Pascal Dusapin’s new piece In Vivo for solo violin will be premiered by Carolin Widmann at this year’s Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik.

Requested by the Musée du Louvre to write a piece to pay tribute to the Spanish painter Velásquez, in the context of the Grand Palais exhibition which is dedicated to him, Hèctor Parra chose to be inspired by the painting La Légende d’Arachné - Las Hilanderas (Les Fileuses), in order to write a third string quartet for Quatuor Tana.

Eric Montalbetti's first orchestral composition will be premiered by Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire under the baton of Pascal Rophé on March 12, 2015 in Saint Brevin. In this video interview, he speaks about his little-known role as a composer and tells us more about the piece.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite work from our catalogs. This time Adam Schoenberg introduces Eric Tanguy’s Concerto pour violoncelle n° 2.

Following his second opera, Samy Moussa dives back into orchestral writing with a new piece, Nocturne, which will be premiered on the 17th March 2015 in Montreal. This performance continues his collaboration with Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Maestro Kent Nagano, with whom he maintains a long-term professional relationship. Samy Moussa speaks about this new work, which he has deliberately designed as absolute music.

In this new interview, Bernard Fournier presents Charles Koechlin to us, the progressive composer who made a mark on his time, as much by his music as by the ideas which he stands for.

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The production of Ciboulette at the Opéra Comique which saw resounding success in February 2013, will rerun on the stage of Salle Favart in April 2015. A DVD of this production came out in September 2014, co-produced by FRA Musica / Opéra Comique, and has just won the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros.

Georges Aperghis follows the cycle of Études for orchestra, started in 2013, with two new pieces. In this way, the composer dives back into orchestral writing from which he had strayed over the years. Each of these short pieces allows him to deal with specific material, which he attempts to exploit in the most successful way possible.

Following a commission by the Orchestre national de Belgique to write a piece on the theme of the First World War, Benoît Mernier, with whom we started a collaboration in 2013 for his opera La Dispute, has completed his first concerto for violin.