2014/03/01 2° Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Benedetto XVI

The first edition of the International Competition for Sacred Music Composition Papa Benedetto XVI celebrates the 90th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini (1924 – 2014). The task of the competition is to compose a Requiem for three part choir (STB), viola and organ (length between 5 up to 8 minutes), the same formation used by Giacomo…

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2014/03/15 The Fifth Annual Counterpoint International Competition

The Fifth Annual Counterpoint International Competition 2014 invites Compositions for a) flute solo, b) organ, piano or harpsichord solo, c) flute with any keyboard instrument, d) flute, cello, and keyboard instrument, e) cello solo, f) cello and keyboard instrument, g) cello and flute, h) electronics may be added to any of the above instrumental choices…

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2014/06/01 “FRANCESCO SICILIANI” PRIZE

2014/06/01 International Competition for a composition of sacred music “FRANCESCO SICILIANI” PRIZE has been presented in the Vatican. The Competition is a collaboration between the Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica Onlus, the Sagra Musicale Umbra Festival and the Pontifical Council for Culture, chaired by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi. The theme of the Competition is a work for…

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2014/09/30 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award

The orchestral composition competition will take place in 2014 and 2015. Young composers from all over the world are urged to submit their newly created works during their preferred competition year …read more

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2014/09/30 15th International Competition “Premio Trio di Trieste”

2014/09/30 The Associazione Chamber Music, in collaboration with Chromas – Associazione Musica Contemporanea, is pleased to organize the 15th International Competition “Premio Trio di Trieste” 2014 – Chamber Music Composition for Duos (string instruments and piano) in honour of the composer Giampaolo Coral. The aim of the contest is to stimulate and encourage the composition…

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2014/02/26-03/02 The third international Dutch Harp Festival

The theme of The third international Dutch Harp Festival is Storytelling, acknowledging and featuring the harpist’s original task as storyteller and news bringer. The Dutch Harp Festival created a revolution in 2010 with its special programming and combination of a competition and a festival. Young harpists from around the world compete for a place in…

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2014/07/17-07/21 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music

2014/07/17-07/21 The 2014 Festival of Contemporary Music, under the direction of John Harbison and Michael Gandolfi, will present programs featuring works by American composers, with a special emphasis on music from a younger generation of Americans, many of whom have been Fellows at the Tanglewood Music Center. Along with several of this country’s most prominent…

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2014/02/06-02/09 ECLAT

2014/02/06-09 ECLAT’s aim is to present innovative trends in music today and to show their connection with the important compositions of the 20th and 21st century. For this reason ECLAT is also an important forum for the promotion and presentation of young composers. Every year there are premieres and first performances in Germany of works…

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2014/01/22-01/26 Ultraschall, ‘the other festival for innovative music’

Supported by Deutschlandradio Kultur and the kulturradio of the rbb, is on New Music. HAU Hebbel am Ufer is hosting three concerts with a total of five ensembles. They will provide a sonic space for the enormous variety of contemporary music – without aesthetic blinders and often in that transitional space to theatre, which is…

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