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…
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
hcmf// is an annual, international festival of contemporary and new music, taking place over 10 days, Friday 18 – Sunday 27 November 2016, and consisting of approximately 50 events – including concerts, music-theatre, dance, multi-media, talks and film – with a related Learning and Participation programme devised and implemented to reflect the artistic programme and…
The finalists of the 5-Minute Piano Concerto Competition
Johannes Kalitzke (composer and conductor, Germany), Berislav Šipuš (composer and conductor, Croatia) and Daan Vandewalle (pianist, Belgium) confronted a challenging task – among 182 applied scored to distinguish 10 most successful ones which will be performed in April 2017 at the 29th MBZ. The finalists of the 5-Minute Piano Concerto Competition are: Christina Athinodorou, Cyprus,…
winners of the composer competition RicordiLab
Sarah Nemtsov, Shiori Usui and Steffen Wick are the winners of the composer competition RicordiLab. A total of 217 composers from 45 different countries had applied. Selected works of the winners will be performed by the artistic partners Basel Sinfonietta, Southbank Centre and Staatstheater Cottbus. Read more…