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 15 January 2025 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 Hub is…
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…
Samuel Hvozdík Wins the 2024 ISCM Young Composer Award
Samuel Hvozdík (b. 1993 in Slovakia) has been awarded the 2024 ISCM Young Composer Award for his organ composition Magma which was performed by Swedish organist Hans Hellsten in the Fuglafjarðar Kirkja in Fuglafjørður during the 2024 ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands. The award is a €2500 commission to write a…
Chen Yi & Linda Catlin Smith Elected ISCM Honorary Members
During the first 2024 ISCM General Assembly on 24 June at the Kongshøll in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Chen Yi and Linda Catlin Smith were elected Honorary Members of the ISCM by almost unanimous consent. The ISCM has had honorary members since its founding in 1923, when Ferruccio Busoni, Maurice Ravel, Jean Sibelius, and Igor Stravinsky…
MATRIX has Assembled a Faroe Islands Music Playlist to Celebrate the Upcoming 2024 ISCM WNMD
MATRIX, the Flemish Section of ISCM, has assembled a Faroe Islands music playlist in celebration of the upcoming 2024 ISCM World New Music Days which takes place on the islands from 22 June to 1 July. Starting on 3 June, for each day leading up to the Festival, MATRIX has posted a “Faroe Islands recommended…
Composers Invited to Apply to the 9th Sterkfontein Composers Meeting
Composers from the international community are invited to apply to attend the 9th Sterkfontein Composers Meeting, which will take place from 4-15 December 2024 at the Nirox Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Sterkfontein Composers Meeting brings together the best young African composers every year in South Africa. It was established in 2012 at the…
VICC Residency
VICC – Visby International Centre for Composers in Visby, Gotland, Sweden have an annual co-operation program: the ISCM-VICC Composer in Residency Program.
Call For Works Announced for the 2025 ISCM WNMD in Portugal
Miso Music Portugal, the Portuguese ISCM Section, has announced the official Call for Works for the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World New Music Days 2025 in Portugal, which will take place in Lisbon and Porto from 30 May to 7 June 2025. ISCM Sections, Members, and Individual Applicants are invited to submit works…