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Les Siècles

6.12.2024

räsonanz – Donor Concert with works by Pierre Boulez on January 9, 2025 at Prinzregententheater Munich

The 2025 räsonanz – Donor Concert in collaboration with the Bayerischer Rundfunk's musica viva is dedicated to the composer Pierre Boulez. To mark the 100th anniversary of Boulez's birth, two of his key works will be performed. ‘Eclat-Multiples’ and ‘Pli selon pli’ will be played by Les Siècles under the baton of Franck Ollu at the Prinzregententheater in Munich at 8 p.m. on 9 January 2025. Soprano Sarah Aristidou will perform the vocal part.

3.11.2024

Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation’s support educational projects

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is pleased to announce that it will be offering special funding for projects aimed at children and young people for the 2025/26 concert season. The promotion of educational projects is intended to have a broad impact and reach children and young people without any previous musical background.

3.11.2024

Young Composers’ Forum

On December 12, 2024 at 7 pm, Minzuo Lu will present her new work Ihr, Monolog as part of the Young Composer’s Forum. This year, the Chinese composer Minzuo Lu (1991) was selected for the Young Composer’s Forum by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Minzuo Lu has been commissioned to compose a piece and will curate the concert in which her work will be performed for the first time.

30.10.2024

Ensemble Prize ’25 to Collective lovemusic and ensemble Tacet(i)

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is pleased to award the two Ensemble Prizes ’25 to Collective lovemusic from France and the ensemble Tacet(i) from Thailand. The Prize, which is endowed each with 75,000 euros, will be presented to outstanding young ensembles in 2025, marking the fifth year the Prize has been awarded.

1.10.2024

On 24 Oktober, the next part of the workshop series “Community in Practice” will take place.”

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is committed to the topic of "sustainability in cultural work" and would like to deal with this topic as responsibly as possible. For this reason, we have initiated a series of workshops on sustainability perspectives in contemporary music together with other funding organisations. The next workshop on 24 October 2024 from 16:00-17:30 will focus on Sustainable event and festival organisation.