Ensemble Windstreken & Ruben Zahra
Ensemble Windstreken & Ruben Zahra The Dutch Ensemble Windstreken makes musical connections between very diverse music styles. It combines jazz and improvisation with medieval and contemporary classical music, Indian and North African music. Its main purpose is to discover surprising blends of sounds. The ensemble was founded by flutist/saxophonist Pieter van de Mast in 2004….
Reinhard Oehlschlägel (1936-2014)
We are very sad to note the passing of our honorary member Reinhard Oehlschlägel in Cologne on April 29, 2014. In the words of John Davis, our former president: “A true champion of contemporary music, Honorary Member of ISCM, fierce advocate, passionate about so much music. His MusikTexte magazine documents so much contemporary music from…
2014/04/30-05/11 Acht Brücken Festival
Man and machine, clock and pulse are the two pairs of opposites, which will highlight the festival. The audience will experience the diverse and fascinating world of percussion music, very close to the pulse and beat of the time! With a.o. Asko|Schönberg, E-MEX-Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble intercontemporain, ensemble mosaik, Ensemble musikFabrik, ensemble recherche, Experimentalstudio des…
2014/04/30-05/27 14e Extension Festival
14e Extension Festival de création musicale with a.o. Ensemble 2e2m. read more….
2014/05/07-05/23 14th Munich Biennale
14th Munich Biennale, Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater The motto contains sharpest contrasts: Liberation – disaster, relief – horror, departure – downfall. A composer tried to live and design as such, Claude Vivier, which was 34 years young, murdered on March 1983 in Paris. Vivier is where Marko Nikodijevićs’ Opera is about, which opens the…
2014/05/09-05/11 46st Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
46st Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik mit mehr als 25 Uraufführungen. Zu den Höhepunkten des aktuellen Jahrgangs gehört ein Ständchen zum 40. Geburtstag des Arditti String Quartet – ein Ensemble, Klanggrüße und -geschenke kommen u.a. von Harrison Birtwistle, Brian Ferneyhough, Toshio Hosokawa, György Kurtág und Wolfgang Rihm, Uri Caine und Brice Pauset. read more….
2014/05/09-05/11 The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s Tectonics festival
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s Tectonics festival returns to Glasgow this May, with a line-up that confirms its reputation as one of the world’s most adventurous ensembles. Tectonics Glasgow sees experimental music pioneers such as Christian Wolff and Takehisa Kosugi share the spotlight with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, contemporary vocal ensemble EXAUDI, Icelandic composer collective…
2014/05/24 6th Brandenburg Biennial
The Association of Friends of the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra (FBS e.V.) announces the sixth edition of its competition for composers of symphonic music. The competition is international and open to all age groups. read more….
2014/06/15 2 Agosto International Composing Competition
The Twentieth Edition of the “2 Agosto” International Composing Competition open to musicians of all nationalities, who are not older than 41 on June 15, 2014. Each composer may choose one or more video clips and then compose a score for such video clip(s). The score has to be for orchestra. read more…
2014/10/06-10/09 Seoul International Computer Music Festival
The Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society is proud to announce the Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF) 2014. read more…