Overview of the events of 2010 in classical music
Events
New works Steven Bryant – Concerto for Wind Ensemble [ 4] Mehdi Hosseini
Taleshi Hava ,An Unfinished Draft , for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and baritonePause , for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and tubular bellsWojciech Kilar – The Solemn Overture , for symphony orchestraFred Lerdahl – Arches Bruno Mantovani – Concerto de chambre nos 1 and 2 Krzysztof Penderecki
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott for mixed choir, brass, percussion and string orchestraPowiało na mnie morze snów... Pieśni zadumy i nostalgii Duo concertante , for violin and double bassTanz , for solo violaSteve Reich – WTC 9/11 Kaija Saariaho – Mirages [ 5] Esa-Pekka Salonen – Nyx , for orchestra[ 6] Johannes Maria Staud
On Comparative Meteorology , for orchestraContrebande (On Comparative Meteorology II) , for orchestraTondo Preludio , for orchestraChant d'amour , for ensembleManfred Trojahn – Herbstmusik , for orchestraGraham Waterhouse – Chinese Whispers
Opera premieres
Date
Opera
Composer
Theatre
18 January
The Child Dreams Gil Shohat Israeli Opera
25 February
Il caso Mortara Francesco Cilluffo Dicapo Opera
26 February
Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera David T. Little Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
1 March
Émilie Kaija Saariaho Opéra National de Lyon
7 March
Le Bal Oscar Strasnoy Hamburg State Opera
12 March
Bliss Brett Dean Sydney Opera House
3 March
Knight Crew Julian Philips Glyndebourne
17 April
Shadowboxer Frank Proto University of Maryland School of Music , Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
30 April
Moby-Dick Jake Heggie Dallas Opera
7 May
Queen of Knives Eric Stern Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center , Portland, Oregon
8 May
Amelia Daron Hagen Seattle Opera
13 June
The Golden Ticket Peter Ash Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
4 July
Un Retour Oscar Strasnoy Aix-en-Provence Festival
24 July
Life is a Dream Lewis Spratlan Santa Fe Opera
7 August
Sonya's Story Neal Thornton
Riverside Studios , London
10 September
’u’ Eef van Breen Theater Zeebelt, The Hague
25 September
Gisela! Hans Werner Henze Maschinenhalle Zeche Zweckel [de ] , Gladbeck , Germany
8 October
Pecan Summer Deborah Cheetham WestSide Performing Arts Centre, Mooroopna , Australia
22 October
Río de Sangre Don Davis Florentine Opera , Milwaukee, Wisconsin , United States
Albums
Musical films
Deaths January 8 – Otmar Suitner , Austrian conductor, 87January 22 – Surendran Reddy , South African pianist and composer, 47January 23 – Earl Wild , US pianist, 94February 2 – Nelli Shkolnikova , Russian violinist, 81February 9 – Jacques Hétu , Canadian composer and music teacher, 71February 11 – Irina Arkhipova , Russian operatic mezzo-soprano and later contralto, 85February 17 – Kathryn Grayson , 88, American soprano and film starFebruary 18 – Ariel Ramírez , Argentine composer, 88March – Farman Behboud , Iranian pianist and piano teacher, 63
March 4 – Amalie Christie , Norwegian classical pianist, author and anthroposophist, 96March 5 – Philip Langridge , English operatic tenor, 70March 17 – Ştefan Gheorghiu , Romanian violinist, 83March 23 – Blanche Thebom , 91, American mezzo-sopranoApril 1 – Morag Beaton , 83, Scottish-Australian sopranoApril 10 – William Walker , 78, American baritone and General Director of the Fort Worth OperaApril 27 – Morris Pert , Scottish percussionist, pianist and composer, 62April 29 – Johannes Fritsch , German composer, 68May 5 – Giulietta Simionato , Italian operatic mezzo-soprano, 99May 17 – Yvonne Loriod , French pianist, teacher, and composer, 86May 24 – Anneliese Rothenberger , 83, German sopranoMay 25 – Siphiwo Ntshebe , South African operatic tenor, 35 (meningitis)June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei , Italian operatic baritone, 93June 5 – Arne Nordheim , Norwegian composer, 78June 12 – Fuat Mansurov , Russian conductor, 82June 14 – Giacinto Prandelli , Italian operatic tenor, 96June 18 – Kalmen Opperman , American clarinetist, teacher, conductor and instrument maker, 90July 1 – John Paynter , British composer and music educator, 78July 5 – Cesare Siepi , 87, Italian bassJuly 12 – John Douglas , American conductor, voice teacher and accompanist, 54 (melanoma)July 14 – Sir Charles Mackerras , Australian conductor, 84July 15 – Luo Pinchao , Chinese opera singer, 98June 16 – Maureen Forrester , 79, Canadian contraltoJuly 21 – Anthony Rolfe Johnson , British tenor, 69August 6 – Cacilda Borges Barbosa , Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer, 96September 11 – Herbert Grossman , American conductor, 83September 12 – Charles Ansbacher , American conductor, 67September 19 – László Polgár , Hungarian operatic bass, 63September 21 – Geoffrey Burgon , British film and TV score composer, 69September 28 – Dolores Wilson , American operatic soprano, 82October 10
October 30 – Morris Pert , Scottish composer, drummer /percussionist and pianist, 62November 2 – Rudolf Barshai , Russian violist and composer, 86November 5 – Shirley Verrett , American mezzo-soprano, 79November 12 – Henryk Górecki , Polish composer, 74November 30 – Peter Hofmann , German operatic tenor, 66December 6 – Hugues Cuénod , Swiss operatic tenor, 108December 7 – Sergiu Luca , Romanian violinist, 67December 15 – Hilde Rössel-Majdan , Austrian operatic contralto, 89December 16 – Richard Adeney , British flautist, 90
Major awards
Pulitzer Prize in Music
Classical Brits
Grammy Awards
See also
References
