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2017 Composition Competition of the Fribourg International Festival of Sacred Music

The instrumental work should be inspired by the painting “Vanitas – Still life with skull” (Vanitas – Stillleben mit Totenkopf) by Sebastian Stoskopff (1597-1658) which is part of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland) collection; a photo of the painting can be found at the end of this brochure. The submitted composition must be exclusively for: •…

International Composition Competition for Junior String Quartet dedicated to the memory of Piero Farulli

Applications are open for the International Composition Competition for Junior String Quartet dedicated to the memory of Piero Farulli, viola of the legendary Quartetto Italiano and founder of the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. The aim of the competition is to increase and enrich the virtually non-existent repertoire for young and very young players of…

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…

the 2017 Robot Keyboard Prize

In 2017, for the first time, the UnCaged Toy Piano (US) and Conlon Foundation (NL) will collaborate on a joint call for submissions for the 2017 Robot Keyboard Prize. For this year’s competition, we are seeking adventurous new works for Ranjit Bhatnagar’s midi-controlled Robot Toy Piano. Innovative ways of integrating electronics are encouraged, but not…

11th World Symposium on Choral Music

2017 is the year of the 11th World Symposium on Choral Music that will be held in Barcelona, from 22nd to 29th July. Barcelona is a cultural city where choral music is a very important ingredient, with hundreds of choirs coming from very diverse spheres and with a wide range of styles. We are working…

the International Composition Competition »Leibniz’s Harmonies«

Prize Winners Concert of the International Composition Competition »Leibniz’s Harmonies« I Prizewinners category »Orchestra« Compositions for Orchestra: 1st Prize Timo Ruttkamp (*1980, Köln): Mitternachtssonnenwindspieluhr Prize money: 5000 € 2nd Prize Dong Lingyi (*1995, Taiyuan|Beijing): Resonance Prize money: 4000 € 3rd Prize ex aequo Alessio Elia (*1979): Labyrinthum continui Prize money: 1500 € 3rd Prize ex…

1st Ensemble Festival 2nd – 4th December 2016, Cologne

with Electronic D, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Musikfabrik, hand werk, Kölner Vokalsolisten and MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle Musik. Ensemble Musikfabrik play works by the winners of the composing award 2016 of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Milica Djordjevic, David Hudry and Gordon Kampe Read more…

contemporary music festival Greatest Hits

Founded in 2013, the fourth edition of the contemporary music festival Greatest Hits takes place from 17 to 20 November 2016 at Kampnagel. Read more…