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12th SUN RIVER PRIZE Students’ New Music Composition Competition Chengdu, P.R. China, 2016

The competition of this year is chamber music, and the establishment of music instruments to be selected of 1-9 instrumentalists combined willingly and the same instrument is not more than 4. (Without any electronic instrument, equipment and computer) The composition should be under 12 minutes. Qualifications 1. All students (without any restrictions on nationalities, regions…

Live-electronic Composition Contest – Concours de Bourges 2016

Composers are invited to write a short study of 2 to 4 minutes maximum. The electroacoustic device is represented by the software P-Soft supplied byMusInfo. The composers whose studies are chosen will receive a commission from the Opus Centrum ensemble who collaborates with MusInfo. They will be invited to write a full length composition that…

Queen Elisabeth competition 2017

In 2017, the Queen Elisabeth competition is holding for the first time in its history a competition devoted to CELLISTS! Application deadline : 11 January 2017 Candidates must be born after 31 December 1986 The rules, as well as the online application form, will be available on www.qeimc.be as from September 2016 Read more…

International Summer Course for Composers SYNTHETIS July 18 and 30, 2016

The Music Gardens Foundation is pleased to invite young composers (up to 35 years old), from the world over, to participate in the 2016 edition of the International Summer Course for Composers SYNTHETIS, which will take place in Radziejowice (near Warsaw, Poland) between July 18 and 30, 2016. The participants of this year’s edition of…

The festival Klangbrücken«- sound bridges

The festival “»Klangbrücken«- sound bridges” is dedicated from 3rd to 10th of April in 12 concerts the work of Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008), one of the most colorful and exciting phenomena of recent music history. Read more…

Results os the Frederic Mompou International Award 2016

The jury of the 36th Young composer competition for the Frederic Mompou International Award, organized by Joventuts Musicals de Barcelona, met. The panel of judges was made up of Antonio Ballestín, Carles Guinovart, Víctor Estapé, Jesús Rodríguez Picó and Jesús Rueda and assisted by Miquel M. Badal in his position as secretary of the jury….

The ninth biennal competition for acousmatic competition

The 9th Métamorphoses Acousmatic Composition Competition, organized by Musiques et Recherches and held in occasion of the 23th International Acousmatic Festival Espace du Son (Marni Theatre, Brussels, the 19th of October 2016) has attributed the following prizes: First prize: Mirtru Escalona-Mijares – L’ermitage au toit de chaume Special Mention:Enrico Fiocco – Odissea Prize of the…

New Secretary General and Treasurer of our Society starting from 2016

After intense consultations and speaking with several interested persons, the Executive Committee has appointed Olga Smetanov as Secretary General and Walter De Schepper as Treasurer.  Olga Smetanová transformed the state agency National Music Centre -Slovkoncert to the modern institution Music Centre Slovakia, which she connected to many international organizations – ECPNM, IAMIC, IAML, EUYO, EFA,…

Operadagen Rotterdam from May 22nd through May 25th 2016.

Music Theatre NOW (MTN) is an international competition for all professional forms of opera and music theatre. The call for applications of the recent Music Theatre NOW edition ended June 30th 2015 and 3450 participants from 54 countries took part. The 18 artistic teams who won will be invited to the meeting, which will be…

7th Brandenburg Biennial

The Association of Friends of the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra (FBS e.V.) announces the seventh edition of its competition for composers of symphonic music. The competition is international and open to all age groups. Scores must be submitted by May 21st 2016. Read more…