Festivals

Festivals around the globe!

The ISCM WNMD Festival is our signature annual event, bringing the world together for several days of concerts and meetings. Our member sections are also involved in many separate festivals that thy organise or participate in, and information about these festivals can be found here. 

Time of Music June 30 – July 5, 2015

Year 2015 edition of Time of Music Festival brings to Viitasaari, Finland two great names of contemporary British music, Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Brian Ferneyhough. Including several unique opportunities to study contemporary music with the world’s topmost composers, pedagogues and musicians. Read more…

Exposition of New Music 2015

Exposition of New Music 2015, 10. – 14. june in Brno WALKING THROUGH MUSIC. Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen. (Alvin Lucier) Contemporary music should be a free creation, an author’s voice through which abstract visions of greater and lesser truths, materialized into sound structures, are offered to us; a creation which…

ISCM-Musicarama 2015 Hong Kong

Festival ISCM-Musicarama 2015 Hong Kong will be a mini festival of ISCM to be held within 4 consecutive days from 31st May to 3rd June 2015. A total of 4 concerts and 1 symposium will be held in the government venues in Hong Kong. Read more…

Musica Electronica Nova festival

This sixth occurrence of the Musica Electronica Nova festival offers a diverse programme. Electronic music will be heard not only in concert, but also as an element of multimedia installations, stage performances, and on the screen. One of the leading threads of the festival is the fusion of electronic music with cinema. Friday, May 15…

Forum Wallis

Forum Wallis (International Contemporary Music Festival) chaired by IGNM-VS. Schloss Leuk (Switzerland), 21-25 May 2015. Read more…

2015/11/20-11/29 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

the UK’s largest international annual festival attracting leading composers and performers. Information about events, programme, and educational activities. Read more…

2015/10/02-10/11 Biennale Musica 2015

10 days of programming for the 59th International Festival of Contemporary Music featuring 18 concerts with 31 new works, of which 16 are world premieres. “The Festival will focus on the theme of “memory” – said director Ivan Fedele – considering it through its many facets”. Pierre Boulez, Georges Aperghis, Helmut Lachenmann, and Giuseppe Sinopoli…

EIGHT BRIDGES | Music for Cologne 2015

2015/04/30-05/10 EIGHT BRIDGES | Music for Cologne 2015 festival aims to make contemporary music accessible to as many people as possible, to give it the recognition it deserves. On all festival days there are exciting concerts and a wide range of workshops, films, exhibitions, lectures and special events for children. These all add up to…

Cairo Contemporary Music Days 2015

Cairo Contemporary Music Days 2015, APRIL 24 – MAY 10th Read more…

COMPOSIT

COMPOSIT is an international summer festival for composers of contemporary music taking place June 28-July 6th in Rieti, Italy. Internationally renown faculty guide and instruct participants through lessons and masterclasses on specialized topics. Composit is an opportunity for composers from around the world to engage with contemporary music, foster their personal artistic path and realize each…