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2014/09/30 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award

The orchestral composition competition will take place in 2014 and 2015. Young composers from all over the world are urged to submit their newly created works during their preferred competition year …read more

2014/09/30 15th International Competition “Premio Trio di Trieste”

2014/09/30 The Associazione Chamber Music, in collaboration with Chromas – Associazione Musica Contemporanea, is pleased to organize the 15th International Competition “Premio Trio di Trieste” 2014 – Chamber Music Composition for Duos (string instruments and piano) in honour of the composer Giampaolo Coral. The aim of the contest is to stimulate and encourage the composition…

2014/02/26-03/02 The third international Dutch Harp Festival

The theme of The third international Dutch Harp Festival is Storytelling, acknowledging and featuring the harpist’s original task as storyteller and news bringer. The Dutch Harp Festival created a revolution in 2010 with its special programming and combination of a competition and a festival. Young harpists from around the world compete for a place in…

2014/07/17-07/21 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music

2014/07/17-07/21 The 2014 Festival of Contemporary Music, under the direction of John Harbison and Michael Gandolfi, will present programs featuring works by American composers, with a special emphasis on music from a younger generation of Americans, many of whom have been Fellows at the Tanglewood Music Center. Along with several of this country’s most prominent…

2014/02/06-02/09 ECLAT

2014/02/06-09 ECLAT’s aim is to present innovative trends in music today and to show their connection with the important compositions of the 20th and 21st century. For this reason ECLAT is also an important forum for the promotion and presentation of young composers. Every year there are premieres and first performances in Germany of works…

2014/01/22-01/26 Ultraschall, ‘the other festival for innovative music’

Supported by Deutschlandradio Kultur and the kulturradio of the rbb, is on New Music. HAU Hebbel am Ufer is hosting three concerts with a total of five ensembles. They will provide a sonic space for the enormous variety of contemporary music – without aesthetic blinders and often in that transitional space to theatre, which is…

2014/02/15 Image & Resonance

2014/02/15 The Foundation Destellos is pleased to announce the second Cycle of Electroacoustic Visual Music “Image & Resonance” The call will be open to composers and visual artists of any age. … read more

2014/01/31 CoPeCo master’s programme

2014/01/31 CoPeCo is a two-year joint master’s programme in Contemporary Performance and Composition and an open platform for experimental musical practice within a European setting. CoPeCo is for a musician (composer, performer or both) passionate about experimenting with new music and looking for a possibility to complete a large-scale individual artistic project in a supportive…

2014/02/01 The C4 Commissioning Competition

2014/02/01 The C4 Commissioning Competition will give three finalists the opportunity to compose new works for C4: the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective. …read more

2014/02/15 The 6th International Competition

2014/02/15 The 6th International Competition and Festival of Soloists and Chamber Groups Svirél between March 28 and April 13, 2014 will inspire with its young participants in the castle of Štanjel in Karst Region a special artistic atmosphere. Hoping to offer the most promising Slovenian and foreign musicians the best, the organizational team of Svirél…