Ultraschall Berlin Contemporary Music Festival 17.-21.01.2018

With a.o. world premières of Isabel Mundry, Márton Illés and Birke Bertelsmeier are performed alongside works by Frederic Rzewski, Heinz Holliger and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, whose 100th birthday is celebrated this year and whose works for two pianos and their orchestral prelude “Photoptosis” are performed once again. Read more…

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call for applications composition academy Musica 2018

The artistic committee will assign 10 composers born after January 1st, 1983 with works written for: 1. vocal sextet: coloratura soprano, lyric soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, basssolo instrument and live electronics 2. solo instruments: flute (also piccolo, alto), B flat clarinet (also bass clarinet), tenor trombone (also alto, bass), piano, viola electronics: the software used…

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USA International Harp Composition Contest

As part of its mission to promote harp and harp music, the USA International Harp Competition sponsors a Composition Contest that occurs every three years, prior to the performance Competition. Composers are invited to submit new works for solo harp. A distinguished panel of harpists plus one composer select the winning composition. Instrumentation: Solo harp…

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Klarafestival 2018

Klarafestival is a high-quality international music festival that, based on a western classical music repertoire, dares to modernize. Using its Brussels identity as a foundation, Klarafestival is building a bridge to the outside world and is doing so locally (Brussels), nationally (Flanders and Wallonia) and internationally with the goal of enriching people’s lives. We include…

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2018 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival

The deadline is Tuesday, January 9. 2018 at 5pm EST. The dates for the 2018 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA are July 9-29. We welcome applicants from all over the globe who are at least 21 years old as of the first day of the festival. Performance applicants, please note…

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The International Computer Music Conference

The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2018 invites makers to submit their works (installations, music, panel proposals, papers, and workshop proposals) for the ICMC 2018, which will be held in Daegu, South Korea from August 5-10 2018. ICMC invites the community to consider this year’s theme Preserve | Engage | Advance as it broadly relates…

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Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition

• The composition should be written for one piano (solo or for more than one pianist), and can include all facets of the instrument. • It is of great importance that the pieces be appropriate in their level of difficulty for children / young adults and be suitable for pedagogical use. Therefore the pianistic difficulties…

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Composition Contest and Residency for Acoustic Instrument and Sampo

Musinfo is pleased to announce the fifth edition of the Composition Contest and Residency for Acoustic Instrument and Sampo. With this initiative Musinfo supports the work of contemporary composers in the field of live-electronic. The residency will take place during the 2018 Art & Science Days in Bourges. Read more…

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call for Biennale College – Music

La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, announces the new edition of the Biennale College – Music with the launch of the del international call for teams consisting of a composer and a librettist, aged 35 and under. The project for the Biennale College – Music 2018 intends to promote and support the production…

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