Conferences / Workshops

The ISCM WNMD often has conferences and workshops as part of this annual event. There are also of course many conferences and workshops that are relevant to our goals, and these are listed here. 

EMC 5th European Forum on Music

2015/06/11-06/14 the 5th European Forum on Music which will be held in Riga, Latvia and co-hosted by the Latvian Music Council. The title of the next edition of the EMC annual conference is: Access to music is digital? and it will explore how new technologies facilitate the work of cultural institutions, how improved access to…

2015/01/19 I-Park multi-disciplinary artists-in-residence program

I-Park, located in rural East Haddam, CT (U.S.), announces its 2015 multi-disciplinary artists-in-residence program. The program is open to composers and those working in the field of sound art/design/sculpture. Other creative disciplines represented: visual arts, architecture, moving image, creative writing and landscape/garden/ecological design. Self-directed residencies will be offered from May through November, 2015. Most residencies…

2015/02/20 The Charlotte New Music Festival

The Charlotte New Music Festival is an intense workshop for composers, filled with private lessons, panel discussions, composition masterclasses, presentations, rehearsals, and public concerts. In the evenings, participating composers will have multiple opportunities to attend several other concerts and perform their music during a “New Music Open Mic Night” in a hip Charlotte music venue….

2015/06/15 International Composition Competition Piero Farulli

In order to create a new repertoire for young string quartets, the Association Piero Farulli announces a competition open to all composers of the European Union for creating works of max 15 minutes duration, for string quartet (two violins, viola and cello). The jury will be composed by three distiguished musicians (one composer and two…

2015/02/16 Composition Academy/Festival Musica

An interactive course with two professional ensembles in partnership with the Strasbourg Conservatoire, the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR), the University of Strasbourg, Musica festival. ; Composition teacher, Philippe Manoury, Hanspeter Kyburz With the ensembles: Linea (director, Jean-Philippe Wurtz) and Accroche Note. For a period of two weeks, the two teachers’ work with…

2015/02/27 Conlon Foundation Residency

In 2015 the Conlon Foundation is starting up a residency program for composers interested in working with the foundation’s Yamaha Disklavier to create an imaginative composition for Disklavier solo with electronics, and/or for combinations with other media, with the option of using a pianist. Using alternative controllers, video, live sampling or the ‘preparation’ of the…

Curated Place

Curated Place in partnership with Icelandic new music and art festival CYCLE, Pinquins percussion trio (Norway), Kammerkor Sudurlands (Iceland) with British new music Ensemble Psappha are offering composers the opportunity to participate in a new programme and network producing and promoting new music – exploring the boundaries of presentation and performance. Read more…

2015/04/15 repertoire for young string quartets

In order to create a new repertoire for young string quartets, the Association Piero Farulli announces a competition (PDF Call for Entries) open to all composers of the European Union for creating works of max 15 minutes duration, for string quartet (two violins, viola and cello). The jury will be composed by three distiguished musicians…

LOOP Festival

2014/11/29-12/06 Initiated in 2008, the LOOP Festival takes place every year around the last week end of November. The concert progam aims at giving a showcase of the diversity of the music in the Belgian French-speaking community. « Loop », as its name suggests, dedicates a large part of its concerts to electronic music (acousmatic…

2014/09/26-10/19 The musikprotokoll

The musikprotokoll laboratory is opening its doors for the forty-seventh time. Artists, musicians, composers and experimenters from across the globe are coming to Graz to share the current results of their work: Klangforum Wien, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Arditti Quartet, Radian & The Necks, Andrey Kiritchenko, Klaus Lang and many more. Read more….