Call for Works WMD2018 Beijing launched
The ISCM World Music Days 2018 will take place in Beijing China from May 19 to May 26 2018. Beijing Modern Music Festival and ISCM kindly invite composers to submit scores. According to the “Rules of Procedure for the Organization of the ISCM World Music Days Festival”, submissions should be either official (by ISCM Members) or…
R. Murray Schafer Voted First Canadian Honorary Member of ISCM
At the opening 2017 General Assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) in Vancouver, which is concurrent with its annual contemporary music festival, the ISCM World New Music Days, the membership of the ISCM unanimously voted to elect composer, educator, author, and acoustic ecology pioneer R. Murray Schafer as an Honorary Member of…
IWYC, compositions for ENSEMBLE and for SOLO INSTRUMENTS OR VOICE
IWYC, compositions for ENSEMBLE Application deadline: November 30th 2017 Composition Workshop with Francesco Filidei, Mauro Lanza and Sandro Gorli 2 final concerts Bobbio (Piacenza), 6-15 July 2018 IWYC, compositions for SOLO INSTRUMENTS OR VOICE Application deadline: November 30th 2017 Composition Workshop with Stefano Gervasoni and Divertimento Ensemble soloist 4 final concerts Moncalvo (Asti), 3-8 September…
Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF)
The Mizzou New Music Initiative is now accepting applications for eight resident composers to take part in the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF), which will be held July 23- 28, 2018 on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, USA. Application Deadline: 5 PM Central November 17, 2017 Read more..
Asian Composers Showcase 2018 – Open Call for Scores
Asian Composers Showcase 2018 Open Call for Scores The Asian Composers Showcase was launched in 2013 by the Goethe-Institut together with the Tongyeong International Music Festival (TIMF) to promote the composition of New Music in North East Asia. For five years now a total of twenty compositions by promising composers have been premiered at TIMF. …
Klaus Huber (1924-2017)
Swiss composer, conductor and violinist Klaus Huber, a towering figure in modern music and an honorary member of the ISCM (since 1994), has died at the age of 92 in Perugia, Italy. Born in Bern in 1924, Huber studied violin and music pedagogy at the Zurich Conservatory from 1947 to 1949 with the legendary violinist…
November Music 2017
Visitors to November Music 2017 can fully enjoy today’s eclectic musical landscape. The festival showcases the prominent composers of our time. Not to mention top-notch ensembles, jazz & world pioneers, sound installations, and interdisciplinary concerts. November Music takes place from 2 through 12 November at various locations in the Dutch city of ’s-Hertogenbosch. The November…
composition competition Torre della Quarda
The composition competition “Torre della Quarda” is an international event; it will be a key element of Festival Internazionale di Musica di Savona and it will contribute to enrich an artistic proposal which has reached in 2018 its sixth edition. The principal objective of the competition is to give support to the composition of new…
Transit 2017 The sound of tomorrow
Transit aims to showcase the music of today, es-pecially those things we suspect will be relevant tomorrow as well and, who knows, may even set the tone for the future. We believe in presenting a sneak preview of the sound of tomorrow. This year we’re presenting a lot of new discov-eries, both in performers, with…
Composing in the Wilderness
On behalf of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival (Alaska, USA) I’m delighted to announce the 2018 offering of “Composing in the Wilderness”. Now in its seventh year, this one-of-a-kind creative adventure for composers is presented in collaboration with Alaska Geographic and the National Park Service of the USA. It is led by adventurer-composer Stephen Lias….