MATA festival NYC 11 – 16 april 2016 New York.

MATA, Founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa in 1996, presents a week-long festival of music by composers under age forty each spring in New York City. Each festival presents up to thirty works by young composers, at least three to four of which are newly commissioned. Read more..

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Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium 10-13 August 2016

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) are pleased to announce the 10th edition of the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES), and delighted to welcome multifaceted artist John Oswald as Keynote Speaker this year. Governor General award-winning and prolific media artist, composer and saxophonist, John…

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International Festival of Electroacoustic Music

Composers, regardless their age and nationality are invited to submit their works of electro-acoustic music, electroacoustic music and video, Video Mapping. Guidelines for submission of works: Deadline for receipt of entries will Date: July 1 2016 They will participate works composed after January 2008 The duration of the work will be between 5 and 15…

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Composition competition organised by Orchestre national d’Île-de-France

Theme : to compose “The Migrant’s Tale” for orchestra This 5th competition is opened to composers under 33 years old on January 1st 2017, from any country and enrolled in composition and/or orchestration training program in the European Union within the five last years. Applicants must write two movements, two minutes each, of a five…

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12th SUN RIVER PRIZE Students’ New Music Composition Competition Chengdu, P.R. China, 2016

The competition of this year is chamber music, and the establishment of music instruments to be selected of 1-9 instrumentalists combined willingly and the same instrument is not more than 4. (Without any electronic instrument, equipment and computer) The composition should be under 12 minutes. Qualifications 1. All students (without any restrictions on nationalities, regions…

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Live-electronic Composition Contest – Concours de Bourges 2016

Composers are invited to write a short study of 2 to 4 minutes maximum. The electroacoustic device is represented by the software P-Soft supplied byMusInfo. The composers whose studies are chosen will receive a commission from the Opus Centrum ensemble who collaborates with MusInfo. They will be invited to write a full length composition that…

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Queen Elisabeth competition 2017

In 2017, the Queen Elisabeth competition is holding for the first time in its history a competition devoted to CELLISTS! Application deadline : 11 January 2017 Candidates must be born after 31 December 1986 The rules, as well as the online application form, will be available on www.qeimc.be as from September 2016 Read more…

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International Summer Course for Composers SYNTHETIS July 18 and 30, 2016

The Music Gardens Foundation is pleased to invite young composers (up to 35 years old), from the world over, to participate in the 2016 edition of the International Summer Course for Composers SYNTHETIS, which will take place in Radziejowice (near Warsaw, Poland) between July 18 and 30, 2016. The participants of this year’s edition of…

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The festival Klangbrücken«- sound bridges

The festival “»Klangbrücken«- sound bridges” is dedicated from 3rd to 10th of April in 12 concerts the work of Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008), one of the most colorful and exciting phenomena of recent music history. Read more…

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Results os the Frederic Mompou International Award 2016

The jury of the 36th Young composer competition for the Frederic Mompou International Award, organized by Joventuts Musicals de Barcelona, met. The panel of judges was made up of Antonio Ballestín, Carles Guinovart, Víctor Estapé, Jesús Rodríguez Picó and Jesús Rueda and assisted by Miquel M. Badal in his position as secretary of the jury.…

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