"Psalterium" in Latin means both the psalter, or psalms collection, and is the name of a musical instrument, in French, the Psalterion, whose bow version can be considered as a distant ancestor of the cello. 

The idea for this fifth quartet arose after a trip to Perm, in Russia. Whilst there I met the cellist Alexei Zhilin, a member of the David Oistrakh Quartet, and he suggested I write a piece for his group. The project was able to come about through the generosity of the Festival des Forêts, who commissioned me.

This work, created in response to a commission by the Paris Mozart Orchestra, is a melologue, like the dramatic scene of the same name by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The poem, which is “commented on” by the orchestra, is a ballad by Goethe that departs significantly from the myth narrated by Rousseau and, before him, Ovid.

Customary of shocks, formal but also of language, Hector Parra will return on May 11 to the Philharmonie of Cologne...

GerMANIA by composer Alexander Raskatov – commissioned and premiered by the Opéra de Lyon – has all the marks of a major event on the international opera scene...

The unique voice of Joan Magrané Figuera, one of the most promising talents of the school of contemporary Spanish composition...

The Italian premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Medeamaterial, the now famous operatic adaptation of Heiner Müller's work of the same title, has been awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize.

With his new large-format symphonic work, Hector Parra confirms the fascinating originality of his inspiration, which brings into dialogue the sculptural sense of sound material and the irrepressible need for narrative.

It would have been impossible to imagine a more legitimate encounter than that of Oscar Bianchi's compositional work with the project “connect / le public artiste”, whose brilliant utopia aims to decompartmentalise the musician on stage and the listener in the audience. 

Evoking this new work, which we can be sure will remain in the pantheon of the French post-modernity like the famous Trio after Marin Marais, the composer Philippe Hersant uses the characteristical words of "proofreading" and " extension". Here, it is a question of the "Madrilenian" quintet of Boccherini’s nocturne, program music before time – an oh so sensitive matter that will certainly require the goldsmith expertise of Philippe Hersant to reveal the contemporary asperities.