ISCM is an international network of members from around fifty countries, devoted to the promotion and presentation of contemporary music - the music of our time.
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a premier forum for the advancement, dissemination and interchange of new music from around the world. Through ISCM, our members promote contemporary music in all its varied forms, strengthening musical life in their local contexts and making their music and its creators known to world.
The ISCM embraces the diverse music of its many members without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, or politics. It values open and democratic procedures in the formation and enactment of policy, including the decision (made by the General Assembly of all its members) regarding where each World New Music Days festival will be held. The ISCM pledges to realize the equitable representation of nationality, gender, and age of composers and musicians in all of its programming. As an international organization of artists, we support diversity and ensure to promote it.
ISCM WORLD NEW MUSIC DAYS 2023 - WATCH THIS SPACE!
ISCM2023 in South Africa will be hosted by the ISCM South Africa Section from 24 November - 3 December 2023. The Call for Works has closed and the final announcements of selected works will soon be announced.
ISCM STATEMENT
The ISCM acknowledges with horror and dismay the invasion and war currently being waged on Ukraine. We denounce all such attacks, and their threat to life and civilization. The ISCM arose 100 years ago from a desire to contribute to world peace and respect through musical collaboration and sharing of insights. The attacks currently occurring in Ukraine are anathema to the ISCM: they destabilise world peace and they destroy musical life. Without musical life there is no real living. We fear for the safety of our members in Ukraine and fervently hope the war will be brought to a swift close.
- Dr. Glenda Keam
President, ISCM