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Call 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 15 January 2025 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 Hub is…
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…
Read MoreThree New Members Elected to the ISCM ExCom
At the 2023 General Assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), held during the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days in South Africa, three new members were elected to the ISCM Executive Committee (ExCom): Chia-Lin Pan, Magnus Bunnskog, and Rebecca Diependaele. “We are delighted to have you on the team, and there are…
Read MoreFurther Details Announced for the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days and General Assembly in South Africa
The very first ISCM convening ever to take place on the African continent begins in another six weeks. Further details have been announced regarding the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days and General Assembly which will take place in South Africa from 24 November to 3 December 2023. The festival will open in Johannesburg in…
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