Portugal 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…

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Joji 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…

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Samuel Hvozdík Wins the 2024 ISCM Young Composer Award

Samuel Hvozdik Exploring

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…

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Chen Yi & Linda Catlin Smith Elected ISCM Honorary Members

Chen Yi & Linda Catlin Smith

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…

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Call For Works Announced for the 2025 ISCM WNMD in Portugal

Lisbon and Porto

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…

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Madli Marje Gildemann Wins 2023 ISCM Young Composer Award

Madli-Marge-Gildemann

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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Three New Members Elected to the ISCM ExCom

2023 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…

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Call for Works for 2024 ISCM WNMD in Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

We are pleased to announce the official Call for Works for the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World New Music Days 2024. Members are invited to submit scores/projects for the festival, scheduled to take place in the Faroe Islands from 22 – 30 June 2024. For further information about the festival as well as…

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Selected Works Announced for the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days in South Africa

Globe turned toward Africa

The ISCM South Africa Section (NewMusicSA), the organizer of the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days, has announced the works that have been selected for performance from the call for scores. The chosen works are listed below, beginning with selections from official submissions from the ISCM’s membership (first ISCM sections then associate members) arranged alphabetically…

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