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Overview of the events of 2010 in classical music
Steven Bryant – Concerto for Wind Ensemble [ 4]
Mehdi Hosseini
Taleshi Hava , for solo violin and bassoon
An Unfinished Draft , for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and baritone
Pause , for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and tubular bells
Wojciech Kilar – The Solemn Overture , for symphony orchestra
Fred 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 orchestra
Powiało na mnie morze snów... Pieśni zadumy i nostalgii (A sea of dreams did breathe on me... Songs of reverie and nostalgia)
Duo concertante , for violin and double bass
Tanz , for solo viola
Steve Reich – WTC 9/11
Kaija Saariaho – Mirages [ 5]
Esa-Pekka Salonen – Nyx , for orchestra[ 6]
Johannes Maria Staud
On Comparative Meteorology , for orchestra
Contrebande (On Comparative Meteorology II) , for orchestra
Tondo Preludio , for orchestra
Chant d'amour , for ensemble
Manfred Trojahn – Herbstmusik , for orchestra
Graham Waterhouse – Chinese Whispers
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
January 8 – Otmar Suitner , Austrian conductor, 87
January 22 – Surendran Reddy , South African pianist and composer, 47
January 23 – Earl Wild , US pianist, 94
February 2 – Nelli Shkolnikova , Russian violinist, 81
February 9 – Jacques Hétu , Canadian composer and music teacher, 71
February 11 – Irina Arkhipova , Russian operatic mezzo-soprano and later contralto, 85
February 17 – Kathryn Grayson , 88, American soprano and film star
February 18 – Ariel Ramírez , Argentine composer, 88
March – Farman Behboud , Iranian pianist and piano teacher, 63
March 4 – Amalie Christie , Norwegian classical pianist, author and anthroposophist, 96
March 5 – Philip Langridge , English operatic tenor, 70
March 17 – Ştefan Gheorghiu , Romanian violinist, 83
March 23 – Blanche Thebom , 91, American mezzo-soprano
April 1 – Morag Beaton , 83, Scottish-Australian soprano
April 10 – William Walker , 78, American baritone and General Director of the Fort Worth Opera
April 27 – Morris Pert , Scottish percussionist, pianist and composer, 62
April 29 – Johannes Fritsch , German composer, 68
May 5 – Giulietta Simionato , Italian operatic mezzo-soprano, 99
May 17 – Yvonne Loriod , French pianist, teacher, and composer, 86
May 24 – Anneliese Rothenberger , 83, German soprano
May 25 – Siphiwo Ntshebe , South African operatic tenor, 35 (meningitis)
June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei , Italian operatic baritone, 93
June 5 – Arne Nordheim , Norwegian composer, 78
June 12 – Fuat Mansurov , Russian conductor, 82
June 14 – Giacinto Prandelli , Italian operatic tenor, 96
June 18 – Kalmen Opperman , American clarinetist, teacher, conductor and instrument maker, 90
July 1 – John Paynter , British composer and music educator, 78
July 5 – Cesare Siepi , 87, Italian bass
July 12 – John Douglas , American conductor, voice teacher and accompanist, 54 (melanoma)
July 14 – Sir Charles Mackerras , Australian conductor, 84
July 15 – Luo Pinchao , Chinese opera singer, 98
June 16 – Maureen Forrester , 79, Canadian contralto
July 21 – Anthony Rolfe Johnson , British tenor, 69
August 6 – Cacilda Borges Barbosa , Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer, 96
September 11 – Herbert Grossman , American conductor, 83
September 12 – Charles Ansbacher , American conductor, 67
September 19 – László Polgár , Hungarian operatic bass, 63
September 21 – Geoffrey Burgon , British film and TV score composer, 69
September 28 – Dolores Wilson , American operatic soprano, 82
October 10
October 30 – Morris Pert , Scottish composer, drummer /percussionist and pianist, 62
November 2 – Rudolf Barshai , Russian violist and composer, 86
November 5 – Shirley Verrett , American mezzo-soprano, 79
November 12 – Henryk Górecki , Polish composer, 74
November 30 – Peter Hofmann , German operatic tenor, 66
December 6 – Hugues Cuénod , Swiss operatic tenor, 108
December 7 – Sergiu Luca , Romanian violinist, 67
December 15 – Hilde Rössel-Majdan , Austrian operatic contralto, 89
December 16 – Richard Adeney , British flautist, 90
Pulitzer Prize in Music [ edit ]
Composer's Guild Grand Prize[ edit ]