Archive for March 2015

Compositions for orchestra in any format except concerto, within the following instrumentation and to be performed with one conductor. Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japan) Application deadline: 30 September 2015, Scores that have been published, performed in public concert or commercially recorded are not eligible. Read more…

The Biennale College – Music 2015 project will select 23 young instrumentalists aged 28 and under, to constitute a chamber orchestra for the 59th International Festival of Contemporary Music of the Biennale di Venezia, directed by Ivan Fedele. This orchestra, conducted by M° Michele Carulli, will perform the following programme on October 11th 2015 at…

The Ensemble intercontemporain, created in 1976 by Pierre Boulez, directed by Matthias Pintscher and based at the Philharmonie de Paris, organises an assistant conductors audition. The deadline for the registration procedure has changed : the applications file must be sent before 13 April 2015. Read more…

The submitted work shall be an original composition for four-octave carillon (tenor C to C4), with two-octave pedal board (C-C2). The composition may be a solo, a duet for one carillon or a work for carillon with one or more other instrument or chorus. Submitted composition must be postmarked no later than July 31, 2015…

The Polar Music Prize 2015 is awarded to percussionist Evelyn Glennie from Aberdeen, Scotland. Evelyn Glennie, who has been deaf since the age of twelve, has a mission to teach the world to listen. Also awarded to Emmylou Harris from Birmingham, Alabama. No one in the history of popular music has harmonised like Emmylou Harris.…