Mathilde Wantenaar

This year, the Presteigne Festival, which takes place from 27-31 August 2026, will shine a spotlight on the music of Mathilde Wantenaar. Now in its 44th year, the Presteigne Festival has a unique place in the UK’s musical calendar. The Festival is widely acknowledged for its exceptional work in commissioning, performing and promoting new music and living composers, and has a strong tradition for supporting emergent artists in its programme. Its influence is felt artistically and economically...

As part of SNAAR, a festival about science and music, the Netherlands Chamber will premiere The Song of Koios, an evening-spanning, monumental new work. Fascinating figures such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein take us on a journey through time. Central is humanity’s unstoppable scientific curiosity, with all its magnificent and terrible consequences. Because science brings about progress, but also destruction. Koios from the title of Wantenaar’s work is a figure from...

Mathilde Wantenaar’s Suite V for solo cello is performed at Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall) on 14 April as part of Alisa Weilerstein's multi-year performance series FRAGMENTS. The project brings together new commissions by some of today's most compelling composers with the timeless beauty of J. S. Bach's six suites for solo cello. During Carnegie Hall's 2025–2026 season, Weilerstein presents FRAGMENTS 5, in which new works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Gabriella Smith, Gerard McBurney, Mathilde...