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This article is for major events and other topics related to classical music in 2025.

Events

• 1 January
  • At the 2025 Vienna New Year's Concert, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Riccardo Muti perform the Ferdinandus-Walzer of Constanze Geiger, the first music by a female composer ever performed in the Vienna Philharmonic's Neujahrskonzert. The orchestra and conductor featured the same Constanze Geiger selection in the 30 December 2024 and 31 December 2024 performances at the Musikverein of the same programme.
  • The new all-female ensemble La Philharmonica gives its inaugural concert at the Ehrbarsaal, Vienna, with a programme of music by Leopoldine Blahetka, Gisela Frankl, Constanze Geiger, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Mathilde Kralik, Johann Strauss II, Maria Anna Stubenberg, and Josephine Amann-Weinlich.

New works

• Steven Mackey – The Ancestors: ballet in eight tableaux
• Philipp Maintz – jag die hunde zurück! (for six sopranos and six percussionists, after Ingeborg Bachmann)
• David Matthews – Serenade and Tango
• Joey Roukens – Violin Concerto ('Out of the Deep')
• Nina Shehkar – Accordion Concerto
• Thomas Simaku – Catena IV

Recordings

• Ruth Gipps – 'Orchestral Works, Vol. 3' (including first recording of her Symphony No. 1)
• Francesco Scarlatti – Daniele (first recording)

Deaths

• 1 January
  • Jean-Michel Defaye, French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor, 92
  • Nora Orlandi (Joan Christian), Italian pianist, violinist, soprano and composer, 91
• 2 January – Wilhelm Brückner, German luthier, 92
• 7 January – Ayla Erduran, Turkish violinist, 90
• 9 January – Otto Schenk, Austrian opera director and actor, 94
• 11 January – Mario Klemens, Czech conductor, 88
• 13 January – Elgar Howarth, English conductor, composer and trumpeter, 89

Major awards

2025 Musical America Award Winners

• Artist of the Year: Barbara Hannigan
• Composer of the Year: Jake Heggie
• Instrumentalist of the Year: Víkingur Ólafsson
• Vocalist of the Year: Angel Blue
• Director of the Year: James Robinson

References

1. "Neujahrskonzert mit Muti und Premiere". ORF. 30 December 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
2. "Neujahrskonzert der Philharmonikerinnen". ORF. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
3. "Wigmore Hall: Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival programme, 3 January 2025". Wigmore Hall. 3 January 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
4. "A Season of Premieres and Noteable Performances for Philipp Maintz". Schott Music EAM. 20 December 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
5. "Wigmore Hall: Nash Ensemble / Lucy Crowe / Geoffrey Paterson programme, 3 January 2025". Wigmore Hall. 10 January 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
6. Eric Dundon (3 December 2024). "Composer Nina Shekhar on Writing an Accordion Concerto". Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
7. "Wigmore Hall: Danny Driver programme, 2 January 2025". Wigmore Hall. 2 January 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
8. Erica Jeal (2 January 2025). "Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works vol 3 album review – an ambitious symphony and a bittersweet miniature". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
9. Andrew Clements (2 January 2025). "Scarlatti: Daniele album review – unearthed oratorio takes listener into the lion's den". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
10. "Le compositeur français Jean-Michel Defaye, arrangeur de Léo Ferré, est mort à l'âge de 92 ans". Le Figaro (in French). 2 January 2025. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
11. "Addio a Nora Orlandi, aveva 91 anni". Spettakolo!. 1 January 2025. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
12. "Ältester Geigenbaumeister Deutschlands gestorben". MDR.DE (in German). 3 January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
13. "World-renowned Turkish violinist Ayla Erduran dies at 90". Türkiye Today. 8 January 2025. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
14. A. J. Goldmann (9 January 2025). "Otto Schenk, Opera Director and Bulwark of Tradition, Dies at 94". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
15. "Renowned conductor Mario Klemens passes away at 88". Radio Prague International. 12 January 2025.
16. "Elgar Howarth, trumpeter and conductor who worked with Harrison Birtwistle and The Beatles". The Telegraph. 16 January 2025.
17. Susan Elliott (20 November 2024). "Hannigan Tops Musical America 2025 Artist of the Year Awards". Musical America. Retrieved 10 January 2025.

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