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. 

38. Internationale Studienwoche für zeitgenössische Musik vom 1. bis 7. Mai 2016, Lüneburg

Presents in 7 live concerts and in 7 night concerts by electroacoustic music of international studios, seminars and workshops the development tendencies of new music, with the extension of voice / instrument with the help of electronic media in the foreground. Read more..

Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium 2017, 9-12 August Toronto

Call for Contributions NAISA, the CEC and the CMC are pleased to announce the 11th edition of the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES), and delighted to welcome Québec sound artist Chantal Dumas as Keynote Speaker for TIES 2017. Dumas is a highly respected sound artist who explores the medium of sound through the production of…

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…

Klarafestival, 9-24 March 2017

Klarafestival: Belgium’s only broadcasting festival brings classical music of the highest quality within the framework of an annual theme. Read more…

impuls Festival and Academy

Concerts with amongst others Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Schallfeld, Trio Accanto, with internationally renowned top musicians and various formations of young rising musicians, premieres of impuls commissions amongst others, classical modern literature as well as new and contemporary music, formats such as the impuls MinutenConcerts or A Day on Campus and in the City, discussions, a…

Dark Music Days 2017, January 26-28

Dark Music Days is an annual festival of contemporary and new music which takes place during the darkest period of the Icelandic winter at the concert hall Harpa in downtown Reykjavík. This year’s festival program presents a cross section of pioneering contemporary music from both sides of the Atlantic. The focus lies on works with…

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a three-week residency and musical utopia for innovative composers and performers dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music and is located in the beautiful Berkshire mountains in western Massachusetts. Application Deadline: Weds, January 18, 2017Read more…

The Music Biennale Zagreb, 22-29 April, 2017

The Music Biennale Zagreb is an international festival of contemporary music founded in 1961. During the festival’s days, in April every other year Zagreb is transformed into the cultural centre to which composers, music critics, the best musicians, and contemporary music and arts lovers from the region and Europe gravitate. The festival has a strong…

Festival Strings Lucerne

the Festival Strings Lucerne are a national and international chamber Orchestra. At 28th and 29th of January we will have two concerts with the composer Sofia Gubaidulina in the KKL Hall in Lucerne. Read more…

Musica nova Helsinki

Contemporary art music meets modern electronic at Musica nova Helsinki, February 1–12, 2017 The programme for Finland’s biggest contemporary music event has now been announced Alongside new classical music the festival, under the theme of Open Spaces, will also be focusing more strongly than before on electronic music and avant-garde pop. The chief guests are…