Every year, a system involving local juries from member sections of the ISCM selects the works to be performed at the WNMD Festival. There are of course also a wide variety of other competitions for composers and musicians, and some of the most relevant ones are listed here.
5-Minute Piano Concerto Competition
Music Biennale Zagreb – Croatian Composers’ Society, Berislavićeva 9, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia (Hereinafter: HDS – MBZ) calls for applicants to submit their works for the “5-Minute Piano Concerto” Competition: The competition has set the objective to select ten (10) 5-minute piano concertos which will be premiered at 29th Music Biennale Zagreb, in April 2017,…
Ricordi Lab : Composition Competition
ricordi berlin has announced a brand new programme, ricordilab, that will provide the opportunity for up to five emerging composers to participate in a three-year collaboration with its publishing house. ricordi berlin will publish selected works and provide international promotion for successful applicants and will also support the laureates with expertise in the music industry….
international Italy Percussion Competition! 13th – 18th September 2016
The 14th edition of the international Italy Percussion Competition! 13th – 18th September 2016. Six categories from Marimba to Vibraphone, Timpani, Snare Drum, Drum Set to Composition. There will be one week full of music. Six juries of international percussion masters from all over the world. Percussion-culture at its best! – framed by the Days…
Georges Aperghis wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Contemporary Music category goes in this eighth edition to Georges Aperghis for reinventing musical theater and taking it in entirely new directions. “He has opened up a unique path in the territory of musical theater employing new scenic devices whereby everything becomes music, starting from the…
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Contemporary Music distinguishes composers, conductors and performers who have demonstrated exceptional attainments in the classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Contemporary Music award will consist of € 400.000, a diploma and a commemorative artwork. The closing date for submissions is June 30, 2016, at…
Livorno Music Festival
From the 22th of August to the 7th of September 2016, 11 Master Classes will be held by internationally renowned performers and professors from the most prestigious Music Institutions, such as the Royal Academy of Music, London; the Conservatoire National Supérieur of Paris; the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, in Cologne, in Freibourg and Berne….
the Ninth Competition of Electro-acoustic Composition
The Foundation Destellos, call for works for the Ninth Competition of Electro-acoustic Composition, open to composers of any nationality, age and gender. The objectives of this competition are the promotion and development of the artistic creation in relation with new technologies. Likewise, it is an intention of the Foundation Destellos to stimulate the creativity of…
IX. International Accordion Composition Competition “Francisco Escudero”
Hauspoz Euskal Herriko Akordoei Elkartea calls for the IX. International Composition Competition “Francisco Escudero”. – The objective of the contest is to promote the creation of pieces for solo accordion and for accordion in chamber music. – A unique category with works composed for solo accordion and for chamber music with accordion which length…
International Festival of Electroacoustic Music
Composers, regardless their age and nationality are invited to submit their works of electro-acoustic music, electroacoustic music and video, Video Mapping. Guidelines for submission of works: Deadline for receipt of entries will Date: July 1 2016 They will participate works composed after January 2008 The duration of the work will be between 5 and 15…
Composition competition organised by Orchestre national d’Île-de-France
Theme : to compose “The Migrant’s Tale” for orchestra This 5th competition is opened to composers under 33 years old on January 1st 2017, from any country and enrolled in composition and/or orchestration training program in the European Union within the five last years. Applicants must write two movements, two minutes each, of a five…