RECENT EVENTS FORTHCOMING EVENTS NEW RECORDINGS, /PUBLICATIONS, ETC Gál's 'Burleske', from his opera Die beiden Klaas, opened the programme of the Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Sunday 27th January 2008, played by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The newly-formed Ensemble Hans Gál - Shelley Levy (clarinet), Katalin Kertész (violin) and Mark Nixon (piano) - toured South Africa in the summer of 2007, performing trios by Gál, Bartok and Khachaturian. They performed at : Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Drakensberg Mountain Retreat, Bloemfontein and La Motte Wine Farm The group Amalgamation performed the Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Cello at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in a lunchtime concert at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, on 17th August 2007. CONCERT TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF THE HANS GÁL SOCIETY IN SCOTLAND The Edinburgh Quartet played Gal's 1st and 3rd String Quartets and his Improvisation, Variations and Finale on a Theme by Mozart at the St. Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, on 24th April, 2007. The concert celebrated the launch of the Hans Gál Society in Scotland and also marked the release of the quartet's recording of Gál's complete string quartets on the Meridian label. The MusicaNova Orchestra of Cave Creek, Arizona, USA, performed Gál's 3rd symphony in its series Entartete Musik at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona, on April 29th, 2007. For further details click here. Annette-Barbara-Vogel, Chad Burrow and Peter Miyamoto performed the Clarinet Trio in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Columbia, Missouri, in March 2007. An Anniversary Concert To mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Hans Gál, featuring Ensemble Hans Gál took place on Thursday 1st November, 2007, 8 p.m. at Stockbridge Parish Church Edinburgh Programme: Khachaturian: Trio for violin, clarinet and piano Gál: Sonata for Violin and PIano Schumann: Phantasiestücke for violin, clarinet and piano Gál: Trio for violin, clarinet and piano   Annette Barbara Vogel and Edward Turgeon will play the Sonata op. 17, the Suite op. 56, and the Violin Sonata (1933) at the University of Western Ontaria, London Ontario, at Guelph, Ontario, at Bowling Green, Ontario, Canada, and at Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, during January, 2008 New Recording The Edinburgh Quartet have now recorded the complete cycle of string quartets, which has been released by Meridian in 2 volumes. Click the CD-image. New Recording of the complete organ works of Hans Gál, including his Two Religious Songs and the Concertino for Organ and String Orchestra. By Istvan Matyas (organ) with Adrineh Simonean, member of the Volksoper Vienna (mezzo-soprano), David Pennetzdorfer (cello, winner of several international competitions), and the orchestra "Wiener Akademie", conducted by Martin Haselböck. The recording has recently been released by NCA (Hamburg)