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        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        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