Samuel Hvozdík Wins the 2024 ISCM Young Composer Award
Samuel Hvozdík (b. 1993 in Slovakia) has been awarded the 2024 ISCM Young Composer Award for his organ composition Magma which was performed by Swedish organist Hans Hellsten in the Fuglafjarðar Kirkja in Fuglafjørður during the 2024 ISCM World New Music Days in the Faroe Islands. The award is a €2500 commission to write a…
Chen Yi & Linda Catlin Smith Elected ISCM Honorary Members
During the first 2024 ISCM General Assembly on 24 June at the Kongshøll in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Chen Yi and Linda Catlin Smith were elected Honorary Members of the ISCM by almost unanimous consent. The ISCM has had honorary members since its founding in 1923, when Ferruccio Busoni, Maurice Ravel, Jean Sibelius, and Igor Stravinsky…
MATRIX has Assembled a Faroe Islands Music Playlist to Celebrate the Upcoming 2024 ISCM WNMD
MATRIX, the Flemish Section of ISCM, has assembled a Faroe Islands music playlist in celebration of the upcoming 2024 ISCM World New Music Days which takes place on the islands from 22 June to 1 July. Starting on 3 June, for each day leading up to the Festival, MATRIX has posted a “Faroe Islands recommended…
Composers Invited to Apply to the 9th Sterkfontein Composers Meeting
Composers from the international community are invited to apply to attend the 9th Sterkfontein Composers Meeting, which will take place from 4-15 December 2024 at the Nirox Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Sterkfontein Composers Meeting brings together the best young African composers every year in South Africa. It was established in 2012 at the…
VICC Residency
VICC – Visby International Centre for Composers in Visby, Gotland, Sweden have an annual co-operation program: the ISCM-VICC Composer in Residency Program.
Call For Works Announced for the 2025 ISCM WNMD in Portugal
Miso Music Portugal, the Portuguese ISCM Section, has announced the official Call for Works for the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World New Music Days 2025 in Portugal, which will take place in Lisbon and Porto from 30 May to 7 June 2025. ISCM Sections, Members, and Individual Applicants are invited to submit works…
Forecast’s 2024 Call for Proposals is Now Open
Forecast, an interdisciplinary mentorship program based in Berlin, has opened its annual call for proposals. The program offers creative thinkers from various disciplines the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. One of the experts in this edition is composer and performer Ute Wassermann. Wassermann is a German voice artist,…
Madli Marje Gildemann Wins 2023 ISCM Young Composer Award
Madli Marje Gildemann Sink (b. 1994 in Estonia) has been awarded the 2023 ISCM Young Composer Award for her 2020 composition Osmosis for violin, viola, cello, and piano which was performed during the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days in South Africa during an afternoon concert at the Morris Isaacson Centre for Music in Soweto…
Three New Members Elected to the ISCM ExCom
At the 2023 General Assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), held during the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days in South Africa, three new members were elected to the ISCM Executive Committee (ExCom): Chia-Lin Pan, Magnus Bunnskog, and Rebecca Diependaele. “We are delighted to have you on the team, and there are…
Further Details Announced for the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days and General Assembly in South Africa
The very first ISCM convening ever to take place on the African continent begins in another six weeks. Further details have been announced regarding the 2023 ISCM World New Music Days and General Assembly which will take place in South Africa from 24 November to 3 December 2023. The festival will open in Johannesburg in…