EIGHT BRIDGES | Music for Cologne 2015

2015/04/30-05/10 EIGHT BRIDGES | Music for Cologne 2015 festival aims to make contemporary music accessible to as many people as possible, to give it the recognition it deserves. On all festival days there are exciting concerts and a wide range of workshops, films, exhibitions, lectures and special events for children. These all add up to…

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34th IAWM Search for New Music by Women Composers

This international competition has eight prize categories ranging from chamber and orchestral works to electro-acoustic media, improvisation, and sound installation. Each prize has its own monetary award. Membership in IAWM is required to enter, but contestants may join at the time of entry Receipt deadline: May 15, 2015. Read more…

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11th sun river prize

11th SUN RIVER PRIZE Students’ New Music Composition Competition, Chengdu, P.R. China, 2015, is for chamber music, and the establishment of music instruments to be selected of 1-9 instrumentalists combined willingly and the same instrument is not more than 4. (Without any electronic instrument, equipment and computer) Qualification all students (without restrictions on nationalities regions…

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Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2016

Compositions for orchestra in any format except concerto, within the following instrumentation and to be performed with one conductor. Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japan) Application deadline: 30 September 2015, Scores that have been published, performed in public concert or commercially recorded are not eligible. Read more…

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Biennale College – Music Edition 2015

The Biennale College – Music 2015 project will select 23 young instrumentalists aged 28 and under, to constitute a chamber orchestra for the 59th International Festival of Contemporary Music of the Biennale di Venezia, directed by Ivan Fedele. This orchestra, conducted by M° Michele Carulli, will perform the following programme on October 11th 2015 at…

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Ensemble intercontemporains’ assistant conductors audition

The Ensemble intercontemporain, created in 1976 by Pierre Boulez, directed by Matthias Pintscher and based at the Philharmonie de Paris, organises an assistant conductors audition. The deadline for the registration procedure has changed : the applications file must be sent before 13 April 2015. Read more…

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Carillon Composition Competition 2015

The submitted work shall be an original composition for four-octave carillon (tenor C to C4), with two-octave pedal board (C-C2). The composition may be a solo, a duet for one carillon or a work for carillon with one or more other instrument or chorus. Submitted composition must be postmarked no later than July 31, 2015…

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The Polar Music Prize 2015

The Polar Music Prize 2015 is awarded to percussionist Evelyn Glennie from Aberdeen, Scotland. Evelyn Glennie, who has been deaf since the age of twelve, has a mission to teach the world to listen. Also awarded to Emmylou Harris from Birmingham, Alabama. No one in the history of popular music has harmonised like Emmylou Harris.…

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