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Eva Resch releases new Lied-CD Rot
On 5 September 2025, the latest Lied recording Rot presenting the soprano Eva Resch and the pianist Eric Schneider will be released at the label Genuin. Following her debut-CDs Being Beauteous and Eden the duo now presents their third Lied recording. It is a co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Red is the colour of love, but also of blood, anger and shame. Eva Resch is exploring the diverse meanings of this colour in her latest conceptual record and is fascinating the listener once again with her versatile singing voice. Together with her pianist she is performing songs reaching from the classic repertoire to the present, from W. A. Mozart to Wolfgang Rihm.
(published on 26 August 2025)
New with us: the Finnish soprano Anu Komsi
We are looking forward to the new cooperation with the outstanding Finnish soprano Anu Komsi. The coloratura soprano is praised for her perfect musicianship, technical skills, expressive interpretations and vast repertoire that ranges from renaissance music to the most advanced contemporary scores. George Benjamin dedicated the soprano role in his opera Into the Little Hill especially to Anu. Eva’s role in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s opera Donnerstag from Licht at the Theater Basel was another critically acclaimed performance. She has appeared at the Semperoper Dresden, Salzburg Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Lucerne Festival, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro La Scala Milan, Finnish National Opera and Lincoln Center Festival NYC i. a.. She premiered large works including Kaija Saariaho’s Saarikoski (2013-2020) and Leino Songs (2000-2007), Jonathan Harvey’s White as Jasmine (2000), Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Floof (1988) and Wing on Wing (2004) and Unsuk Chin’s Cantatrix Sopranica (2005).
In the season 2025/26, she will be giving concerts together with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and will premiere the new opera Medusa by Iain Bell in the staging of Lydia Steier at La Monnaie / De Munt Brussels.
(published on 12 August 2025)
Sofia Jernberg: Nomination for Nordic Council Music Prize 2025
The Swedish vocal artist and composer Sofia Jernberg has been nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize 2025. This Award is one of the most prestigious prizes in Scandinavia. The winner of the 2025 Nordic Council Music Prize will be announced on 21 October 2025 in Stockholm and will be chosen out of 12 nominees coming from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Island, Denmark and the Faroe Islands. The prize winner will receive the “Nordlys” prize statuette at a special award ceremony. The prize is worth DKK 300,000. The nominated artists, among these also Vilde Frang and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra cover a wide spectrum of musical expression, from opera, classical music and art music to rock, pop and jazz. Common to all is that they produce fantastic music of very high quality, all with artistic integrity and great originality. Together they represent the best in Nordic music today and reflect the breadth and quality of the region's musical landscape. Sofia Jernberg’s uniqueness and artistic versality inspires composers, musical partners and stage directors. She is an international sought-after artist performing with internationally leading orchestras and at main concert halls and festivals, among them the Armory Hall NYC, Walt Disney Concert Hall LA, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Wiener Festwochen and the Festival d’Automne Paris.
(published on 6 August 2025)
Sarah Maria Sun: Concerts in Switzerland
On 21 August 2025, the soprano Sarah Maria Sun will present her extraordinary recital programme Silence is Golden together with Kilian Herold (clarinet) and Jan Philip Schulze (piano) at the Festival Les Jardins Musicaux’s invitation in Cernier. It is already her third festival appearance in a row, following her successful festival debut in summer 2023.
On 22 and 24 August 2025, she will perform the revival of the staged version of Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins in combination with György Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre at Grange aux Concerts. This production in the staging of Christian Rätz has been premiered last year to great acclaim. Sarah Maria Sun sings the role of Anna 1 & 2 in Kurt Weill’s piece. The conductor Valentin Reymond will lead again the Orchestre des Jardins Musicaux. Further singers are Benoit Capt (The Father), Paul Kirby (Son 1), Stuart Patterson (Son 2) i.a..
(published on 5 August 2025)
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