After Al Asr, composed for the Arod Quartet, which eventually made its way to the greatest concert halls, Benjamin Attahir explores once again a genre that he has previously championed most admirably. It is now the turn of the Van Kuijk Quartet, commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris (world premiere on 20 January) and the Berlin Konzerthaus (national premiere next season), to perform Al Dhikrâ, a musical testament to the young composer’s ever-intense poetic inspiration: 

Premiere of the new orchestral work by Baptiste Trotignon, Anima, by the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn

The composer Luis de Pablo passed away on October 10 in Madrid at the age of 91. 

A dive into the New York of the industrial revolution, with the extraordinary destiny of Nikola Tesla, inhabited by his revolutionary visions on electricity. Writer Jean Echenoz adapts his novel for the stage and Philippe Hersant premiered his third opera, for this world premiere commissioned by the Opéra-Comique. He tells us a little more below:

Le samedi 30 octobre Partita II et Tensio de Philippe Manoury seront joué dans le cadre du Offbeat Festival à Copenhague. La soirée sera également marqué par la création mondiale d'Argumenta, une nouvelle œuvre pour deux percussions commandée et créée par le Copenhagen Marimba duo composé des percussionnistes Mathias Reumert et Anders Kann Elten. Voici quelques mots du compositeur à propos de l'œuvre. There is also the NOW! Festival at the Saalbau Essen has become a veritable crossroads of contemporary creation. On November 1, the public will be fortunate enough to discover the third part of Hèctor Parra's Mineral Life cycle, commissioned by the Saalbau Essen from the composer, currently in residence at the Villa Medicis in Rome, for the flautist Anne-Catherine Heinzmann.

Evening “Dans le bleu nuit de La Scala” (Paris) on October 9th and a new opus for string quartet performed by the virtuoso bows of the Jack Quartet. 

World premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris of Intérieur, a monodrama by Joan Magrané Figuera.