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ISCM General Assembly Unanimously Supports Romania’s Bid to Host the World New Music Days in 2026
On 4 March 2025, during an extraordinary general assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music held over Zoom, the delegates unanimously voted in support of the ISCM Romanian Section’s bid to host the 2026 ISCM World New Music Days in Bucharest, Romania. Subtitled “Columna Infinita” after the famous sculpture by 20th-century Romanian art icon…
Read MoreAchtung International! Salzburg & 100 Years of the International Society for Contemporary Music
On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the ISCM Universität Mozarteum Salzburg has put together an extensive publication on the history of the ISCM. Achtung International! Salzburg & 100 Years of the International Society for Contemporary Music | Salzburg & 100 Jahre Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik covers a wide range of topics and…
Read MoreCall for Works for score collection ‘No(w) String’ (MATRIX New Music Centre / Flemish Section)
The ISCM Flemish Section (MATRIX New Music Centre) is launching a Call for Works. As part of their educational activities they are preparing an anthology of contemporary music for string instruments, suitable for young / amateur musicians. The Call invites each section of the ISCM to suggest up to 3 suitable compositions for this collection.…
Read MoreApplications Now Open for The 2025 LunART Composers Hub
Applications are open from today, 15 November 2024, until 1 February 2025 (DEADLINE EXTENDED) 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…
Read MorePortugal Announces Works Chosen for the 2025 ISCM WNMD
Miso Music Portugal, the Portuguese Section of the ISCM and the host of the 2025 ISCM World New Music Days Festival titled “Thirst For Change”, has announced the works that have been selected for performance on the festival, which will take place in Lisbon and Porto from 30 May to 7 June 2025, from the…
Read MoreJoji Yuasa (1929-2024)
Composer, educator, and ISCM Honorary Member Joji Yuasa died on 24 July 2024 at the age of 94. Curiously, Yuasa, born on 12 August 1929 in Fukushima, Japan, did not begin to completely immerse himself in music until he was in his early 20s and originally pursued medical studies. Largely self-taught as a composer, in…
Read MoreSamuel Hvozdík Wins the 2024 ISCM Young Composer Award
Samuel Hvozdík (b. 1993 in Slovakia) has been awarded the 2024 ISCM Young Composer Award for his organ composition Magma which was performed by Swedish organist Hans Hellsten in the Fuglafjarðar Kirkja in Fuglafjørður during the 2024 ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands. The award is a €2500 commission to write a…
Read MoreChen Yi & Linda Catlin Smith Elected ISCM Honorary Members
During the first 2024 ISCM General Assembly on 24 June at the Kongshøll in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Chen Yi and Linda Catlin Smith were elected Honorary Members of the ISCM by almost unanimous consent. The ISCM has had honorary members since its founding in 1923, when Ferruccio Busoni, Maurice Ravel, Jean Sibelius, and Igor Stravinsky…
Read MoreCall For Works Announced for the 2025 ISCM WNMD in Portugal
Miso Music Portugal, the Portuguese ISCM Section, has announced the official Call for Works for the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World New Music Days 2025 in Portugal, which will take place in Lisbon and Porto from 30 May to 7 June 2025. ISCM Sections, Members, and Individual Applicants are invited to submit works…
Read MoreMadli Marje Gildemann Wins 2023 ISCM Young Composer Award
Madli Marje Gildemann Sink (b. 1994 in Estonia) has been awarded the 2023 ISCM Young Composer Award for her 2020 composition Osmosis for violin, viola, cello, and piano which was performed during the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days in South Africa during an afternoon concert at the Morris Isaacson Centre for Music in Soweto…
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