi Kaziboni
who: Musikkollegium Winterthur
where: Stadthaus | Winterthur, Switzerland
music:
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no. 8 in G major, op. 88
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when: February 5, 2025
what: Crash
who: Klangforum Wien with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
where: Stuttgart, Germany
music:
Alex Paxton: new work (world premiere)
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when: February 16, 2025
what: The New Viennese School, part 1
who: Klangforum Wien
where: Wigmore Hall | London, England
music:
Arnold Schönberg: 3 Pieces for chamber orchestra, op. 11 (arr. Richard Dünser)
Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Arnold Schönberg)
Alexander von Zemlinsky: 6 Songs after Poems by Maurice Maeterlinck op. 13
Arnold Schönberg: 5 Orchestra Pieces (arr. Greissle)
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when: February 17, 2025
what: The New Viennese School, part 2
who: Klangforum Wien
where: Wigmore Hall | London, England
music:
Franz Schreier: Der Wind
Hans Eisler: Divertimento for Wind Quintet
Ferruccio Busoni: Berceuse Élégiaque (arr. Erwin Stein)
Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire
Barbara Kozelj, mezzo-soprano
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when: February 25, 2025
what: impuls festival 2025
who: Klangforum Wien
where: Helmut List Halle | Graz, Austria
music:
premiering new works by Damián Gorandi, Jieun Jeong, Piyawat Louilarpprasert Njabulo Phungula, and Kelley Sheehan
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when: February 28, 2025 | 7PM
what: Crash
who: Klangforum Wien with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
where: Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Saal | Vienna, Austria
music:
Alex Paxton: new work (Austrian premiere)
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when: March 6, 2025 | 7:30PM
what: Miya Masaoka Portrait Concert
who: International Contemporary Ensemble (I.C.E)
where: Miller Theater | New York, NY
music:
Miya Masaoka: The Dust and the Noise
Miya Masaoka: The Horizon Leans Forward
Miya Masaoka: new work (world premiere)
Miya Masaoka: Mapping a Joyful Noise
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when: March 14, 2025 | 8PM
what: New Works for Orchestra
who: Boston Conservatory at Berklee Composers Orchestra
where: Boston Conservatory Studio T401 | Boston, MA
music:
new works by Boston Conservatory composition students
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when: April 3, 2025 | 7:30PM
what: Chineke! US Tour
who: Chineke! Orchestra
where: Granada Theater | Santa Barbara, CA
music:
Valerie Coleman: 7 O’Clock Shout
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Sussex Landscape
Franz Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
Brian Nabors: Pulse
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor, op.8
Aaron Azunda Akugbo, trumpet
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when: April 4, 2025 | 8PM
what: Chineke! US Tour
who: Chineke! Orchestra
where: Renée & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall | Orange County, CA
music:
Valerie Coleman: 7 O’Clock Shout
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Sussex Landscape
Franz Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
Brian Nabors: Pulse
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor, op.8
Aaron Azunda Akugbo, trumpet
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when: April 9, 2025 | 8PM
what: Chineke! Tour Program
who: Chineke! Orchestra
where: Royal Festival Hall | London, England
music:
Valerie Coleman: 7 O’Clock Shout
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Sussex Landscape
Franz Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
Brian Nabors: Pulse
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor, op.8
Aaron Azunda Akugbo, trumpet
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when: May 2, 2025 | 8PM
what: TRANSFORMATIONS
who: Boston Conservatory at Berklee contraBAND
where: Boston Conservatory Studio T401 | Boston, MA
music:
to be announced
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when: June 3-4, 2025
what: International Conducting Competition Rotterdam Jury
where: De Doelen, Jurriaanse Zaal | Rotterdam, Netherlands
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when: July 7, 2025 | 8PM
what: Recycling Concerto
who: Ensemble Reflektor
where: Elbphilharmonie | Hamburg, Germany
music:
Gregor Mayrhofer: Recycling Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7
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when: July 25, 2025 | 8:30PM
what: Salzburg Festival: Macbeth
who: Klangforum Wien
where: Kollegienkirche | Salzburg, Austria
music:
Salvatore Sciarrino: Macbeth
Cody Quattlebaum, Macbeth
Iris van Wijen, A Sergeant/Fleance/A Hired Murderer/A Guard
Davide Giangregorio, Duncan/A Courtier/Macduff
Cordula Bürgi, chorus master
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when: August 2, 2025 | TBA
what: Darmstädter Ferienkurse: CORE
who: Darmstädter Ferienkurse Ensemble
where: TBA | Darmstadt, Germany
music:
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphony no. 2 “True and Eternal Bliss”
Chaya Czernowin: CORE (world premiere)
Claire Chase, flute
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when: September 6, 2025 | TBA
what: Lucerne Festival: CORE
who: Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
where: KKL Luzern | Lucerne, Switzerland
music:
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphony no. 2 “True and Eternal Bliss”
Chaya Czernowin: CORE (world premiere)
Claire Chase, flute