Applications Now Open for The 2025 LunART Composers Hub

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…

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Composers Invited to Apply to the 9th Sterkfontein Composers Meeting

Eva Zöllner playing the accordion

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…

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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.

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Forecast’s 2024 Call for Proposals is Now Open

submissions from Forecast's 2018 call for proposals

Forecast, an interdisciplinary mentorship program based in Berlin, has opened its annual call for proposals. The program offers creative thinkers from various disciplines the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. One of the experts in this edition is composer and performer Ute Wassermann. Wassermann is a German voice artist,…

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Edition49 Announces Mandolin Composition Competition

flatback f-hole mandolin (Photo by John Lyttle on Unsplash)

The German music publisher Edition49 and the Siegburg Music Workshop (Musikwerkstatt Siegburg) have announced an international composition competition for mandolin Registration is free and there are no stylistic requirements. Composers can also submit a one-movement or a multi-movement work. Works for solo mandolin, duos, trios, mandolin in a band, or orchestra with mandolin can be…

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12th Rivers Awards International Composition Competition Annnounced (RACC) 2023

RACC 2023

The Shanghai Conservatory of Music will once again host the international Rivers Awards Composition Competition (RACC). As in previous years, the Composition and Conducting Department at Shanghai Conservatory of Music will organize this 12th edition of RACC which aims to promote extensive exchange between Chinese and Western music, encouraging innovative and explorative composition for Chinese…

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International Review of Composers Call for Scores Announced

Logo for the International Review of Composers from Serbia

The Composers’ Association of Serbia has announced a call for scores for the 32nd International Review of Composers which will take place in Belgrade from 5–10 October 2023. The Call is not anonymous. The application is free of charge. The same composer can submit pieces in various categories, but it is not possible to submit…

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11th Rivers Awards Composition Competition (RACC) 2022 Announced

Shanghai Conservatory

The Shanghai Conservatory of Music has announced the 11th Rivers Awards Composition Competition (RACC). RACC aims to promote extensive exchange between Chinese and Western music, encouraging innovative and explorative composition for Chinese and Western musical instruments, and build a high-end platform to introduce outstanding original musical works to the public. A positive theme that embodies…

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