Luca Francesconi wins RPS Music Award

Luca Francesconi is the first Italian composer to win the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award. He is awarded in the Large-Scale Composition category for his violin concerto Duende: The Dark Notes. The annual RPS Music Awards, presented in association with BBC Radio 3, are the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK.…

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Art & Science Days 1 – 4 June 2016, Bourges

sharing, education, culture, science Composers have always looked for links between the world surrounding them and the world they build. They seek rules and components in order to build their own universe. They seek the basic elements, the construction elements as the ones they see around them. We dedicate the 2016 Art & Science Days…

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International Rostrum of Composers 2016

Partendo, Lasciando le erbe tali quali sono (2015) for countertenor and ensemble by Swiss composer Oscar BIANCHI (born 1975) and Langedes ülespoole, taeva kaarjasse kaussi (falling up into the bowl of sky), by young Estonian composer Maria Kõrvits (born 1987) are the works selected by radio music producers participating in the 63rd International Rostrum of…

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Biennale Musica 7-16 October 2016

The Biennale Musica will feature 26 concerts, including 46 world premieres, 27 new works for Italy and 25 commissioned works: these include pieces commissioned to Kaija Saariaho, Pascal Dusapin, and Salvatore Sciarrino, who will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. For the first time, a few DJ-sets will be commissioned to musicians from the…

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LAB-Arts(…)org, international laboratory for collaborative arts

music · dance · architecture LAB-Arts invites you to apply to a new summer program in music and dance, taking place in downtown Chicago in summer 2016. Centered on site-specific performances, the workshop will mix choreographers, dancers, composers, conductors, and musicians, to create new pieces inspired by Chicago’s vibrant architecture. Participants of the workshop will…

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Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2016

From 1 till 7 September 2016 (a week preceding the Muziekweek) the 3rd Gaudeamus Muziekweek Academy will take place. During the academy the five composers nominated for the Gaudeamus Award 2016 will work intensively with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modelo62, Silbersee and Oerknal!. In addition to that, they will work on a new piece for Quatuor…

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Classical:NEXT 25 – 28 May 2016

Classical:NEXT was born out of the simple idea to bring the diverse scenes of classical music together and offer them a forum to exchange and develop new ways for classical and contemporary music. Since the first edition in 2012, about 3000 classical music professionals from more than 1000 companies and from over 40 countries have…

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