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. For the 2020/21 season, BOZAR Brussels and the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège commissioned the concerto for organ and orchestra “de figuris” for the organist László Fassang, as well as a new version of the “piano concerto”, which was premiered by Joonas Ahonen and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop. In the summer of 2022, the Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon performed the orchestral work “red china green house” at the Cologne Philharmonie, followed in 2024 by the world premiere of the work “der zerfall einer illusion in farbige scherben” by the WDR Symphony Orchestra under Sylvain Cambreling.
In the 2024/25 season, Philipp Maintz will be portrayed in his hometown of Aachen as Composer in Focus of the local symphony orchestra with four major works, including a world premiere. A highlight of this season is the performance of his cello concerto “upon a moment’s shallow rim” with Johannes Moser as soloist and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Markus Poschner in Berlin. In addition, the works “jag die hunde zurück!” for six sopranos and six percussionists will be performed for the first time by Christoph Sietzen, his ensemble MOTUS and the ladies of the WDR Rundfunkchor at the Cologne Philharmonie and Wien Modern, and his second string quartet “maintenant. pas encore. plus jamais.” will be performed by the Quatuor Diotima at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Brucknerhaus in Linz.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | |
| Georg Philipp | Telemann | Brockes-Passion | 18.04.2025 | Lautten Compagney | Kai-Uwe Jirka | Berlin (Gethsemanekirche) | |
| 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 |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | König Karotte | 24.04.2025 | Stephan Hübner (Sprecher), Orchester des Staatstheaters Darmstadt | Arturs Oskars Mitrevics | Darmstadt | |
| 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. |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | La Resurrezione | 25.04.2025 | Les Arts Florissants | Paul Agnew | Lucon (Cathédrale) | auch 30.4. Paris |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Thamos, König in Ägypten | 26.04.2025 | Mozarteumorchester | Howard Griffiths | Wels (Stadttheater Greif) | |
| 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 |
| Matthew | Hindson | Maralinga | 04.05.2025 | Göttinger Symphonie Orchester | Nicolò Umberto Foron | Göttingen (Stadthalle) | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Conduct für Orgel mit zwei Spielern | 04.05.2025 | Düsseldorf (Tersteegenkirche) | |||
| Ludwig van | Beethoven | Fidelio | 04.05.2025 | Will Humburg, Regie: Evelyn Herlitzius | Wiesbaden (Internationale Maifestspiele) | ||
| Beat | Furrer | Akusmata | 04.05.2025 | PHACE - Ensemble für neue Musik | Cordula Bürgi | Wien (Konzerthaus) | |
| Matthew | Hindson | Maralinga | 04.05.2025 | Tassilo Probst (Violine), Göttinger Symphonie Orchester | Nicolò Umberto Foron | Göttingen (Stadthalle) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | englouti für orgel solo | 04.05.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel) | Leipzig (Gewandhaus) | ||
| 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. |
| 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 | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 9. Sinfonie | 08.05.2025 | NDR Radiophilharmonie | Cornelius Meister | Hannover (NDR Konzerthaus) | |
| 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. |
| Bohuslav | Martinu | Nonett Nr. 2 | 09.05.2025 | Sinfonietta VivazzA | Düsseldorf (Gerhard-Hauptmann-Haus) | ||
| 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) | |
| 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 | |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Pigmalion (Auswahl) | 10.05.2025 | SWR Symphonieorchester | Matthew Halls | Schwetzingen (Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schlosstheater) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 2. Symphonie | 14.05.2025 | Meininger Hofkapelle | Cornelius Meister | Meiningen | |
| 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 | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Messe in c-Moll | 16.05.2025 | Münchner Oratorienchor, Nürnberger Symphoniker | Stellario Fagone | München (Herkulessaal) | |
| 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 | |
| Michael | Daugherty | Dead Elvis | 22.05.2025 | Bad Reichenhaller Philharmonie | Daniel Spaw | Bad Reichenhall (Konzertrotunde am Königlichen Kurgarten) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | englouti | 22.05.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel und Moderation) | Siena (Accademia Musicale Chigiana) | Ital. Erstauff. | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 6. Symphonie | 23.05.2025 | Luxembourg Philharmonic | Gustavo Gimeno | Luxemburg | |
| Bohuslav | Martinu | Rhapsody-Concerto | 23.05.2025 | Dana Zemtsov (Viola), Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen | Modestas Pitrenas | St. Gallen | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Nils Holgersson | 23.05.2025 | Staatskapelle Weimar | Andreas Wolf | Weimar | |
| 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 | |
| Georges | Bizet | Le Docteur Miracle | 24.05.2025 | Sora Elisabeth Lee, Regie: Pierre Lebon | Paris (Théatre du Chatelet) | Premiere | |
| Joseph | Haydn | Il ritorno di Tobia | 24.05.2025 | Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra | György Vashegyi | Budapest (Academy of Music) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 24.05.2025 | Ben Glassberg, Regie: Lotte de Beer | Wien (Volksoper) | Premiere | |
| Bedrich | Smetana | Mein Vaterland | 25.05.2025 | Norddeutsche Philharmonie | Marcus Bosch | Rostock | |
| 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 | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 29.05.2025 | Jordan de Souza, Regie: Carlos Wagner | Düsseldorf | 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 | |
| George | Benjamin | At first Light | 30.05.2025 | Ensemble Modern | Michael Wendeberg | Prag (Festival Prager Frühling, Dox+) | |
| George | Benjamin | Into the little hill | 31.05.2025 | Ensemble Modern | George Benjamin | Prag (Festival Prager Frühling, Dox+) | |
| Oliver | Knussen | Songs without Voices | 31.05.2025 | Ensemble Modern | George Benjamin | Prag (Festival Prager Frühling, Dox+) | |
| 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 | Mario Venzago, 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) | |
| Beat | Furrer | still | 03.06.2025 | Klangforum Wien | Rodrigo Sàmano, Luis Castillo-Briceno | Rotterdam (De Doelen) | |
| 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 Prothmann (Sprecher), Münchner Symphoniker | Philip Todd | München | weitere Termine |
| Anton | Bruckner | 7. Symphonie | 05.06.2025 | Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI | Fabio Luisi | Turin (Auditorium Rai "Arturo Toscanini") | |
| 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 | |
| Matthias | Pintscher | Neharot | 08.06.2025 | Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin | Matthias Pintscher | Berlin (Konzerthaus) | |
| 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 | |
| Lucia | Ronchetti | Le Palais du silence | 09.06.2025 | Klangforum Wien | Irene Delgado-Jimenez | Wien (Wiener Festwochen, ORF Radiokulturhaus) | |
| 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 | |
| Bohuslav | Martinu | Rhapsody-Concerto | 12.06.2025 | Sara Ferrández (Viola), Konzerthausorchester | Ustina Dubitsky | Berlin (Konzerthaus) | |
| 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 | Idomeneo | 14.06.2025 | Eun Sun Kim, Regie: Lindy Hume | San Francisco | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 14.06.2025 | Justus Thorau, Regie: Susanne Lietzow | Saarbrücken | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Alcina | 15.06.2025 | Julia Jones, Regie: Johannes Erath | Frankfurt | 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 | |
| Eric | Coates | Calling All Workers, Knightsbridge March | 20.06.2025 | Norddeutsche Philharmonie | Marcus Bosch | Rostock (Zoo) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 20.06.2025 | Emily Senturia, Regie: E. Loren Meeker | Vienna (Wolf Trap Opera, The Barns) | Premiere | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 20.06.2025 | Stefan Vladar, Regie: Bruno Klimek | Lübeck | Premiere | |
| Oliver | Knussen | Two Organa | 20.06.2025 | Boulez Ensemble | George Benjamin | Berlin (Pierre Boulez Saal) | |
| 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 | |
| Francesco | Cavalli | L’Ercole amante | 27.06.2025 | Antonio Greco, Regie: Andrea Bernard | Cremona (Monteverdi-Festival, Teatro A. Ponchielli) | 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 | La Resurrezione | 01.07.2025 | George Petrou, Regie: Ilaria Lanzino | Rom (Basilica di Massenzio) | 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 | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 04.07.2025 | Sir Simon Rattle, Regie: Robert Icke | Aix-en-Provence (Festival International d’Art Lyrique et de Musique) | 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 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 18.07.2025 | Laurent Wagner, Regie: Igor Folwill | Eutin (Neue Eutiner Festspiele) | Premiere | |
| Andrea Lorenzo | Scartazzini | Enigma für Orchester | 18.07.2025 | 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 |
| Beat | Furrer | Prophezeiungen – für Alt, Kontrabassklarinette und Akkordeon | 19.07.2025 | Helena Sorokina (Alt)/Marco Sala (Kontrabassklarinette)/Krassimir Sterev (Akkordeon)/Cantando Admont | Cordula Bürgi | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele, Kollegienkirche) | |
| Michael | Jarrell | Kassandra | 23.07.2025 | Ensemble Modern | Bas Wiegers | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | 26.07.2025 | Emmanuelle Haim, Regie: Dmitri Tcherniakov | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | Premiere | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Streichquartett Nr. 3 | 26.07.2025 | Kuss Quartett | Hitzacker (Sommerliche Musiktage) | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Ballettmusik zur Pantomime „Les petits riens“ | 26.07.2025 | Mozarteumorchester Salzburg | Ivor Bolton | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Beat | Furrer | Prophezeiungen – für Alt, Kontrabassklarinette und Akkordeon | 27.07.2025 | Helena Sorokina (Alt)/Marco Sala (Kontrabassklarinette)/Krassimir Sterev (Akkordeon)/Cantando Admont | Cordula Bürgi | Ossiach (Carinthischer Sommer, Stiftskirche) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Mitridate | 04.08.2025 | Mozarteumorchester Salzburg | Adam Fischer, Regie: Birgit Kajtna-Wönig | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | Premiere |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXXVII (so nimm denn meine hände) choralvorspiel XXXVII (so nimm denn meine hände) | 07.08.2025 | Leo van Doeselaar (Orgel) | Kampen (Bovenkerk) | Niederländische Erstauff. | |
| Eric | Coates | London Bridge March | 09.08.2025 | Nürnberger Symphoniker | Jonathan Darlington | Nürnberg | |
| 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) | ||
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 15.08.2025 | José Luis Gómez, Regie: John de los Santos | Vienna (Wolf Trap Opera, Filene Center) | Premiere | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 5. Symphonie | 17.08.2025 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach | Sonderburg (Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Koncertsalen Alsion) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel XXXVIII (schmücke dich, o liebe seele) | 17.08.2025 | Anna-Victoria Baltrusch | Fulda (Dom St. Salvator) | ||
| Frank | Martin | Messe für zwei vierstimmige Chöre a cappella | 17.08.2025 | Landesjugendchor Sachsen-Anhalt | Berit Walther, Wolfgang Kupke | Blankenburg (Kloster Michaelstein) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel III (die nacht ist vorgedrungen) für orgel solo | 22.08.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel) | Berlin (Internationaler Orgelsommer, Dom) | ||
| 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) | |
| Anton | Bruckner | 4. Symphonie | 26.08.2025 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Yannick Nezet-Seguin | Luzern (Lucerne Festival, KKL) | |
| Jean-Philippe | Rameau | Castor et Pollux | 27.08.2025 | Utopia Chor und Orchester | Teodor Currentzis | Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 27.08.2025 | Tarmo Peltokoski, Regie: Romain Gilbert | Bremen (Die Glocke) | halbszenisch | |
| Jirí Antonín (Georg Anton) | Benda | Medea | 30.08.2025 | Akademie für Alte Musik | Bernhard Forck | Köln (Philharmonie) | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Viola Concerto „No templates“ | 30.08.2025 | Tabea Zimmermann (Viola) Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra | David Robertson | Luzern (Lucerne Festival) | |
| Beat | Furrer | Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 | 03.09.2025 | Francesco Piemontesi (Klavier), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | Jonathan Nott | Genf (Victoria Hall) | Urauff., auch 4.9. Genf |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | König Karotte | 07.09.2025 | Jörg Schade (Sprecher) | Daniel Huppert | Solingen | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 11.09.2025 | Meret Lüthi, Regie: Anna Drescher | Biel | Premiere | |
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 12.09.2025 | Giampaolo Bisanti, Regie: Thaddeus Strassberger | Liège | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 13.09.2025 | Matthias Foremny, Yura Yang, Regie: Katharina Thoma | Leipzig | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Violation für Violoncello und Orchester | 14.09.2025 | Sol Gabetta (Violoncello), Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Luzern (Lucerne Festival) | |
| Christoph Willibald | Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | 14.09.2025 | Music of the Baroque | Jane Glover | Skokie (North Shore Center) | |
| Othmar | Schoeck | Penthesilea | 20.09.2025 | Daniel Carter, Regie: Valentin Schwarz | Weimar | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 20.09.2025 | Carlo Benedetto Cimento, Regie: Alexandra Liedtke | Salzburg ( Landestheater) | Premiere | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 21.09.2025 | Thomas Guggeis, Regie: Mariame Clément | Frankfurt | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Solomon | 21.09.2025 | Gli Scarlattisti | Jochen Arnold | Hildesheim (Michaeliskirche) | |
| Miklos | Rozsa | Spellbound Concerto | 25.09.2025 | Giuseppe Albanese (Klavier), Bruckner Orchester Linz | Markus Poschner | Linz (Brucknerhaus) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Idomeneo | 27.09.2025 | Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester | Johannes Braun, Regie: Philipp Westerbarkei | Graz | Premiere |
| Antonín | Dvorák | Rusalka | 27.09.2025 | Alan Gilbert, Regie: Netia Jones | Stockholm | Premiere | |
| Beat | Furrer | PHAOS für Orchester | 28.09.2025 | Basel Sinfonietta | Titus Engel | Basel (Stadtcasino) | Schweizer Erstauff. |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | König Karotte | 05.10.2025 | Jörg Schade (Sprecher) | Tim Hüttemeister | Göttingen | auch 6.10. |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel IX (erbarm dich mein, o herre gott) für orgel solo | 06.10.2025 | Henry Fairs (Orgel) | Berlin (Maria unter dem Kreuz, Vierter Orgelzyklus) | ||
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Così fan tutte | 10.10.2025 | Sieva Borzak, Regie: Vincent Dujardin | Liège | Premiere | |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Acis and Galatea | 11.10.2025 | Chœur de chambre de Namur, Cappella Mediterranea | Leonardo Garcia-Alarcon | Genf (La Cité Bleue) | |
| Philipp | Maintz | englouti, haché | 11.10.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel) | Madrid (Auditorio nacional de Música) | Span. Erstauff. | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 12.10.2025 | Mario Hartmuth, Regie: Bastian Kraft | Hannover | Premiere | |
| Dieter | Ammann | Viola Concerto „No templates“ | 16.10.2025 | Nils Mönkemeyer (Viola), Münchener Kammerorchester | Bas Wiegers | München (Prinzregententheater) | |
| Georges | Bizet | Carmen | 18.10.2025 | Domonkos Héja, Regie: Aileen Schneider | Augsburg (Martini-Park) | Premiere | |
| Manfred | Trojahn | Herbstmusik - Sinfonischer Satz | 23.10.2025 | Tiroler Symphonieorchester | Gerrit Prießnitz | Innsbruck (Congress) | auch 24.10. |
| Anders | Hillborg | King Tide | 24.10.2025 | Antwerp Symphony Orchestra | Andrew Manze | Gent (Muziekcentrum De Bijloke) | auch 25.10. Antwerpen |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | 24.10.2025 | Igor Bulla, Regie: Dana Dinková | Banská Bystrica | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Jack und die Bohnenranke | 26.10.2025 | Elke Kottmair (Erzählerin), Augsburger Philharmoniker | Domonkos Héja | Augsburg (Martini-Park) | auch 27.10. |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Das Mondklavier | 29.10.2025 | Staatsorchester Darmstadt | Darmstadt | auch 30.10. | |
| Beat | Furrer | PHAOS für Orchester | 02.11.2025 | Basel Sinfonietta | Titus Engel | Essen (Philharmonie) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 12.11.2025 | Giuseppe Grazioli, Regie: Cédric Klapisch | Saint-Etienne | Premiere | |
| Andreas N. | Tarkmann | Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse | 15.11.2025 | Robert Naefgen (Sprecher) Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden | Philippe Bach | Chur (Martinskirche) | drei Aufführungen |
| Georg Friedrich | Händel | Saul | 23.11.2025 | Rubén Dubrovsky, Regie: Barrie Kosky | Köln | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | jag die hunde zurück! für sechs soprane und sechs schlagzeuger | 29.11.2025 | Nadja Senatskaya, Szófia Bódi, Inga Balzer-Wolf, Carolina Vélez Murcia, Haeeun Kim, Manuela Viera | Wien (Festival Wien Modern, Konzerthaus) | Österr. Erstaufführung | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 30.11.2025 | Jonathan Bloxham, Regie: Christine Cyris | Luzern | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | haché für orgel solo, englouti für orgel solo | 09.12.2025 | Angela Metzger (Orgel) | München (musica viva, Herkulessaal der Residenz) | ||
| Charles | Gounod | Faust | 13.12.2025 | National Radio Choir, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest | Stéphane Denève | Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | Don Giovanni | 14.12.2025 | Francesco Corti, Regie: Tom Goossens | Gent | Premiere | |
| Philipp | Maintz | choralvorspiel II (rorate cæli desuper) für orgel solo | 14.12.2025 | Andreas Sieling (Orgel) | Berlin (Dom) | Uraufführung | |
| Guido | Masanetz | In Frisco ist der Teufel los | 21.12.2025 | Kai Tietje, Regie: Martin G. Berger | Berlin (Komische Oper, Schillertheater) | 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)
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