Philipp Maintz was born in Aachen in 1977, where he received his first composition lessons from Michael Reudenbach in 1993. From 1997 he studied composition with Robert HP Platz at the Maastricht Conservatory, graduating with distinction in 2003. Further study visits at the CRFMW (Centre de Recherches et de Formations Musicales de Wallonie) of the Université de Liège and at IRCAM in Paris followed, as well as from 2003 to 2005 with Karlheinz Essl at the Studio For Advanced Music & Media Technology in Linz. Philipp Maintz has received numerous awards and grants: 2002 from the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt and the International Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, 2004 from the Künstlerhof Schreyahn in Lower Saxony, 2005 the sponsorship award from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, 2006 the grant from the Wilfried-Steinbrenner-Foundation. This was followed by a study visit to the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2007, a residency grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2009 and a grant from the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo in 2010. His opera “MALDOROR” premiered at the Munich Biennale for New Music Theater in 2010. In 2013 he was Artiste résident at Château de Chambord on the Loire and in 2015/16 he was awarded the scholarship of the Free State of Bavaria for the Villa Concordia Bamberg, in 2018 he received the Eduard-Arnhold-Scholarship of the Wilhelm Kempff Kulturstiftung in Positano, Italy. In 2019 his chamber opera “THÉRÈSE” based on Emile Zola and a libretto by Otto Katzameier premiered at the Salzburg Easter Festival and at the Hamburg State Opera. In September 2023, his song cycle “liebeslieder. five songs on poems by elisabeth plessen for mezzo-soprano, bass clarinet and piano” will premiere.
In addition to soloists such as Hansjörg Albrecht, Yulianna Avdeeva, Claudia Barainsky, Francesco Filidei, Alban Gerhardt, Otto Katzameier, Melise Mellinger, Marisol Montalvo, Nils Mönkemeyer, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, the interpreters of his music also include the Arditti String Quartet and the Minguet Quartet, Ensemble Alternance, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Recherche, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, MusikFabrik NRW, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Aachen and Basel Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Orchester Philharmonique du Luxembourg and the Orchester Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo alongside the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and the Munich Philharmonic.
| composer_first_name | composer_last_name | title | date | orchestra | conductor | location | special |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Rinaldo | 21.02.2025 | Rinaldo Alessandrini, Regie: Hinrich Horstkotte | Karlsruhe | Premiere | |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Castor et Pollux | 21.02.2025 | Christopher Moulds, Regie: Adriana Altaras | Meiningen | Premiere | |
| Danny | Elfman | Percussion Concerto | 22.02.2025 | Vivi Vassileva (Schlagzeug), Nürnberger Symphoniker | Gregor A. Mayrhofer | Nürnberg (Meistersingerhalle) | |
| Hector | Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | 22.02.2025 | Kiril Stankow, Regie: Sebastian Baumgarten | Kassel | Premiere | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 22.02.2025 | Ektoras Tartanis, Regie: Johannes Reitmeier | Passau | Premiere | |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Streichquartett No. 1 | 22.02.2025 | Mitglieder des Sinfonieorchesters Basel | Basel (Picassoplatz) | ||
| Benjamin | Britten | Quatre Chansons Francaises | 23.02.2025 | Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille | Valentin Uryupin | Marseille | |
| Philippe | Hurel | Figures libres | 23.02.2025 | Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie | Graz (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst) | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mitridate, re di Ponto | 23.02.2025 | Emmanuelle Bastet, Regie: Tim Northam | Lausanne | Premiere | |
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 23.02.2025 | Johannes Witt, Regie: Matthew Ferraro | Wuppertal | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mitridate, re di Ponto | 23.02.2025 | Adam Fischer, Regie: Birgit Kajtna-Wönig | Hamburg (Staatsoper) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 28.02.2025 | Clelia Cafiero, Regie: Éric Vigié | Tours | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 01.03.2025 | Johannes Braun, Regie: Barbara-David Brüesch | Graz | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 01.03.2025 | Jerzy Wolosiuk, Regie: Natalia Babinska | Szczecin | Premiere | |
| Imogen | Holst | On Westhall Hill | 02.03.2025 | Complexity Orchestra | Elsa Schönwiese | Wien (Complexity Science Hub) | |
| Matthew | Hindson | House Music - Flute Concerto | 06.03.2025 | Meret Louisa Vogel (Flöte), Neubrandenburger Philharmonie | Nicholas Milton | Neubrandenburg (Konzertkirche) | |
| Matthias | Pintscher | Chute d'Etoiles | 06.03.2025 | Reinhold Friedrich, Simon Höfele (Trompete), Jenaer Philharmonie | Simon Gaudenz | Jena (Volkshaus) | |
| Frank | Martin | Messe für zwei vierstimmige Chöre a cappella | 06.03.2025 | Downtown Voices and Amor Artists | Ryan Brandau, Stephen Sands | New York (Trinity Church) | |
| Imogen | Holst | Persephone | 07.03.2025 | Saarländisches Staatsorchester | Justus Thorau | Saarbrücken (Stiftskirche St. Arnual) | |
| Anders | Hillborg | Piano Concerto No. 2 | 08.03.2025 | Emanuel Ax (Klavier), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln | Sakari Oramo | Köln (Philharmonie) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | septemberalbum, zeige deine wunde | 08.03.2025 | Larisa Akbari (Sopran), Sinfonieorchester Aachen | Chanmin Chung | Aachen (Classic Lounge, Depot Talstraße) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 08.03.2025 | James Conlon, Regie: Michael Cavanagh | Los Angeles (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 09.03.2025 | Daniel Linton-France, Regie: Andreas Rosar | Bregenz | Premiere | |
| Eric | Coates | Two Symphonic Rhapsodies | 11.03.2025 | Bergische Symphoniker | Killian Farrell | Solingen (Theater und Konzerthaus) | |
| Joseph | Haydn | L'isola disabitata | 11.03.2025 | François López-Ferrer, Regie: Simon Valastro | Paris (Amphithéatre Olivier Messiaen) | Premiere | |
| Peter | Tschaikowsky | Eugen Onegin | 12.03.2025 | Azim Karimov, Regie: Victoria Bomann-Larsen | Oslo | Premiere | |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Dardanus | 15.03.2025 | Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Ecurie | Alexis Kossenko | Tourcoing (Théatre Raymond Devos) | |
| Charlotte | Seither | krü für Violoncello solo | 15.03.2025 | Matthias Lorenz (Violoncello) | Chemnitz (Staatliches Museum für Archäologie) | ||
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse | 15.03.2025 | Reinhild Köhncke (Erzählerin), Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle | Heng Che | Schwerin | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Zwerg Nase | 15.03.2025 | Jeannette Wernecke (Sprechering), Bergische Symphoniker | Remscheid | auch 16.3. Solingen | |
| Frank | Martin | Messe für zwei vierstimmige Chöre a cappella | 15.03.2025 | Swedish Radio Choir | Kaspars Putnins | Stockholm (Berwaldhallen) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | maintenant. pas encore. plus jamais. | 16.03.2025 | Quator Diotima | Leipzig (Gewandhaus) | Uraufführung | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 18.03.2025 | Rinaldo Alessandrini, Regie: Pierre Audi | Rom | Premiere | |
| Georges | Bizet | Les pecheurs de perles | 19.03.2025 | Pierre Dumoussaud, Regie: Mirabelle Ordinaire | Dijon | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Belshazzar | 20.03.2025 | Capella cracoviensis | Christina Pluhar | Krakau (Filharmonia) | |
| Matthias | Pintscher | Neharot | 20.03.2025 | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Matthias Pintscher | Glasgow (City Halls) | |
| Charlotte | Seither | Echoes of O's for one or more performer or any movable entities | 21.03.2025 | Lenka Zupkova, Tatjana Prelevic, Sophia Körber (Performance) | Magdeburg (Gesellschaftshaus) | ||
| George | Benjamin | Written on skin | 21.03.2025 | Peter Rundel, Regie: Balázs Kovalik | München (Prinzregententheater) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 22.03.2025 | Kammerorchester Basel | Giovanni Antonini | Basel (Stadtcasino) | konzertant, weitere Termine |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 22.03.2025 | Václav Luks, Regie: Jiri Hermann | Brünn (Janácek-Theater) | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 22.03.2025 | Nationaltheater Orchester | Anton Legkii | Mannheim | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mitridate, re di Ponto | 23.03.2025 | Ivor Bolton, Regie: Claus Guth | Madrid | Premiere | |
| Beat | Furrer | Das grosse Feuer | 23.03.2025 | Beat Furrer, Regie: Tatjana Gürbaca | Zürich | Uraufführung | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel VII (o haupt voll blut und wunden) für orgel solo | 26.03.2025 | Anna-Victoria Baltrusch | Halle (Konzerthalle Ulrichskirche) | ||
| Matthias | Pintscher | Neharot | 28.03.2025 | Orquesta Nacional de Espana | Matthias Pintscher | Madrid (Auditorio) | |
| Hector | Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | 28.03.2025 | Orchestre et Choeur Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège | Giampaolo Bisanti | Liège | konzertant |
| Philipp | Maintz | haché für orgel solo, englouti für orgel solo, pétillant für orgel solo | 29.03.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel) | Berlin (Konzerthaus) | Deutsche Erstauff., Uraufführung | |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Incantesimo für Oboe solo und Orchester, Enigma für Orchester | 02.04.2025 | Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra | Eduard Topchjan | Basel (Stadtcasino) | auch 3.4. |
| Hector | Berlioz | Chasse royale et orage | 02.04.2025 | Czech Philharmonic | Alain Altinoglu | Prag (Rudolfinum) | |
| Thomas | Adès | Three Studies from Couperin | 04.04.2025 | Orchestre National d'Ile de France | Julien Leroy | Paris (Cité de la Musique) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 04.04.2025 | Gary Thor Wedow, Regie: Stephen Lawless | Palm Beach (Kravis Center for the Performing Arts) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 05.04.2025 | David Stern, Regie: Héloise Sérazin | Massy (Opéra Fuoco) | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 7. Symphonie | 05.04.2025 | Filharmonie Brno | Norbert Pfaffelmeyer | Baden | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 06.04.2025 | Lina Fastabend (Rezitation), Bochumer Symphoniker | Tung-Chieh Chuang | Bochum | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 07.04.2025 | Matteo Beltrami, Regie: Yehezkel Lazarov | Tel Aviv | Premiere | |
| Jules | Massenet | Werther | 13.04.2025 | Giampaolo Bisanti, Regie: Fabrice Murgia | Liège | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Clori, Tirsi e Fileno | 13.04.2025 | Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha | Michael Hofstetter | Bad Lauchstädt (Händel-Festspiele, Goethe-Theater) | |
| Umberto | Giordano | Fedora, Andrea Chénier (Ausschnitte) | 15.04.2025 | Sondra Radvanovsky (Sopran), Seokjong Baek (Tenor), Mozarteumorchester | Tabita Berglund | Salzburg (Osterfestspiele) | |
| Beat | Furrer | Akusmata | 16.04.2025 | PHACE - Ensemble für neue Musik | Cordula Bürgi | Hall (Musik+/Osterfestival Tirol) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Il re pastore | 18.04.2025 | Florian Ludwig, Regie: André Bücker | Rheinsberg (Schloss) | Premiere | |
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | Fidelio | 18.04.2025 | Cláudio Cruz, Regie: William Pereira | Sao Paulo (Theatro São Pedro) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 19.04.2025 | Daniel Geiss, Regie: Sven Müller | Neustrelitz | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Il re pastore | 23.04.2025 | Camerata Salzburg | Giovanni Guzzo | Salzburg (Residenz Domquartier) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 23.04.2025 | OSM Chorus, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Rafael Payare | Montréal (Maison symphonique) | konzertant |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Thamos, König in Ägypten | 24.04.2025 | Orchestra Teatro Comunale di Bologna | James Conlon | Bologna (Auditorium Manzoni) | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Waldszenen | 24.04.2025 | Kammerorchester Darmstadt | Nicolas Kierdorf | Darmstadt | auch 25.4. |
| Frank | Martin | Messe für zwei vierstimmige Chöre a cappella | 26.04.2025 | Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland | David De Lyser | Portland (St. Philip Neri Catholic Church) | auch 27.4. |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 27.04.2025 | James Gaffigan, Regie: Kirill Serebrennikov | Berlin (Komische Oper) | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 27.04.2025 | Dorothee Oberlinger, Regie: Jens-Daniel Herzog | Nürnberg | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXX (nun lobet gott im hohen thron) | 28.04.2025 | Marcel Andreas Ober | Berlin (Kathedrale St. Hedwig) | Uraufführung | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | La Resurrezione | 30.04.2025 | Les Arts Florissants | Paul Agnew | Paris (Philharmonie) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | 01.05.2025 | Chin-Chao Lin, Regie: FC Bergman | Wiesbaden (Internationale Maifestspiele) | Premiere | |
| Gioachino | Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | 02.05.2025 | Tobias Ringborg, Regie: Linus Fellbom | Stockholm | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 02.05.2025 | Roberto Minczuk, Regie: Hugo Possolo | Sao Paulo (Theatro Municipal) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 02.05.2025 | John DeMain, Regie: Fenlon Lamb | Madison | Premiere | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Iphigénie en Tauride | 03.05.2025 | Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Orchester | Thomas Hengelbrock | Hamburg (Internationales Musikfest Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie) | konzertant |
| Beat | Furrer | Akusmata | 04.05.2025 | PHACE - Ensemble für neue Musik | Cordula Bürgi | Wien (Konzerthaus) | |
| Cassandra | Miller | Bismillah meets the Creator in Springtime for two soloists, large spatialized ensemble and fixed audio | 04.05.2025 | WDR Sinfonieorchester | Elena Schwarz | Witten (Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik) | Deutsche Erstauff. |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Conduct für Orgel mit zwei Spielern | 04.05.2025 | Düsseldorf (Tersteegenkirche) | |||
| Matthew | Hindson | Maralinga | 04.05.2025 | Tassilo Probst (Violine), Göttinger Symphonie Orchester | Nicolò Umberto Foron | Göttingen (Stadthalle) | |
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | Fidelio | 04.05.2025 | Will Humburg, Regie: Evelyn Herlitzius | Wiesbaden (Internationale Maifestspiele) | ||
| Philipp | Maintz | englouti für orgel solo | 04.05.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel) | Leipzig (Gewandhaus) | ||
| Claudio | Monteverdi | L'incoronazione di Poppea | 05.05.2025 | Studenten der Hochschule | Feldkirch (Stella Vorarlberg Privathochschule für Musik) | auch 6.5. | |
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 05.05.2025 | Louis Langrée, Regie: Denis Podalydès | Lille | Premiere | |
| Oliver | Knussen | Music for a Puppet Court | 07.05.2025 | Sinfonieorchester Basel | Ivor Bolton | Basel (Stadtcasino) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 07.05.2025 | Nicolas Ellis, Regie: Mathieu Bauer | Rennes | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Tamerlano | 08.05.2025 | Freiburger Barockorchester | René Jacobs | Freiburg (Konzerthaus) | weitere Termine |
| Anton | Bruckner | 9. Symphonie | 08.05.2025 | NDR Radiophilharmonie | Cornelius Meister | Hannover (Sendesaal NDR) | auch 9.5. |
| Camille | Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | 09.05.2025 | Guillaume Tourniaire, Regie: Immo Karaman | Saint-Etienne | Premiere | |
| Lucia | Ronchetti | Pinocchios Abenteuer | 09.05.2025 | Shawn Chang, Regie: Teresa Hoffmann | Stuttgart | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | The Piano Concerto (Gran Toccata) | 10.05.2025 | Andreas Haefliger (Klavier), Basel Sinfonietta | Titus Engel | Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie) | |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Pigmalion (Auswahl) | 10.05.2025 | SWR Symphonieorchester | Matthew Halls | Schwetzingen (Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 10.05.2025 | Alexander Mayer, Regie: Wolfgang Berthold | Stralsund | Premiere | |
| Ruggiero | Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | 10.05.2025 | Gerrit Prießnitz, Regie: Jasmina Hadziahmetovic | Innsbruck | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Il re pastore | 14.05.2025 | Manlio Benzi, Regie: Cecilia Ligorio | Rom (Teatro Nazionale) | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Der alternative Karneval der Tiere | 14.05.2025 | Staatsorchester Darmstadt | Nicolas Kierdorf | Darmstadt | auch 15.5. |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno | 15.05.2025 | Felix Pätzold, Regie: Jan Eßinger | Koblenz (Festung Ehrenbreitstein) | Premiere | |
| Ambroise | Thomas | Hamlet | 15.05.2025 | Jérémie Rhorer, Regie: Jacopo Spirei | Turin (Teatro Regio) | Premiere | |
| Francesco | Filidei | Esercizio di pazzia II | 16.05.2025 | hand werk | Regie: Ruben Michael | Köln (Philharmonie) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 16.05.2025 | Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Regie: Jean-Francois Sivadier | Lausanne | Premiere | |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Incantesimo für Oboe und Orchester | 16.05.2025 | Nathalie Gullung (Oboe), Orchestre Musique des Lumières | Facundo Agudin | Lausanne (Salle Paderewski) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Solomon | 16.05.2025 | NDR Vokalensemble, Festspielorchester Göttingen | George Petrou | Göttingen (Stadthalle, Internationale Händel-Festspiele) | auch 20.5. Dresden |
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 16.05.2025 | Laurent Brack, Regie: Ned Grujic | Courbevoie (LabOpéra) | Premiere | |
| Gioachino | Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | 16.05.2025 | Rory Macdonald, Regie: Annabel Arden | Glyndebourne (Festival) | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Tamerlano | 17.05.2025 | George Petrou, Regie: Rosetta Cucchi | Göttingen (Deutsches Theater, Internationale Händel-Festspiele) | Premiere | |
| Thomas | Adès | The Tempest | 17.05.2025 | Marco Comin, Regie: Julia Lwowski | Kassel | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mitridate, re di Ponto | 18.05.2025 | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset | Mailand (Teatro alla Scala) | auch 25.5. Paris |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 18.05.2025 | André de Ridder, Regie: Katarzyna Borkowska | Freiburg | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 18.05.2025 | Berner Symphonieorchester | Anne Hinrichsen | Bern | |
| Philipp | Maintz | englouti | 22.05.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel und Moderation) | Siena (Accademia Musicale Chigiana) | Ital. Erstauff. | |
| Peter I. | Tschaikowsky | Eugen Onegin | 24.05.2025 | Johannes Willig, Regie: Olivia Fuchs | Karlsruhe | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 24.05.2025 | Patrick Hahn, Regie: Claudia Isabel Martin | Wuppertal | Premiere | |
| Joseph | Haydn | Il ritorno di Tobia | 24.05.2025 | Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra | György Vashegyi | Budapest (Academy of Music) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Le Docteur Miracle | 24.05.2025 | Sora Elisabeth Lee, Regie: Pierre Lebon | Paris (Théatre du Chatelet) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 24.05.2025 | Ben Glassberg, Regie: Lotte de Beer | Wien (Volksoper) | Premiere | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Libera me für tiefe Streicher und Solotenor | 25.05.2025 | Julian Prégardien (Tenor), Münchener Kammerorchester | Bas Wiegers | Würzburg (Residenz) | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 25.05.2025 | Staatskapelle Weimar | Andreas Wolf | Weimar | |
| Thomas Daniel | Schlee | Wacht auf, Harfe und Saitenspiel | 25.05.2025 | Sinfonia Christkönig | Eduard Matscheko | Linz (Friedenskirche) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | 25.05.2025 | William Christie, Regie: Calixto Bieito | Barcelona | Premiere | |
| Miroslav | Srnka | Eighteen Agents | 26.05.2025 | Staatsorchester Stuttgart | Cornelius Meister | Stuttgart (Liederhalle) | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Verpasste Gelegenheiten | 27.05.2025 | Hanni Liang (Klavier), Manfred Trojahn (Sprecher) | Würzburg (Mozartareal, Mozartfest) | ||
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 28.05.2025 | Lionel Bringuier, Regie: Daniel Benoin | Nizza | Premiere | |
| Rudolf | Kelterborn | Erinnerungen an Mademoiselle Jeunehomme | 29.05.2025 | Studierende der Hochschule | Christoph-Mathias Müller | Zürich (Hochschule der Künste) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Messe in c-Moll | 29.05.2025 | Det Kongelige Kapel | Marie Jacquot | Kopenhagen | |
| Cassandra | Miller | Bel Canto für Mezzosopran und Ensemble | 29.05.2025 | Sean Shibe guitar & Friends | Alphonse Cemin | London (Wigmore Hall) | weitere Termine |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 30.05.2025 | Killian Farrell, Regie: Hinrich Horstkotte | Meiningen | Premiere | |
| Rudolf | Kelterborn | Variationen für Oboe und Streicher | 31.05.2025 | Sapporo Symphony Orchestra | Heinz Holliger | Sapporo (Concert Hall) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 01.06.2025 | Philharmonisches Orchester Würzburg | Will Humburg, Regie: Till Kleine-Möller | Würzburg | Premiere |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Saul | 01.06.2025 | Leo Hussain, Regie: Claus Guth | Dresden | Premiere | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Abendröte, Elf Lieder für Stimme und Klavier zusammengefügt mit elf Liedern von Franz Schubert nach Texten von Friedrich Schlegel | 02.06.2025 | Liedklasse Gerold Huber | Würzburg (Exerzitienhaus Himmelspforten, Mozartfest) | ||
| Peter | Sculthorpe | Sun Music III | 02.06.2025 | Philharmonische Orchester Regensburg | Tom Woods | Regensburg (Neuhaussaal) | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Streichquartett Nr. 4 | 03.06.2025 | Kandinski Quartett | Würzburg (Residenz, Mozartfest) | ||
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 03.06.2025 | Nathalie Stutzmann, Regie: Dmitri Tcherniakov | Brüssel | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | König Karotte | 03.06.2025 | Thilo Borowczak (Schauspieler), Münchner Symphoniker | Philip Todd | München | weitere Termine |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Einkehr für Sopran, Alt, Chor und Orchester - Aufführung des gesamten Zyklus | 05.06.2025 | Nina Koufochristou (Soprano), Evelyn Krahe (Alt), Jenaer Madrigalkreis und Philharmonie | Simon Gaudenz | Jena (Volkshaus) | Uraufführung |
| Dieter | Ammann | The Piano Concerto (Gran Toccata) | 05.06.2025 | Andreas Haefliger (Klavier), Basel Sinfonietta | Titus Engel | Basel (Stadtcasino) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Agrippina | 06.06.2025 | Laurence Cummings, Regie: Walter Sutcliffe | Halle (Oper, Händel-Festspiele) | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Semele | 07.06.2025 | Christine Brandes, Regie: Tomer Zvulun | Atlanta | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Die verlorene Melodie | 08.06.2025 | Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg | Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie) | ||
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Saul | 08.06.2025 | Jonathan Cohen, Regie: Barrie Kosky | Glyndebourne (Festival) | Wiederaufnahme | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Israel in Egypt | 10.06.2025 | Le Concert Spirituel | Hervé Niquet | Halle (Marktkirche, Händel-Festspiele) | |
| Giovanni | Sollima | When We Were Trees | 11.06.2025 | Ensemble Resonanz | Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie) | weitere Termine | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Amadigi di Gaula | 12.06.2025 | Dani Espasa, Regie: Louisa Proske | Halle (Oper, Händel-Festspiele) | Wiederaufnahme | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Clori, Tirsi e Fileno | 13.06.2025 | Michael Hofstetter, Regie: Alberto Pagani | Bad Lauchstädt (Händel-Festspiele Halle, Goethe-Theater) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | 13.06.2025 | Giuseppe Grazioli, Regie: Jean-Christophe Mast | Saint-Etienne | Premiere | |
| Miroslav | Srnka | Voice Killer | 13.06.2025 | Finnegan Downie Dear, Regie: Cordula Däuper | Wien (Theater an der Wien) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 14.06.2025 | Justus Thorau, Regie: Susanne Lietzow | Saarbrücken | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 14.06.2025 | Eun Sun Kim, Regie: Lindy Hume | San Francisco | Premiere | |
| Antonin | Dvorák | Rusalka | 15.06.2025 | Harry Ogg, Regie: Vasily Barkhatov | Düsseldorf | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie (2. Fassung 1878/80) | 15.06.2025 | Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille | Asher Fisch | Marseille (Opéra) | |
| Benjamin | Britten | The Sword in the Stone | 16.06.2025 | Orchesterakademie des Gürzenich-Orchester Köln | Ustina Dubitsky | Köln (Philharmonie) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | 19.06.2025 | Roman Válek, Regie: Jirí Nekvasil | Ostrava (Anton Dvorák Theatre) | Premiere | |
| Oliver | Knussen | Two Organa | 20.06.2025 | Boulez Ensemble | George Benjamin | Berlin (Pierre Boulez Saal) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 20.06.2025 | Stefan Vladar, Regie: Bruno Klimek | Lübeck | Premiere | |
| George | Benjamin | Three Inventions for Chamber Orchestra | 20.06.2025 | Boulez Ensemble | George Benjamin | Berlin (Pierre Boulez Saal) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 20.06.2025 | Leonardo Sini, Regie: Jean-Romain Vesperini | Liège | Premiere | |
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 21.06.2025 | Louis Langrée, Regie: Denis Podalydès | Paris (Opéra Comique) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Zaide | 22.06.2025 | Vlad Iftinca, Regie: Jessica Glause | Ludwigsburg (Residenzschloss) | Premiere | |
| Jaques | Offenbach | La belle Hélène | 22.06.2025 | Miloslav Oswald, Regie: Jaroslav Morav?ík | Opava | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 27.06.2025 | Vladimir Jurowski, Regie: David Hermann | München (Bayerische Staatsoper) | Premiere | |
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | Fidelio | 27.06.2025 | Douglas Boyd, Regie: John Cox | Garsington (Festival) | Premiere | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 28.06.2025 | Dietger Holm, Regie: Anja Kühnhold | Heidelberg | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | 01.07.2025 | Paul Agnew, Regie: Tatjana Gürbaca | Schwetzingen (Schlosstheater) | Premiere | |
| Frank | Martin | Messe für zwei vierstimmige Chöre a cappella | 02.07.2025 | Ensemble Aedes | Mathieu Romano | Reims (Église Saint-André) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Doktor Mirakel | 03.07.2025 | Peter Foggitt, Regie: Florian Hackspiel | München (Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz) | Premiere | |
| George | Benjamin | Picture a day like this | 04.07.2025 | Corinna Niemeyer, Regie: Daniel Jeanneteau | Erl (Tiroler Festspiele) | Premiere | |
| Thomas | Adès | Three-piece Suite from Powder Her Face | 09.07.2025 | Essener Philharmoniker | Andrea Sanguineti | Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) | |
| Ambroise | Thomas | Hamlet | 12.07.2025 | Adrian Kelly, Regie: Jack Furness | Buxton (International Festival) | Premiere | |
| Giovanni | Sollima | When We Were Trees | 16.07.2025 | Stuttgarter Kammerorchester | Susanne von Gutzeit | Ludwigsburg (Forum am Schlosspark) | weitere Termine |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Anima für Alt und Orchester, Enigma für Orchester | 18.07.2025 | Evelyn Krahe (Alt), Jenaer Philharmonie | Simon Gaudenz | Toblach (Mahler Festwochen) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Les pêcheurs de perles | 19.07.2025 | Les Musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski | Aix-en-Provence (Festival International d’Art Lyrique et de Musique) | konzertant |
| Michael | Jarrell | Kassandra | 23.07.2025 | Ensemble Modern | Bas Wiegers | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Streichquartett Nr. 3 | 26.07.2025 | Kuss Quartett | Hitzacker (Sommerliche Musiktage) | ||
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | 26.07.2025 | Emmanuelle Haim, Regie: Dmitri Tcherniakov | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Ballettmusik zur Pantomime „Les petits riens“ | 26.07.2025 | Mozarteumorchester Salzburg | Ivor Bolton | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mitridate | 04.08.2025 | Mozarteumorchester Salzburg | Adam Fischer, Regie: Birgit Kajtna-Wönig | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | Premiere |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mozart-Matinée | 09.08.2025 | Mozarteumorchester Salzburg | Roberto González-Monjas | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXXVIII (schmücke dich, o liebe seele) | 13.08.2025 | Anna-Victoria Baltrusch | Trier (Konstantinbasilika) | ||
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXXVIII (schmücke dich, o liebe seele) | 17.08.2025 | Anna-Victoria Baltrusch | Fulda (Dom St. Salvator) | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | La clemenza di Tito | 24.08.2025 | Michael Hofstetter, Regie: Ralf Meyer | Bad Lauchstädt (Theatersommer, Goethe-Theater) | Premiere | |
| Umberto | Giordano | Andrea Chénier | 25.08.2025 | Mozarteumorchester Salzburg | Marco Armiliato | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Castor et Pollux | 27.08.2025 | Utopia Chor und Orchester | Teodor Currentzis | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Violation für Violoncello und Orchester | 14.09.2025 | Sol Gabetta (Violoncello), Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Luzern (Lucerne Festival) | |
| Miklos | Rozsa | Spellbound Concerto | 25.09.2025 | Giuseppe Albanese (Klavier), Bruckner Orchester Linz | Markus Poschner | Linz (Brucknerhaus) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Viola Concerto „No templates“ | 30.08.2025 | Tabea Zimmermann (Viola) Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra | David Robertson | Luzern (Lucerne Festival) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Viola Concerto „No templates“ | 16.10.2025 | Nils Mönkemeyer (Viola), Münchener Kammerorchester | Bas Wiegers | München (Prinzregententheater) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | englouti, haché | 11.10.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel) | Madrid (Auditorio nacional de Música) | Span. Erstauff. | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 24.10.2025 | Igor Bulla, Regie: Dana Dinková | Banská Bystrica | Premiere |
Philipp Maintz is “Composer in Focus” in Aachen
Philipp Maintz, born in Aachen, returns to his native city as “Composer in Focus” in a season for the anniversary of the Symphony Orchestra. The high point will be the world premiere of his orchestral work “ariadne faden”.
In the 2024/25 season the Theater Aachen celebrates its 200th anniversary. Appropriately, for its “Composer in Focus” Philipp Maintz, a local boy, has been chosen. Maintz was born in 1977 in Aachen, grew up and was educated there. That is where he took his first steps in music and made his first public appearance with his first compositions. He “almost lived at certain times” in the well-organised music section of the public library where he “worked through the history of music” (Maintz). Alongside scores by Berio, Penderecki, Reimann and Stockhausen he also encountered editions by his future publisher for the first time.
The composer has a special relationship to the Theater Aachen. Here, he saw his first contemporary opera, Marat by Walter Haupt – a “great spectacle” and an impressive and formative experience. From that day onwards he harboured the wish to also write such a great opera in “wide-screen format”. In 2008 his second orchestral work, archipel, was premiered by the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, and the composer still remembers the “tumultuous applause” after the performances. Two years later, the Theater Aachen produced Maintz’s first opera “Maldoror” with the Munich Biennale – a successful production which was also very well-received by audiences. “That was an exciting time and quite simply brought me a great deal of pleasure”, the composer recalls. His pleasure at being able to work with the Aachen Symphony Orchestra again is all the greater.
On 22 and 23 September the first German performances of the Concerto for Piano and Large Orchestra took place, conducted by Aachen Music Director Christopher Ward with pianist Joonas Ahonen. As well as a chamber concert and an ensemble concert, organ music by Philipp Maintz in Aachen Cathedral also features in the anniversary season programme. But the high point of the collaboration will be the first performance of his new orchestral work “ariadne faden” in the fourth Symphony Concert on 16 and 17 February 2025, conducted by Marc Niemann. As earlier in his preceding orchestral work “der zerfall einer illusion in farbige scherben” [The disintegration of an illusion into coloured shards] (world premiere: Cologne 22.6.2024), Maintz has again used an accordion in his new score, an instrument which is not typically found in the forces of a classical orchestra. Thus it can spin threads and lines, as it were “from outside”, which “stimulate the orchestra and make it bloom”. The special idea of the piece, hinted at in both the title and the subtitle, is the study of the classical form of sonata first movement form. The contemplation of the sequence of thesis – antithesis – synthesis experiences a new perspective alongside the formal and the melodic-harmonic – that of instrumental colour. This new perspective also says “something about our time, in the way that the unusual and the atypical can depict a special enrichment”. And it is no coincidence that the composer is preoccupied with this idea in this commission for the Aachen Symphony Orchestra: “For where better to unfold this narrative than with the orchestra of a city which lies in the centre of Europe and where, since my childhood, it has been completely natural to me to look beyond my own horizons.”
Robert Krampe
(translation: Elizabeth Robinson / from [t]akte 2/2024)
Bärenreiter donates special prizes at the International Piano Competition in Kronberg
Jan Čmejla, first prize recipient of this year’s Bach Competition receives the Bärenreiter Urtext Prize.
Beat Furrer’s opera “DAS GROSSE FEUER” based on Sara Gallardo’s novel “Eisejuaz” will premiere at Zurich Opera House on March 23, 2025
Siegbert Rampe, protagonist of Early Music, died on February 2, 2025
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini adds “Enigma” to his cycle of works on Gustav Mahler’s symphonies.
First German performance of Miroslav Srnka’s “Superorganisms” in Berlin
From a radically different world: the layers in Beat Furrer’s opera “Das grosse Feuer” (“The Great Fire”), based on the novel “Eisejuaz” by Sara Gallardo, are many and diverse. The world premiere takes place in Zurich in March 2025.
A strong plot, and fabulously imaginative music: but until now Handel’s “Giustino” has not been one of his most frequently-performed operas. With the new edition this could all change.
Franz Schubert’s stage works have never become firmly established in the repertoire. And yet they contain interesting examples of Romantic opera aesthetics. And with the 2028 Schubert anniversary year in mind, they offer a variety of opportunities for productions.
Bedřich Smetana’s autograph score of “Vltava” (The Moldau) was published in a true to original facsimile edition.
