Musica Sacra International 2016, May 13 – 18
Musica Sacra International 2016, brings music from the five major world religions into the Allgäu region, organizing concerts in which Christians, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists and Hindus meet and perform together. provides an insight into foreign cultures provides as an aid to better mutual understanding, offers lectures, a comprehensive programme booklet in two languages with articles…
ICMC 2016, 42nd International Computer Music Conference
ICMC 2016, 42nd International Computer Music Conference will be hosted in the city of Utrecht, by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, HKU Music and Technology and the annual new music festival Gaudeamus Muziekweek. The conference begins with a concert on the evening of Sunday 11 September 2016 and ends with a concert on the…
5-Minute Piano Concerto Competition
Music Biennale Zagreb – Croatian Composers’ Society, Berislavićeva 9, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia (Hereinafter: HDS – MBZ) calls for applicants to submit their works for the “5-Minute Piano Concerto” Competition: The competition has set the objective to select ten (10) 5-minute piano concertos which will be premiered at 29th Music Biennale Zagreb, in April 2017,…
2016 Pan Music Festival in Korea
ISCM Korea is pleased to announce the 44th Pan Music Festival 2016. The annual festival endeavour to introduce recent contemporary music and to invite composers and performers to listen their music and works. The festival is a great occasion to meet and communicate with all musicians including living composers. In order to enhance the musical…
Ricordi Lab : Composition Competition
ricordi berlin has announced a brand new programme, ricordilab, that will provide the opportunity for up to five emerging composers to participate in a three-year collaboration with its publishing house. ricordi berlin will publish selected works and provide international promotion for successful applicants and will also support the laureates with expertise in the music industry….
international Italy Percussion Competition! 13th – 18th September 2016
The 14th edition of the international Italy Percussion Competition! 13th – 18th September 2016. Six categories from Marimba to Vibraphone, Timpani, Snare Drum, Drum Set to Composition. There will be one week full of music. Six juries of international percussion masters from all over the world. Percussion-culture at its best! – framed by the Days…
EIGHT BRIDGES | MUSIC FOR COLOGNE 30 April to 10 May 2016
In direct environment of the Cologne Cathedral – World Heritage Site, popular sight in Germany and the third-tallest church building in the world – is heard from 30 April eleven days of music under the motto “Music and Faith”. No it isn’t a religious festival; EIGHT BRIDGES has contemporary music at the center, in addition…
Georges Aperghis wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Contemporary Music category goes in this eighth edition to Georges Aperghis for reinventing musical theater and taking it in entirely new directions. “He has opened up a unique path in the territory of musical theater employing new scenic devices whereby everything becomes music, starting from the…
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Contemporary Music distinguishes composers, conductors and performers who have demonstrated exceptional attainments in the classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Contemporary Music award will consist of € 400.000, a diploma and a commemorative artwork. The closing date for submissions is June 30, 2016, at…
34. Rassegna di Nuova Musica
34. Rassegna di Nuova Musica Teatro Lauro Rossi – Macerata 11 12 13 14 aprile 2016 Works by György Ligeti, Franco Donatoni, Conlon Nancarrow, Helmut Lachenmann and Stefano Scodanibbio. Read more…