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. 

City of Derry International Choral Competition

City of Derry International Choral Competition Open to any youth or adult choir of international standing with a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 60 members. All singers must be over 15 years of age. Repertoire The programme must be entirely a capella, represent an historically balanced range of styles and include at least;…

Musica Sacra International 2016, May 13 – 18

Musica Sacra International 2016, brings music from the five major world religions into the Allgäu region, organizing concerts in which Christians, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists and Hindus meet and perform together. provides an insight into foreign cultures provides as an aid to better mutual understanding, offers lectures, a comprehensive programme booklet in two languages with articles…

ICMC 2016, 42nd International Computer Music Conference

ICMC 2016, 42nd International Computer Music Conference will be hosted in the city of Utrecht, by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, HKU Music and Technology and the annual new music festival Gaudeamus Muziekweek. The conference begins with a concert on the evening of Sunday 11 September 2016 and ends with a concert on the…

2016 Pan Music Festival in Korea

ISCM Korea is pleased to announce the 44th Pan Music Festival 2016. 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 composers. In order to enhance the musical…

international Italy Percussion Competition! 13th – 18th September 2016

The 14th edition of the international Italy Percussion Competition! 13th – 18th September 2016. Six categories from Marimba to Vibraphone, Timpani, Snare Drum, Drum Set to Composition. There will be one week full of music. Six juries of international percussion masters from all over the world. Percussion-culture at its best! – framed by the Days…

EIGHT BRIDGES | MUSIC FOR COLOGNE 30 April to 10 May 2016

In direct environment of the Cologne Cathedral – World Heritage Site, popular sight in Germany and the third-tallest church building in the world – is heard from 30 April eleven days of music under the motto “Music and Faith”. No it isn’t a religious festival; EIGHT BRIDGES has contemporary music at the center, in addition…

34. Rassegna di Nuova Musica

34. Rassegna di Nuova Musica Teatro Lauro Rossi – Macerata 11 12 13 14 aprile 2016 Works by György Ligeti, Franco Donatoni, Conlon Nancarrow, Helmut Lachenmann and Stefano Scodanibbio. Read more…

MATA festival NYC 11 – 16 april 2016 New York.

MATA, Founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa in 1996, presents a week-long festival of music by composers under age forty each spring in New York City. Each festival presents up to thirty works by young composers, at least three to four of which are newly commissioned. Read more..

Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium 10-13 August 2016

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) are pleased to announce the 10th edition of the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES), and delighted to welcome multifaceted artist John Oswald as Keynote Speaker this year. Governor General award-winning and prolific media artist, composer and saxophonist, John…

The festival Klangbrücken«- sound bridges

The festival “»Klangbrücken«- sound bridges” is dedicated from 3rd to 10th of April in 12 concerts the work of Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008), one of the most colorful and exciting phenomena of recent music history. Read more…