Jacqueline Fontyn & Karin Rehnqvist Named Honorary Members of the ISCM
Composers Jacqueline Fontyn and Karin Rehnqvist have been named Honorary Members of the International Society for Contemporary Music in a unanimous vote by the delegates to the 2025 ISCM General Assembly at the O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon on 3 June 2025 during the 2025 ISCM World New Music Days in Portugal. Jacqueline Fontyn, born…
MATRIX has Assembled a Playlist with New Music from Portugal to Celebrate the 2025 ISCM World New Music Days
MATRIX, the Flemish Section of the ISCM, has a tradition of compiling music playlists in celebration of upcoming events, such as the ISCM World New Music Days. In the weeks leading up to the upcoming festival in Portugal MATRIX posts a daily listening suggestion on their social media networks. The playlist is a great way…
Call for Scores Announced for 2026 ISCM WNMD in Romania
The Union of Composers and Musicologists from Romania (UCMR) and ISCM Romania are proud to organize again the World New Music Days festival in 2026 (Bucharest, 23-31 May), after a break of 27 years. We are looking forward to put a light on the wonderful diversity of the musics of the world, as well as on…
The World Mourns the Passing of Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025)
Music lovers around the world are mourning the passing of composer Sofia Gubaidulina who died at the age of 93 on 13 March 2025 at her home in Appen, Germany after a long illness. Born on 24 October 1931 in Chistopol in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (which is now the Republic of Tatarstan…
ISCM General Assembly Unanimously Supports Romania’s Bid to Host the World New Music Days in 2026
On 4 March 2025, during an extraordinary general assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music held over Zoom, the delegates unanimously voted in support of the ISCM Romanian Section’s bid to host the 2026 ISCM World New Music Days in Bucharest, Romania. Subtitled “Columna Infinita” after the famous sculpture by 20th-century Romanian art icon…
Achtung International! Salzburg & 100 Years of the International Society for Contemporary Music
On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the ISCM Universität Mozarteum Salzburg has put together an extensive publication on the history of the ISCM. Achtung International! Salzburg & 100 Years of the International Society for Contemporary Music | Salzburg & 100 Jahre Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik covers a wide range of topics and…
Call for Works for score collection ‘No(w) String’ (MATRIX New Music Centre / Flemish Section)
The ISCM Flemish Section (MATRIX New Music Centre) is launching a Call for Works. As part of their educational activities they are preparing an anthology of contemporary music for string instruments, suitable for young / amateur musicians. The Call invites each section of the ISCM to suggest up to 3 suitable compositions for this collection….
Applications Now Open for The 2025 LunART Composers Hub
Applications are open from today, 15 November 2024, until 1 February 2025 (DEADLINE EXTENDED) for the 2025 LunART Composers Hub, an annual week-long intensive professional development program for six female composers held during the LunART Festival in Madison, Wisconsin USA, a festival celebrating contemporary and well as historic female composers. Participating in the LunART Composers…
Portugal Announces Works Chosen for the 2025 ISCM WNMD
Miso Music Portugal, the Portuguese Section of the ISCM and the host of the 2025 ISCM World New Music Days Festival titled “Thirst For Change”, has announced the works that have been selected for performance on the festival, which will take place in Lisbon and Porto from 30 May to 7 June 2025, from the…
Joji Yuasa (1929-2024)
Composer, educator, and ISCM Honorary Member Joji Yuasa died on 24 July 2024 at the age of 94. Curiously, Yuasa, born on 12 August 1929 in Fukushima, Japan, did not begin to completely immerse himself in music until he was in his early 20s and originally pursued medical studies. Largely self-taught as a composer, in…