(18.9.2013) Beat Furrer’s La bianca notte for soprano, baritone and ensemble receives its premiere on 21 November at the opening concert of cresc... 2013, the Frankfurt Biennale für Moderne Musik, combined with Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu. Conducted by Brad Lubman, the performers are Tony Arnold, Holger Falk and the Ensemble Modern. Before that, his sound theatre piece FAMA and linea dell’orizzonte will be performed by Klangforum Wien at Wien modern on 3 November 2013, and the premiere of Enigma VI for a cappella chorus takes place at the Youth Choir Festival Styria cantat in Graz on 15 November.

(18.9.2013) A new orchestral piece by Philipp Maintz takes as its starting point poems by the Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz. His estudio horizontal receives its premiere on 25 October, given by the Philharmonic Orchestra Cottbus conducted by Evan Christ. In Paris the Ensemble Alternance presents a portrait concert of the composer on 14 November which includes the premiere of windinneres. lieder after rainer maria rilke for baritone and piano. A portrait CD from the Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council) has just been released on the WERGO label.

(4.2.2014) Thomas Daniel Schlee’s third organ concerto was commissioned by the Camerata Salzburg. The classical characterisation of the hours of the day, the “Horai”, are the inspiration for the twelve concise movements of this concerto for organ and chamber orchestra, composed with support from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. The premiere in Salzburg on 7 and 9 March will be conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, and the soloist is Christian Schmitt.

With her chamber music piece Tre acque con ombre for five instruments, Charlotte Seither has created a work for the renowned “Milano Musica” festival 2013. In this, fantasy in sound and brilliance are required of the soloists.

The BBC Proms is undeniably one of the world’s greatest music festivals and this year was a special one for Faber Music’s composers, who were featured prominently with seven premieres.

Beat Furrer’s song cycle “Canti della tenebra” after Dino Campana receives its premiere at the Ultima Festival Oslo. A new work for large orchestra strane costellazioni has been composed for the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie.

(4.6.2013) Two compositions by Charlotte Seither explore vocal sound. Charlotte Seither has composed licht und namen, scored for 12-part double choir, for the Norddeutsche Figuralchor, to be premiered at a concert marking the 850th anniversary of Kloster Loccum (Loccum Monastery) conducted by Jörg Straube on 23 June 2013. With her work Language of Leaving for large orchestra and 24 voices, Charlotte Seither is one of this year’s commissioned composers at the BBC Proms in London. The work receives its premiere on 28 August 2013 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in the Royal Albert Hall, London. The conductor is Josep Pons. The composer is also featured in the Proms Plus Portrait series with her chamber music works.