title: 2010 in classical music
text: # 2010 in classical music
  
  ## Events
  
  * March 22 – Daniel Barenboim is awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal for his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
  * March 29 – Protesters interrupt a concert by the Jerusalem Quartet at London's Wigmore Hall.
  * June 8 – The Gregynog Music Festival opens; performers include Emma Kirkby, Catrin Finch and The Academy of Ancient Music.
  * July 11 – Rachel Barton Pine gives a three-part performance at Chicago's Millennium Park as part of the "Great Performers of Illinois" celebration.
  * August – Frank Huang leaves the Ying Quartet.
  * August 13 – The Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir give their first concert, at Tewkesbury Abbey, performing Handel’s "Zadok the Priest", "Water Music (Suite No 2 in D)" and "My Heart is Inditing", and Bach’s "Magnificat", accompanied by the Corelli Chamber Orchestra.
  
  ## New works
  
  * Steven Bryant – Concerto for Wind Ensemble
  * 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
  * Esa-Pekka Salonen – Nyx, for orchestra
  * 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
  
  ## Opera premieres
  
  | 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 |
  
  ## Albums
  
  * Jack Cooper – The Chamber Wind Music of Jack Cooper
  * Jackie Evancho – O Holy Night
  * Jon Lord – To Notice Such Things
  * Frederik Magle – Like a Flame
  * Maksim Mrvica – Appassionata
  * Les Prêtres – Spiritus Dei
  
  ## Musical films
  
  * Kinshasa Symphony
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 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
     * Alison Stephens, English mandolin player, 40 (cervical cancer)
     * Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano, 83
  * 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
  
  ## Major awards
  
  ### Pulitzer Prize in Music
  
  * Jennifer Higdon – Violin Concerto
  
  ### Classical Brits
  
  * Composer of the Year – Thomas Adès
  * Male Artist of the Year – Vasily Petrenko
  * Female Artist Of The Year – Angela Gheorghiu
  * Critics' Award – Antonio Pappano
  
  ### Grammy Awards
  
  * See 52nd Grammy Awards
  
  ## Composer's Guild Grand Prize
  
  * Greg Danner
  