Commissioning and staging new music works

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The Sonus Foundation aims to contribute to the new music heritage by commissioning and staging new pieces. 

On 19 December 2018, the concert program in the Hold Street Church, Budapest contained four world premiere of pieces by young composers who participated in the composing masterclass organised by the Sonus Foundation (Konrad Handschuh, Roland Hegedüs, Paweł Siek, Mateusz Smigasiewicz). 

On 22 August 2019, Gergely Vajda's piece From The Left To The Right, commissined by the Sonus Foundation, was premiered in the framework of the Canadian SALT New Music Festival. 

A new composition of Péter Tornyai will be premiered in the Deák Square Church, Budapest on 24 May 2020. It was commissoned by the Sonus Foundation for the concert series NewSpirit&Music and is written to use the special accoustic features of the venue.