Executive Committee

The ISCM Executive Committee is mandated by the General Assembly and runs the Society on a daily basis. Review the Minutes of their meetings.

The Executive Committee of the International Society for Contemporary Music following the final 2023 ISCM General Assembly
during the 2024 ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands on 21 June 2024.
Pictured left to right: Frank J. Oteri, David Pay, Glenda Keam, Rebecca Diependaele, Magnus Bunnskog,
Chia-Lin Pan, Ol’ga Smetanova, and Wolfgang Renzl. Photo by Denis Gomez Garcia.

Glenda Keam, President

Frank J. Oteri, Vice-President

Ol’ga Smetanová, Secretary General

David Pay, Treasurer

Chia-Lin Pan, Member

Magnus Bunnskog, Member

Rebecca Diependaele, Member

Wolfgang Renzl, Legal Counsel

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PAST ISCM PRESIDENTS

Edward Dent (UK)  1922-1938
Edwin Evans (UK)        1938-1945
Edward Dent (UK)        1945-1947
Edward Clark (UK)        1947-1952
( Collective Presidency 1952-1953
    Pauline Hall (NO)
    Benjamin Frankel (UK)
    Stanley Glasser (ZA)
    Carlos Riesco (CL)
    Lex van Delden (NL))
Johan Bentzon (DK)    1953-1954
Goffredo Petrassi (IT)   1954-1956
Heinrich Strobel        1956-1969
André Jurrès (NL)        1969-1975
Jacques Guyonnet (CH)    1975-1981
Siegfried Palm (DE)        1982-1987
Zygmunt Krauze (PL)    1988-1990
Michael Finnissy (UK)    1991-1996
Arne Mellnås (SE)        1996-2002
Richard Tsang (HK)    2002-2008
John Davis (AU)        2008-2013
Peter Swinnen (BE-FLN)    2013-2019

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PAST ISCM GENERAL SECRETARIES

Violet J. Balkwill (UK)    1922-?
W.H. Kerridge (UK)        1930
Effie Bolton (UK)        1933
Dorothy Wadham (UK)    1935-1938
Edward Clark (UK)        1938-1945
Humphrey Searle (UK)    1947-1950
Edith Goldschmidt (UK)    1951-1953
Flemming Weis (DK)    1953-1954
Mario Peragallo (IT)    1954-1955
Robert W. Mann (IE)    1955-1959
Pierre Stoll (FR)        1959-1969
Rudolf Heinemann        1969-1981
Trygve Nordwall        1982-1991
Chris Walraven        1991-1995
Henk Heuvelmans        1996-2006
Arthur van der Drift    2007-2015

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OTHER SIGNIFICANT PAST EXCOM MEMBERS INCLUDE

Darius Milhaud (FR/USA) 1938-1946
Béla Bartók (HU/USA)    1939-1945
Alois Hába (CZ)        1946-1948
Douglas Moore (USA)    1946-1947
Francis Poulenc (FR)    1946-1947
Jean Absil (FR)            1948-1950
Roman Palester (PL)    1948-1949
Luigi Dallapiccola (IT)    1949-1950
André Souris (BE/FR)    1951-1952
Elliott Carter (USA)        1954-1955
Aaron Copland (USA)    1955-1956
Alberto Ginastera (AR)    1956-1963
Roger Sessions (USA)    1956-1963
Roman Vlad (RO/IT)       1957-1960; 1963-1969
Mátyás Seiber (HU/UK)     1958-1961
Witold Lutosławski (PL)     1959-1965
Friedrich Cerha (AT)      1969-1973
Rudolf Maros (HU)         1971-1975
Ingvar Lidholm (SE)     1973-1977
Jan Morthenson (SE), VP 1975-1979
Hubert S. Howe (USA)     1975-1977
Wlodzimierz Kotonski (PL) 1975-1977
Yiannis Papaioannou (GR), VP 1977-1979
Jorge Peixinho (PT)     1977-1981
Václav Kucera (CZ)     1978-1982
Joji Yuasa (JP)         1979-1981
Sten Hanson (SE)         1981-1985
Tomás Marco (ES)         1981-1983
Sukhi Kang (KR), VP    1987-1990
Ana Lara (MX)        1991-1993
Zoltan Jeney (HU), VP    1994-1999
Lars Graugaard (DK), Treasurer 1998-2015
Jean-Luc Darbellay (CH) 2005-2008