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.
The BERLINER OPERNPREIS
The BERLINER OPERNPREIS will provide the opportunity to produce a half-hour piece of music theater under the motto TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT! at the expenses of those presenting the prize with a world premiere production in Berlin. To apply, you simply need to submit a concept for a new piece of music theater which…
Falco Pols wins bonn hoeren – sonotopia 2017 Prize
The Beethovenstiftung für Kunst und Kultur der Bundesstadt Bonn (Beethoven Foundation for Art and Culture of the Federal City of Bonn) awarded the bonn hoeren – sonotopia Prize for Installation-based Sound Art on March 8th 2017 for the third time at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn. The first-prize winner of the European competition for students of…
the 38th Young Composer Competition, 2017, Frederic Mompou International Award
Any composer who is not over 35 years of age on December 31, 2017 can participate in this competition. The works must be completely unknown. They must not have been previously performed, published or disseminated in any way or in any computer sound file. The musical formation this year is for Trio for clarinet, cello…
45th Pan Music Festival 2017 Guidelines
45th Pan Music Festival 2017 Guidelines ISCM Korea is pleased to announce the 45th Pan Music Festival 2017. The annual festival endeavour to introduce recent contemporary music and to invite composers and performers to listen their music and works. The festival is a great occasion to meet and communicate with all musicians including living…
The Fourth International Composition Contest for Acoustic Instrument and electroacoustic device Sampo
MusInfo is pleased to announce the fourth edition of the International composition contest for acoustic instrument and electroacoustic device Sampo. With this initiative MusInfo proposes to open a new space intended to uphold the work of contemporary composers and sound artists in the field of “live-electronic” music. Composers are invited to write a short study…
The Delian Academy for New Music
The Delian Academy for New Music is excited to collaborate with Oerknal, a collective of young professional musicians based in The Netherlands. Selected composers can submit a new or existing piece to be performed in Grypario Concert Hall in Mykonos. The available instrumentation is flute, clarinet, piano, violin and violoncello. Any combination, from solo to…
X INTERNATIONAL ACCORDION COMPOSITION COMPETITION FRANCISCO ESCUDERO
Hauspoz Euskal Herriko Akordeoi Elkartea, calls for the X 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 does not…
THE MATAN GIVOL INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS COMPETITION 2017
Meitar Ensemble announces the 2nd Matan Givol International Composers Competition. Composers from all over the world are invited to present works for Meitar Ensemble. The competition is an open call for composers of all ages and nationalities. The promotion of New Chamber and Ensemble Music was Meitar Ensemble’s goal and ambition for many years….
Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium 2017
Call for Submissions / Appel à contribution The symposium will take place in Toronto from 9-12 August 2017 in Toronto’s Distillery District. We are now inviting proposals for papers, lecture-recitals, special sessions of 2 to 4 panellists, compositions and performances to be presented at TIES 2017. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 3 MARCH 2017 Read more…
Call for Scores für das Newcomer-Konzert in Witten 2017
The WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) and the Institute for New Music at the University of Music and Dance Cologne are again looking for student compositions to be presented during the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2017. The works will be performed on the first day of the festival (Friday, May 5th 2017) by musicians of the…