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.

ISCM ExCom 2025-27
The newly elected Executive Committee of the International Society of Contemporary Music outside the O’culto de Ajuda in Lisbon, Portugal on 6 June 2025
(pictured left to right): Wolfgang Renzl (Legal Counsel), Ol’ga Smetanova (Secretary General), Magnus Bunnskog (Member), Deborah Keyser (Member),
Frank J. Oteri (President), Chialin Pan (Member), Rebecca Diependaele (Vice-President), and David Pay (Treasurer).

Frank J. Oteri, President

Rebecca Diependaele, Vice-President

Ol’ga Smetanová, Secretary General

David Pay, Treasurer

Chia-Lin Pan, Member

Magnus Bunnskog, Member

Deborah Keyser, 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 (DE) 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
Glenda Keam (NZ) 2019-2025

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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 (DE) 1969-1981
Trygve Nordwall (SE) 1982-1991
Chris Walraven (NL) 1991-1995
Henk Heuvelmans (NL) 1996-2006
Arthur van der Drift (NL) 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) 1990-1993
Zoltan Jeney (HU), VP 1994-1999
Lars Graugaard (DK), Treasurer 1998-2015
Jean-Luc Darbellay (CH) 2005-2008