Simon Rattle

Emre Şener is among the composers to take part in the '200 Pieces' project that will mark the bicentenary celebrations of the Royal Academy of Music in the U.K.

The Royal Academy of Music, one of the world's top five music schools, has commissioned 200 musicians to compose pieces to mark the occasion.

As part of the 50th Istanbul Music Festival, Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska will take the stage at the Atatürk Culture Center (AKM) on June 9. At the concert, she will share the stage with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena and the current music director of the London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, partners in life and in art, will be at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) for a classical recital that will see Rattle at the piano in one of his rare appearances as musician. Program details are available on the SNFCC's website.

The Goethe Institute in Sofia will steam live concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic, sources of the Institute said.

Out of hundreds of Goethe Institutes all over the planet, the one in Sofia is one of the very few, which is permitted to take part in this program.

The Athens Concert Hall is hosting a live broadcast of Richard Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" from New York's Metropolitan Opera on Saturday, October 8. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra is led by Sir Simon Rattle while the cast features Nina Stemme (Isolde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangane), Stuart Skelton (Tristan), Evgeny Nikitin (Kurwenal) and Rene Pape (King Marke). With Greek subtitles.

Sisters Güher and Süher Pekinel will take the stage on Dec 15 for a recital accompanied by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra percussionists Raphael Haeger and Simon RösslerInternationally-renowned Turkish pianist sisters Güher and Süher Pekinel will perform a recital accompanied by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra percussionists Raphael Haeger and Simon Rössler on Dec.

The 22nd George Enescu festival, an event that celebrates the work of Romania's great composer, has over 100 events scheduled to take place by September 20 in Bucharest and other cities.

The prestigious Berliner Philharmoniker’s European Concert will take place at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron Mousikis) on Labour Day (May 1), with Greek star violinist Leonidas Kavakos as the soloist, the Philharmonic announced on Thursday.

NOVI SAD - An international festival of classical music dubbed Novi Sad Music Festival - NOMUS 2015 will open Tuesday with a performance of the NOMUS Festival Orchestra conducted by Lars Vogt, a German conductor and pianist.

American conductor Mark Stringer is for the first time in Romania to perform Giuseppe Verdi's "Messa da Requiem" at the "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theatre of Iasi.

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