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. 

2014/02/26-03/02 The third international Dutch Harp Festival

The theme of The third international Dutch Harp Festival is Storytelling, acknowledging and featuring the harpist’s original task as storyteller and news bringer. The Dutch Harp Festival created a revolution in 2010 with its special programming and combination of a competition and a festival. Young harpists from around the world compete for a place in…

2014/07/17-07/21 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music

2014/07/17-07/21 The 2014 Festival of Contemporary Music, under the direction of John Harbison and Michael Gandolfi, will present programs featuring works by American composers, with a special emphasis on music from a younger generation of Americans, many of whom have been Fellows at the Tanglewood Music Center. Along with several of this country’s most prominent…

2014/02/06-02/09 ECLAT

2014/02/06-09 ECLAT’s aim is to present innovative trends in music today and to show their connection with the important compositions of the 20th and 21st century. For this reason ECLAT is also an important forum for the promotion and presentation of young composers. Every year there are premieres and first performances in Germany of works…

2014/01/22-01/26 Ultraschall, ‘the other festival for innovative music’

Supported by Deutschlandradio Kultur and the kulturradio of the rbb, is on New Music. HAU Hebbel am Ufer is hosting three concerts with a total of five ensembles. They will provide a sonic space for the enormous variety of contemporary music – without aesthetic blinders and often in that transitional space to theatre, which is…

2014/02/15 The 6th International Competition

2014/02/15 The 6th International Competition and Festival of Soloists and Chamber Groups Svirél between March 28 and April 13, 2014 will inspire with its young participants in the castle of Štanjel in Karst Region a special artistic atmosphere. Hoping to offer the most promising Slovenian and foreign musicians the best, the organizational team of Svirél…

2014/02/10 Composit

2014/02/10 Composit is an international summer festival for composers and conductors of contemporary music. Internationally renowned faculty guide and instruct participants through lessons and masterclasses on specialized topics. Composit is an opportunity for composers and conductors from around the world to engage with contemporary music, foster their personal artistic path and realize each musical endeavors…

2014/07/04-07/17 The soundSCAPE festival

2014/07/04-07/17 The soundSCAPE festival (composition and performance exchange) is accepting applicants for its 2014 (10th) season, July 4-17, Maccagno, Italian Alps. Composers and performers from around the world participate in 2 weeks of intensive work in performance/composition, career development, collaboration, improvisation, and participate in lessons, lectures, master classes, and workshops with some of today’s preeminent…

2013/07/02-12/24 – Audio Art

2013/07/20-12/24 Audio Art is an experimental and postmodernist art of the close of XX century and the beginning of the XXI century. Audio Art is an integration of sound and visual art. Presentation of Audio Art appears in form of the concert, performance and installation. Audio Art creates new concept of sound source: as an…