11th World Symposium on Choral Music

2017 is the year of the 11th World Symposium on Choral Music that will be held in Barcelona, from 22nd to 29th July. Barcelona is a cultural city where choral music is a very important ingredient, with hundreds of choirs coming from very diverse spheres and with a wide range of styles. We are working…

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the International Composition Competition »Leibniz’s Harmonies«

Prize Winners Concert of the International Composition Competition »Leibniz’s Harmonies« I Prizewinners category »Orchestra« Compositions for Orchestra: 1st Prize Timo Ruttkamp (*1980, Köln): Mitternachtssonnenwindspieluhr Prize money: 5000 € 2nd Prize Dong Lingyi (*1995, Taiyuan|Beijing): Resonance Prize money: 4000 € 3rd Prize ex aequo Alessio Elia (*1979): Labyrinthum continui Prize money: 1500 € 3rd Prize ex…

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1st Ensemble Festival 2nd – 4th December 2016, Cologne

with Electronic D, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Musikfabrik, hand werk, Kölner Vokalsolisten and MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle Musik. Ensemble Musikfabrik play works by the winners of the composing award 2016 of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Milica Djordjevic, David Hudry and Gordon Kampe Read more…

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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

hcmf// is an annual, international festival of contemporary and new music, taking place over 10 days, Friday 18 – Sunday 27 November 2016, and consisting of approximately 50 events – including concerts, music-theatre, dance, multi-media, talks and film – with a related Learning and Participation programme devised and implemented to reflect the artistic programme and…

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The finalists of the 5-Minute Piano Concerto Competition

Johannes Kalitzke (composer and conductor, Germany), Berislav Šipuš (composer and conductor, Croatia) and Daan Vandewalle (pianist, Belgium) confronted a challenging task – among 182 applied scored to distinguish 10 most successful ones which will be performed in April 2017 at the 29th MBZ. The finalists of the 5-Minute Piano Concerto Competition are: Christina Athinodorou, Cyprus,…

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winners of the composer competition RicordiLab

Sarah Nemtsov, Shiori Usui and Steffen Wick are the winners of the composer competition RicordiLab. A total of 217 composers from 45 different countries had applied. Selected works of the winners will be performed by the artistic partners Basel Sinfonietta, Southbank Centre and Staatstheater Cottbus. Read more…

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GAUDEAMUS MUSICWEEK 2017

Overwhelming minimal music, wringing soundscapes, experimental electronics, post-pop, electro-acoustic crossovers: all this can be heard from 6 – 10 September during Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht. The judging panel consisting of Mayke Nas, Christopher Trapani and Joe Cutler selected the following five composers to enter the prestitious competition next year: Chaz Underriner (1987, USA), Ivan Vukosavljevic…

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Malta International Choir Festival Composition Competition

In 2017, the Ministry for Tourism and the Malta Tourism Authority will be holding another edition of the Malta International Choir Festival between 2 and 5 November. As part of the structural components of the festival the organising committee is pleased to launch the 2nd edition of the Malta International Festival Composition Competition. The aim…

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