The ISCM Virtual Collaborative Series

Virtual collaborative series - from the ISCM members

The COVID-19 pandemic has made online activity more crucial than ever before by hindering numerous live events, many concerts included. Now is the right time to strengthen the online presence of contemporary music!

The goal of the project is to foster presence and coverage of contemporary music online via social media. We should not bear with just being overshadowed by popular and commercial music. Instead, let’s tease and entertain an audience looking for a new musical experience into getting acquainted with the best contemporary music available.

We hope that our social media project will, in its small way, help to motivate accessible discussions online, keeping our community more engaged. We also hope that our Facebook Showcases will build bridges between  different types of contemporary music, composed and performed in various regions of the World.

We look forward to making available internet wide all this exciting music and to nurturing a new audience for it!

– Irina Hasnas

[Ed. note: All ISCM Sections and Associate Member Organizations in good standing are invited to submit up to 6 works by composers in their region to be considered for inclusion in this newly launched ISCM Virtual Collaborative Series. There will be a new work posted every day during the first week of the launch and thereafter new works will be posted on an ongoing basis. Please come back to this site often to listen in as new works are added or to listen again to works that have already been posted. – FJO]

Ivan Ostapovych

Ivan Ostapovych: Songs of Love for String Orchestra

Composer and conductor Ivan Ostapovych (b. 1988 in the Chernivtsi Oblast in Western Ukraine) is the Co-Founder of the Collegium Musicum Lviv and the Collegium Musicum Chamber Orchestra for which he is the music director. He has also served as the Artistic Director for the ensemble’s Bach Music Days in 2014 and the Lviv Hindemith Fest in…

Julia Gomelskaya

Julia Gomelskaya: Jab-Jazz

[Ed. Note: The horrific invasion and war currently being waged on Ukraine has shocked the entire world. The ISCM supports our colleagues in Ukraine and to further call attention to them we will be exclusively featuring music by composers from Ukraine for the rest of this month as part of our ongoing ISCM Virtual Collaborative…

Laura Ana Mânzat

Laura Ana Mânzat: Concerto for 3 cellos and orchestra

Laura Ana Mânzat was born on the 24th of April 1969, in the town of Dej, Cluj County, Romania. She studied composition at the ‘’George Enescu’’ Academy of Music Iași, with Vasile Spătărelu as her professor and at the National University of Music Bucharest, with Ulpiu Vlad. She graduated in 1993. After that, she pursued…

Perttu Haapanen (Photo by Martti Jämsä)

Perttu Haapanen: Lost Boys

Perttu Haapanen (b. 1972) is a freelance composer who is especially interested in voice and languages and their relation to music. He likes abandoned office environments and has been fascinated many years by the doll universes of Annette Messager and Hans Bellmer. Haapanen also works as artistic director of Uusinta Ensemble. His music has been…

Maria Christina Krithara

Maria Christina Krithara: Some Fragments from the “Opus 111” transposed for the 21st century

Maria Christina Krithara (b. 1954 in Athens) studied piano at the National Conservatoire of Athens and composition at the “Nikos Skalkotas” Conservatoire with Michail Travlos, where she graduated from both with honours. Her works include solos, chamber music, orchestral works and vocal music. She has composed more than seventy works and most of them have…

Helmut Lachenmann (photo by Giovanni Dainotti)

Helmut Lachenmann: Notturno

Helmut Lachenmann (b. November 27, 1935 in Stuttgart) studied piano, theory, and counterpoint at the Music Conservatory in Stuttgart from 1955 to 1958 and from 1958 to 1960 composition with Luigi Nono in Venice. The first public performances of his works took place at the Biennale in Venice in 1962 and at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. After his teaching activity…

Emily Doolittle

Emily Doolittle: The Wise Daughter

Composer Emily Doolittle was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie, Indiana University, Princeton, and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague, where she studied with Louis Andriessen with the support a Fulbright fellowship. From 2008-2015 she lived in Seattle, where she was an Associate Professor of Music at Cornish College of the Arts….

Arturo Corrales

Arturo Corrales: Flow

Arturo Corrales is a composer, conductor, musicologist, guitarist, teacher and Salvadorian / Swiss architect. Born in El Salvador and naturalized Swiss, he studied music in San Salvador, Geneva, Lugano and Paris. Arturo Corrales is an intensely active composer on the swiss and international scene. Co founder of the Ensemble Vortex and the duo Electric Primitivo, for the…

Veronika Krausas

Veronika Krausas: Unintermezzi

Of Lithuanian heritage, composer Veronika Krausas was born in Australia raised in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. She has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video.  Commissions and performances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Industry, New York City Opera, Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Detroit…

Berislav Šipuš

Berislav Šipuš: Three Short Tales from Blind Forest

Berislav Šipuš (Zagreb, 1958) is one of the most active composers of the Croatian middle generation. Parallel with studying Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, he had studied and graduated incomposition from the Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of Stanko Horvat in 1987. He pursued his education…