UMPC composers Kurtág, Dusapin, Francesconi, Lim, Manoury, Stroppa, Aperghis, Fujikura and Parra send birthday wishes to the Arditti Quartet.

Today Universal Music Publishing Classical releases its 2014 yearbook “On the page”. The volume features interviews with Peter Eötvös and Martin Grubinger, in-depth articles about Klaus Huber and Fausto Romitelli, insights into the Puccini critical edition and much more.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite works from our catalogs. This time: Samy Moussa about Pascal Dusapin's La Melancholia.

On 14 July 2012 the Arditti Quartet will create the Samy Moussa String Quartet.

Next February 19 at the Harris Theater in Chicago, the Ensemble of the famous West-Eastern Divan Ensemble founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said will premiere Jawb by Benjamin Attahir which will be played throughout the entire North American tour of the ensemble.

Next January 31 we will be at the Auditori de Barcelona with Hèctor Parra, “terrible child” (and prodigy) of musical Catalonia: his Wanderwelle for baritone and orchestra will be premiere by the faithful Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona y Nacional de Catalunia conduct by, always fascinating, Kazushi Ono. The ideal moment to listen for the growing number of Parra’s music lovers, before finding his prodigious Bienveillantes at the Nuremberg Opera at the end of the season.

More inspired and convincing than ever, the muse of Baptiste Trotignon, the French piano jazz star and a respected composer over the course of a decade, reveals to us in the start to the new year a concerto for the sensual and sensitive trumpet of Romain Leleu. Following its first world premiere in Finland on 30 January, Move will tour throughout France with a prestigious panel of co-commissioning chamber orchestras.

On January 26, a new work by Pascal Dusapin’s, used to large halls and German formations, will be premiered under the direction of Kent Nagano and his Hamburg orchestra with the world premiere of Waves. Concerto written for the expert fingers of the organists Iveta Apkalna (who will premiere it) and Olivier Latry (in national premiere in various countries next season). alongside the Elbphilharmonie, the work will be perform by the Symphonic Orchestra of Montreal, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, la Philharmonie de Paris, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande et l’Orchestre du Théâtre de la Monnaie. It is an understatement to say, with such kinship, that the work is expected and already considered as one of the essential milestones of the new symphonic decade.

On 8th February, Radio France’s Présences Festival will present the world premiere of Oscar Bianchi's third string quartet, Sintonía, by the talented Quatuor Diotima who is also been behind the commission of his very first string quartet. Centered upon the dialectic between the known and the unknown, the familiar and the foreign, much like the composer's two previous works for string quartet, Sintonía tackles, according to the composer's own words, "the potential wealth and the consequences of otherness into our lives and thoughts.”