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– Tue 16 Sep: Cycles - A feast of Orchestral Song Cadogan Hall, London, UK
– Wed 17 Sep: Gloria in Re Maggiore Arezzo, Italy
– Sat 20 Sep: Messa Clementina II a 5 voci e Stabat Mater a 10 voci Turin, Italy
– Mon 22 Sep: Messa Clementina II a 5 voci e Stabat Mater a 10 voci Brescia, Italy
– Sun 28 Sep: New Music for Saxophone Pima College, Tucson, Arizona, USA

– Musikpreis Salzburg 2009 awarded to Klaus Huber 11 Aug 2008
– Wagstaff's Piano Quintet released on CD 6 Aug 2008
– Statue unveiled to honour Séan Ó Riada 4 Aug 2008
– Norman Dello Joio dies at 95 29 Jul 2008

Birthdays:
– Dennis DeSantis
– Daniel Palkowski
– Reinbert de Leeuw
– Peter Maxwell Davies
– Rene Touzet
Dying days:
– Louis Thomas Hardin
– Frederick May
– Richard Strauss
– Carlo Gesualdo
Events:
– (1991) Peteris Vasks: Premiere of Symphony for Strings “Voices”, in Kokkola, Finland.
– (1961) Earle Brown: Premiere of Available Forms I, in Darmstadt, Germany.
– (1825) Franz Schubert: Premiere of Mass in C major D 452, in Vienna, Austria.

– Jiří Kadeřábek (8 Sep)
– Albert Pieczonka (8 Sep)
– François-André Philidor (8 Sep)
– Pehr Henrik Nordgren (6 Sep)
– Boris Berlin (5 Sep)
– Herman Berlinski (5 Sep)
– Johan Daniel Berlin (5 Sep)
– Victor Schlesinger (5 Sep)
– Anton Berlijn (5 Sep)
– Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (4 Sep)

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Born: 22 August 1970 — Balerna (TI) — Switzerland

Died:

• Schlaflos, Chamber Opera, 2003
• Mysterium Lunae, Chorus Composition, 1995
• Carnation, Opera (aboutCarl von Cosel), 2004

Nadir Vassena was born in Balerna (Switzerland). He studied composition in Milan under Bruno Zanolani and in Freiburg im Breisgau under Johannes Schöllhorn.

He has received numerous invitations to renowned festivals for new music and came away with many accolades, examples include the competition organised by the ‘Westdeutschen Rundfunk’ (West German Radio) in Cologne 1992, the Music Institute of the ‘Hochschule der Künste’ (School of Arts) in Berlin 1994 (first prize ex aequo), and the Mozart Competition in Salzburg 1997, he was also awarded the Christoph-Delz Foundation Prize.

Nadir Vassena was a scholar of the ‘Akademie Schloss Solitude’ in Stuttgart in 2000/2001, of the ‘Denkmalschmiede Höfgen/Margarethen Foundation’ in 2002, and a member of the Swiss Institute in Rome 2002/2003. He lectures in composition and analysis at the ‘Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana’ (music school) and has been a member of the board of directors there since 2004. Nadir Vassena, together with Mats Scheidegger, is director of the ‘Tage für Neue Musik Zürich’.

• http://web.ticino.com/nadir/
• http://www.musinfo.ch/index.php?content=maske_personen&pers_id=106&action=open_it

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