Monthly Archives: January 2023

In close cooperation with the Furore Verlag and other institutions the concept for Raphaela Gromes’ new album FEMMES was born: a double album with works by 23 women composers. The world premiere recording of the “Tre Momenti” for cello and string orchestra by Italian composer Matilde Capuis can be heard on FEMMES.

“With FEMMES, I can finally make the works and life stories of these wonderful women accessible to a wide audience,” says Raphaela Gromes about her new album, which will be released by Sony Classical. Raphaela Gromes is accompanied on FEMMES by Festival Strings Lucerne and its artistic director Daniel Dodds, with whom she has a long-standing collaboration, as well as by pianist Julian Riem, who also wrote all the arrangements on the album.

FEMMES is available for pre-order now and in stores from February 3, 2023: f.e. here

Chinese/Canadian composer Hope Lee turned 70 on January 14, 2023. Congratulations!

Hope Lee was born in Taiwan in 1953 and immigrated to Canada in 1967. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto before going on to McGill University to study piano and composition. Further studies in composition took her to the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, in Breisgau, Germany, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany) and the Durham Oriental Music Festival in England. Among her composition teachers were Bengt Hambraeus, Brian Cherney, and Klaus Huber. Between 1987 and 1990 Lee studied Chinese traditional music and poetry, as well as computer music, in Berkeley, California. Lee has composed music for various combinations of instruments, almost exclusively for chamber ensembles. Many have been performed at international music festivals and have won major awards. She has been engaged as a guest composer at festivals and universities in Asia, Europe and Canada. Hope‘s work can be heard on Attacca (Germany/Holland), Aurait (Italy), Centrediscs, SNE and UNICAL (Canada) recording labels.  Furore-Verlag publishes all her works.

“Ms. Lee is one of Canada’s most accomplished composers who …

The Mecklenburg composer Emilie Mayer, whose life dates are almost identical to those of Richard Wagner, was amazingly successful in her time, her works were performed, many of them appeared in print. After her death from pneumonia in 1883, however, she was forgotten surprisingly quickly.

2023 marks the 140th anniversary of her death († April 10, 1883 in Berlin). A number of retrospectives are planned for this occasion, including by the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt/Oder.
Furore Verlag has edited many piano and chamber music works such as string quintets, string quartets and piano trios as well as her three overtures, the piano concerto and the symphonies  3, 4 and 5/7. More info here

A catalog of works with biographical notes is available free of charge from the publisher and is available online as a pdf here.