2015, from day to day
2015. With other artists, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pierre Boulez and Krzysztof Penderecki influenced their time (modern & contemporary era). That year would see the birth of future classical or lyrical artists, while others would disappear such as James Horner. That year, halls or orchestras would be founded or ceased to operate.
All these moments, more or less notable, make the year 2015 a page in the history of classical and lyrical music to be discovered or rediscovered. soclassiq currently lists more than 150 of these moments for 2015.
The year 2015 in classical music and in lyrical art
January
01
Death of Márta Szirmay That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer, jazz singer (born in 1939)
05
Death of Shin'ichi Yuize That year: 2015, Classical music, Japanese composer (1923-2015) (born in 1923)
06
Death of Myrtha Garbarini That year: 2015, Classical music, Argentine singer (1926-2015) (born in 1926)
Death of Eduard Baghdasaryan That year: 2015, Classical music, Armenian opera singer, tenor (born in 1928)
10
Dissolution: Le Quatuor That year: 2015, Classical music (France)
Death of David Josefowitz That year: 2015, Classical music, British violinist, conductor and music producer (1918-2015) (born in 1918)
Death of Keriman Davran That year: 2015, Classical music, Turkish opera singer (soprano) (born in 1936)
12
Death of Elena Obraztsova That year: 2015, Classical music, Soviet and Russian opera singer (born in 1939)
14
Inauguration: Philharmonie de Paris That year: 2015, Classical music (Paris, France)
19
Death of Vera Gornostayeva That year: 2015, Classical music, Russian pianist (born in 1929)
21
Death of Waldemar Kmentt That year: 2015, Classical music, Austrian opera singer (born in 1929)
22
Death of Louis Devos That year: 2015, Classical music, Belgian opera singer and conductor (1926-2015) (born in 1926)
Death of Liselotte Becker-Egner That year: 2015, Classical music, German opera singer (born in 1931)
29
Death of Rod McKuen That year: 2015, Classical music, American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer (1933-2015) (born in 1933)
Death of Riichirō Manabe That year: 2015, Classical music, Japanese composer (born in 1924)
30
Death of Ezra Sims That year: 2015, Classical music, American composer of microtonal music (1928-2015) (born in 1928)
February
01
Death of Aldo Ciccolini That year: 2015, Classical music, French musician (born in 1925)
Death of Anita Darian That year: 2015, Classical music, singer and actress (born in 1927)
04
Death of Pavel Jurkovič That year: 2015, Classical music, Czech composer, singer and music educator (1933-2015) (born in 1933)
08
Death of Helena Arizmendi That year: 2015, Classical music, Argentine opera singer (born in 1927)
09
Death of Marvin David Levy That year: 2015, Classical music, American composer (1932-2015) (born in 1932)
12
Death of Désiré Dondeyne That year: 2015, Classical music, French conductor (born in 1921)
Death of John-Edward Kelly That year: 2015, Classical music, American musician (born in 1958)
Death of Friedrich Lenz That year: 2015, Classical music, German singer and opera singer (born in 1926)
14
Death of Maureen Guy That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer (1932-2015) (born in 1932)
Death of Octavian Naghiu That year: 2015, Classical music, Romanian opera singer (1933-2015) (born in 1933)
17
Death of Andrzej Koszewski That year: 2015, Classical music, Composer, musicologist, and teacher (born in 1922)
Death of Junetta Jones That year: 2015, Classical music, American singer (1936-2015) (born in 1936)
24
Death of Magda Varga That year: 2015, Classical music, Hungarian opera singer (born in 1922)
25
Death of Zbigniew Kalemba That year: 2015, Classical music, composer, conductor (born in 1936)
26
Death of Eszter Póka That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1944)
27
Death of Roberto Bañuelas That year: 2015, Classical music, Mexican composer (born in 1931)
28
Death of Ezra Laderman That year: 2015, Classical music, Classical music composer (1924-2015) (born in 1924)
March
03
Death of Matti Kastu That year: 2015, Classical music, Finnish opera singer (born in 1943)
09
Death of Boris Vajda That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer (1933-2015) (born in 1933)
10
Death of Hella Puhlmann That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1936)
16
Death of Walter Baer That year: 2015, Classical music, (1928-2015) (born in 1928)
18
Death of Vladimir Burylyov That year: 2015, Classical music, Russian opera singer (born in 1945)
22
Death of Helen Landis (1923-2015) That year: 2015, Classical music, English opera singer (born in 1923)
23
Death of Roy Douglas That year: 2015, Classical music, English composer (born in 1907)
24
Death of Oleg Bryzhak That year: 2015, Classical music, Ukrainian opera singer (born in 1960)
Death of Maria Radner That year: 2015, Classical music, German opera singer (born in 1981)
Death of Pauli Kurikka That year: 2015, Classical music, television presenter, opera singer (born in 1927)
April
01
Death of Fanka Ikonomova That year: 2015, Classical music, Macedonian opera singer (born in 1920)
05
Death of Jan Kusiewicz That year: 2015, Classical music, Polish singer (born in 1921)
10
Death of Karl Herbst That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer, stage actor (born in 1944)
16
Death of Manfred Drescher That year: 2015, Classical music, German opera singer (1931-2015) (born in 1931)
20
Death of Gary Brain That year: 2015, Classical music, New Zealand conductor (1943-2015) (born in 1943)
21
Death of Paul Asciak That year: 2015, Classical music, Maltese opera singer (1923-2015) (born in 1923)
23
Death of Frank Porretta That year: 2015, Classical music, American opera singer (1930-2015) (born in 1930)
24
Death of Kurt Leo Sourisseaux That year: 2015, Classical music, German singer and opera singer (born in 1927)
Death of Marc Claesen That year: 2015, Classical music, Belgian opera singer (born in 1968)
May
02
Death of Clarice Carson That year: 2015, Classical music, soprano (born in 1929)
04
Death of Leopold Andreyev That year: 2015, Classical music, musician (born in 1923)
06
Death of Trevor Jones That year: 2015, Classical music, British violist, ex. Salomon Quartet
Death of Trevor Jones That year: 2015, Classical music, Australian violist
07
Death of Berthe Van Hyfte That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1921)
10
Death of Jack Body That year: 2015, Classical music, New Zealand composer, art photographer and musicologist (1944-2015) (born in 1944)
11
Death of Roman Leonidovitsj Leonidov That year: 2015, Classical music, violinist (born in 1943)
14
Death of Bozhidar Petkov That year: 2015, Classical music, Bulgarian composer (1940-2015) (born in 1940)
17
Death of Juan Alfonso García García That year: 2015, Classical music, Catholic priest, composer, organist (born in 1935)
18
Death of Gabriele Auenmüller That year: 2015, Classical music, German opera singer (1951-2015) (born in 1951)
24
Death of Irina Viktorovna Tseslukevich That year: 2015, Classical music, Soviet and Russian composer, music educator (born in 1955)
26
Death of Yosyp Hoshuliak That year: 2015, Classical music, Canadian Ukrainian opera singer (born in 1922)
28
Death of Johnny Keating That year: 2015, Classical music, British musician (born in 1927)
30
Death of Christiane Sorell That year: 2015, Classical music, Austrian soprano opera singer (1933-2015) (born in 1933)
31
Death of Nico Castel That year: 2015, Classical music, American opera singer (born in 1931)
Also in May
Dissolution: The Philadelphia Singers That year: 2015, Classical music (United States of America) .
June
07
Death of Matti Heinikari That year: 2015, Classical music, Finnish opera singer (1944-2015) (born in 1944)
13
Death of Torgils Moe That year: 2015, Classical music, Norwegian actor and musician (1929-2015) (born in 1929)
14
Death of Walter Weller That year: 2015, Classical music, Austrian conductor (born in 1939)
17
Death of Chang Ch'ung-ho That year: 2015, Classical music, Chinese calligrapher (born in 1914)
18
Death of Franck Ferrari That year: 2015, Classical music, French singer (born in 1963)
21
Death of Gunther Schuller That year: 2015, Classical music, American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician (born in 1925)
Death of Ina Kringlebotn That year: 2015, Classical music, Norwegian opera singer (born in 1983)
22
Death of James Horner That year: 2015, Classical music, American film composer and conductor (1953-2015) (born in 1953)
Death of Joseph de De Pasquale That year: 2015, Classical music, American musician (born in 1919)
30
Death of György Korondi That year: 2015, Classical music, Hungarian opera singer (born in 1936)
July
04
Death of Jerzy Szymański That year: 2015, Classical music, Polish opera singer and bass (born in 1927)
05
Death of Amneris Perusín That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer, activist
09
Death of Josef Hopferwieser That year: 2015, Classical music, Austrian opera singer. (born in 1938)
10
Death of Jon Vickers That year: 2015, Classical music, Canadian singer (1926-2015) (born in 1926)
13
Death of Michael Rayner That year: 2015, Classical music, English opera singer (born in 1933)
16
Death of Pavel Červinka That year: 2015, Classical music, Czech opera singer (1940-2015) (born in 1940)
18
Death of Raija Määttänen That year: 2015, Classical music, Finnish opera singer (born in 1937)
19
Death of Dorothee Fürstenberg That year: 2015, Classical music, German opera singer (1935-2015) (born in 1935)
Death of François Leclère That year: 2015, Classical music, French composer (born in 1950)
21
Death of Paul Freeman That year: 2015, Classical music, American conductor (1936–2015) (born in 1936)
23
Death of Anita Garanča That year: 2015, Classical music, Latvian singer and educationist (1949-2015) (born in 1949)
24
Death of Mario Sereni That year: 2015, Classical music, Italian opera singer (born in 1928)
26
Death of Wolfgang Gönnenwein That year: 2015, Classical music, German conductor (1933-2015) (born in 1933)
Death of Gaston Germain That year: 2015, Classical music, Canadian bass singer and music educator (1933-2015) (born in 1933)
27
Death of Ivan Moravec That year: 2015, Classical music, Czech concert pianist (born in 1930)
30
Death of Ludmila Dvořáková That year: 2015, Classical music, Czech opera singer (1923-2015) (born in 1923)
Death of Charlotte Holloman That year: 2015, Classical music, American opera singer and voice teacher (born in 1922)
August
03
Death of Adam Walaciński That year: 2015, Classical music, Polish composer and musician (1928-2015) (born in 1928)
11
Death of Serge Collot That year: 2015, Classical music, French musician (born in 1923)
12
Death of John Scott That year: 2015, Classical music, English organist and choirmaster (born in 1956)
16
Death of Sergey Amedyan That year: 2015, Classical music, Russian musician (born in 1929)
20
Death of Kenneth Jennings That year: 2015, Classical music, American conductor (born in 1925)
22
Death of Mária Sudlik That year: 2015, Classical music, Hungarian singer (1942-2015) (born in 1942)
26
Death of Camellia Johnson That year: 2015, Classical music, American opera singer (1953-2015) (born in 1953)
27
Death of Krunoslav Cigoj That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer (1949-2015) (born in 1949)
30
Death of Natalia Strelchenko That year: 2015, Classical music, Norwegian concert pianist of Russian origin (born in 1976)
Death of Dan Iordachescu That year: 2015, Classical music, Romanian baritone (1930-2015) (born in 1930)
31
Death of Sergej Dubrovin That year: 2015, Classical music, Serbian opera singer (1942-2015) (born in 1942)
September
11
Death of Rubén Domínguez That year: 2015, Classical music, Venezuelan opera singer (born in 1940)
12
Inauguration: Lugano Arte e Cultura That year: 2015, Classical music (Lugano, Switzerland)
Death of Anne Øland That year: 2015, Classical music, Danish musician (born in 1949)
17
Death of David Willcocks That year: 2015, Classical music, British choral conductor, organist and composer (1919-2015) (born in 1919)
23
Death of Kārlis Zariņš That year: 2015, Classical music, Soviet singer, opera singer and music educator (1930-2015) (born in 1930)
26
Death of Toshiya Sukegawa That year: 2015, Classical music, Japanese composer (1930-2015) (born in 1930)
29
Death of Jean Ter-Merguerian That year: 2015, Classical music, French violinist (born in 1935)
Also in September
Inception: Le Consort That year: 2015, Classical music .
October
07
Death of Magafura Saligaskarova That year: 2015, Classical music, Soviet Russian singer (born in 1922)
Death of Veijo Varpio That year: 2015, Classical music, Finnish opera singer (born in 1928)
19
Death of Patricia Kern That year: 2015, Classical music, Welsh opera singer (1927-2015) (born in 1927)
25
Death of Arda Aydoğan That year: 2015, Classical music, Turkish opera singer (born in 1963)
30
Death of John McCollum That year: 2015, Classical music, American opera tenor (born in 1922)
November
04
Death of Eva Krasznai-Gombos That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer, voice teacher (born in 1933)
06
Death of Yveta Synek Graff That year: 2015, Classical music, vocal coach, opera singer, translator (born in 1933)
08
Death of Andrei Eshpai That year: 2015, Classical music, Soviet composer (born in 1925)
Death of Kirsten Hermansen That year: 2015, Classical music, Danish opera singer (born in 1930)
10
Death of Robert Craft That year: 2015, Classical music, American conductor and writer (1923-2015) (born in 1923)
16
Death of Jerzy Katlewicz That year: 2015, Classical music, Polish conductor (1927-2015) (born in 1927)
Death of Richard Cowan That year: 2015, Classical music, American opera singer (1957-2015) (born in 1957)
18
Death of Daniel Ferro That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1921)
Death of Sven-Olof Eliasson That year: 2015, Classical music, opera singer (born in 1933)
20
Death of Richard Owen That year: 2015, Classical music, United States federal judge (born in 1922)
21
Death of Volodymyra Chaika That year: 2015, Classical music, pedagogue, opera singer, university teacher (born in 1928)
22
Death of Joseph Silverstein That year: 2015, Classical music, American conductor and violinist (born in 1932)
Inauguration: Centrum Spotkania Kultur That year: 2015, Classical music (Lublin, Poland)
26
Death of Alexander Kholminov That year: 2015, Classical music, Russian composer (born in 1925)
27
Death of Bernard Sinclair That year: 2015, Classical music, French opera singer (born in 1937)
December
02
Death of John Eaton That year: 2015, Classical music, American composer (born in 1935)
07
Death of Heinz Fricke That year: 2015, Classical music, German musician (born in 1927)
08
Death of Mattiwilda Dobbs That year: 2015, Classical music, American coloratura soprano singer (born in 1925)
Death of Herbert Prikopa That year: 2015, Classical music, Austrian actor and composer (born in 1935)
15
Death of Stella Doufexis That year: 2015, Classical music, mezzo-soprano (born in 1968)
16
Death of Aafje Heynis That year: 2015, Classical music, Dutch singer (1924-2015) (born in 1924)
Death of René Saorgin That year: 2015, Classical music, French musician (born in 1928)
18
Death of Luc Brewaeys That year: 2015, Classical music, Belgian musician (1959-2015) (born in 1959)
19
Death of Kurt Masur That year: 2015, Classical music, German conductor (1927-2015) (born in 1927)
Death of Carlos Païta That year: 2015, Classical music, Argentine conductor (born in 1932)
Death of Daniel Smith That year: 2015, Classical music, bassoonist (born in 1928)
23
Death of Jin Xiang That year: 2015, Classical music, Chinese composer (1935-2015) (born in 1935)
24
Death of Sharofiddin Sajfiddinov That year: 2015, Classical music, Soviet composer (1929-2015) (born in 1929)
This was also in 2015
Inauguration: Pierre Boulez Saal That year: 2015, Classical music (Berlin, Germany). Inauguration: Ilumina Festival That year: 2015, Classical music (São Bento do Sapucaí, Brazil). Death of Atar Arad That year: 2015, Classical music, Israeli musician (born in 1945) . Inception: Le Concert de la Loge That year: 2015, Classical music. Inception: Kitgut Quartet That year: 2015, Classical music. Inception: Symphony Number One That year: 2015, Classical music (United States of America). Inception: Chineke! Orchestra That year: 2015, Classical music (United Kingdom).