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On Thursday the 16th of December 2010, the new Berio-Saal, sponsored by Kapsch, was inaugurated in the historic Konzerthaus complex in Vienna. The event was capped by an extraordinary Hommage à Luciano Berio with the performance of Quattro canzoni popolari, Sequenza I, Momenti, Naturale, Altra voce and Sequenza XIII, and the participation of Alda Caiello, Mario Caroli, Garth Knox, Krassimir Sterev, Lukas Schiske, Marino Formenti and Tempo Reale.

Prolegomena by Talia Pecker Berio.

On Friday, December 3rd, as part of the 2010-2011 musical season of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain presented a concert dedicated entirely to the Sequenzas by Luciano Berio. They put themselves through their paces with the performance of a selection of Sequenzas, including I, II, V, VIII, IXa and XIV.

A series of four concerts took place between September 30th and October 3rd in Erlangen, Bamberg and Bonn (in the frame of the Beethovenfest), with the pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque and the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Jonathan Nott. The program included Berio’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra and Rendering for orchestra as well as Beethoven’s Third Symphony.

Berlin’s Musikfest 2010, which this year was dedicated to the work of two great composers, Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio, has drawn to a close. The Festival was born from a collaboration between the Berliner Festspiele and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation; from the 2nd to the 21st of September, it hosted world-class performers and conductors such as Harding, Rattle, Nagano and Boulez himself, and chamber groups and great orchestras from both Germany and abroad including the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Ensemble Modern, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic. Among the Berio works performed during the Festival: Sinfonia, Stanze, Voci, Naturale, Coro, Concerto for Two Pianos, Chemins I, Quatre Dédicaces.