2014/05/31 Annual International Young Composers Academy

2014/05/31 Annual International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city (Perm region), August 29 – September 13, 2014 is the large-scale international composer workshop in Russia. Artistic director is a composer Dmitri Kourliandski. Academy is a creative laboratory for young composers and musicians from around the world. During fortnight workshop the young composers write new compositions…

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2014/05/31 eContact! 16.4

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) is now accepting submissions for an upcoming issue of eContact!, the online journal for electroacoustics published four times a year by the CEC. eContact! 16.4 will showcase subversive, politically informed and experimental work, projects and practices in the larger realm of creation in sound and technologies. read more…

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2014/05/31 Italy Percussion Competition

2014/05/31 Italy Percussion Competition for Marimba, Vibraphone, Timpani, Snare Drum, Drum set & Composition will be held from 23 to 28 september at the Congress Centre “Serena Majestic” in Montesilvano /Pescara (Italy) in a beautiful location near the sea. read more….

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2014/09/10 International Composition Competition A. Make it

2014/09/10 The Association Oenotria Brutia Classical announces the first edition of the International Composition Competition A. Make it. The competition is open to composers of all nationalities born between January 1, 1974 and is divided into two phases. *Participants must send before September 10, 2014 the score of an essay chamber already exists, No. 7…

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Ensemble Windstreken & Ruben Zahra

Ensemble Windstreken & Ruben Zahra The Dutch Ensemble Windstreken makes musical connections between very diverse music styles. It combines jazz and improvisation with medieval and contemporary classical music, Indian and North African music. Its main purpose is to discover surprising blends of sounds. The ensemble was founded by flutist/saxophonist Pieter van de Mast in 2004.…

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Reinhard Oehlschlägel (1936-2014)

We are very sad to note the passing of our honorary member Reinhard Oehlschlägel in Cologne on April 29, 2014. In the words of John Davis, our former president: “A true champion of contemporary music, Honorary Member of ISCM, fierce advocate, passionate about so much music. His MusikTexte magazine documents so much contemporary music from…

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2014/04/30-05/11 Acht Brücken Festival

Man and machine, clock and pulse are the two pairs of opposites, which will highlight the festival. The audience will experience the diverse and fascinating world of percussion music, very close to the pulse and beat of the time! With a.o. Asko|Schönberg, E-MEX-Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble intercontemporain, ensemble mosaik, Ensemble musikFabrik, ensemble recherche, Experimentalstudio des…

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2014/05/07-05/23 14th Munich Biennale

14th Munich Biennale, Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater The motto contains sharpest contrasts: Liberation – disaster, relief – horror, departure – downfall. A composer tried to live and design as such, Claude Vivier, which was 34 years young, murdered on March 1983 in Paris. Vivier is where Marko Nikodijevićs’ Opera is about, which opens the…

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