1st Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival “Art Creation Awards” International Orchestral Composition Competition 2020
1st Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival “Art Creation Awards” International Orchestral Composition Competition 2020 The 1st “Art Creation Awards” International Orchestral Composition Competition 2020 is one of the events of the Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival 2020 to encourage young composers to create more original works. Rather than just a single-orientation competition, it is blended with concerts,…
16th SUN RIVER PRIZE Students’ New Music Composition Competition Chengdu, P.R. China, 2020
16th SUN RIVER PRIZE Students’ New Music Composition Competition Chengdu, P.R. China, 2020 ◆Sponsored by Sichuan Conservatory of Music ◆Organized by Composition Department of Sichuan Conservatory of Music ISCM-Chengdu section Research Institute of Composition Technique of Sichuan Conservatory of Music ◆Chairmen of the Organizing Committee Prof. Zhou Siyuan Chairperson of Sichuan Conservatory of Music Council…
ISCM World New Music Days 2020 Postponed
ANNOUNCEMENT – 16 March 2020 With much sadness, I must announce that the double festival of ISCM World New Music Days and Asian Composers League Festival cannot take place in 2020. We were very much looking forward to presenting this ambitious double festival for the first time in Aotearoa New Zealand. This difficult decision has…
BREAKING NEWS Re ISCM WNMD 2020
Due to travel restrictions and other measures that are evolving very quickly on a global scale, we are aware that most international visitors to New Zealand will be unable to travel to the ISCM2020 World New Music Days / Asian Composers League 2020 Festival. We are working through the implications with the Executive Committees of…
Winners List of the 8th RACC 2019
First Prize： The Solitary’s dream – For Flute, Pipa, Erhu, Piano and String Quartet Composer Sheng Meng (China) Second Prize： Pendulum Trigonometry – For Erhu, Violin, Cello, Pipa and Piano Composer Kevin Lang (Austria) LvYao – For Xindi, Pipa, Erhu, Piano, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Double Bass Composer Wang Ruiqi (China) Third Prize： Lyrical…
The 9th Rivers Awards Composition Competition (RACC) 2020
— Regulations —— I. General ProvisionsThe Rivers Awards Composition Competition aims to promote extensive exchange between Chinese and Western music, encouraging innovative and explorative composition for Chinese and Western musical instruments, and build a high-end platform to introduce outstanding original musical works to the public. II. OrganizationHost: Shanghai Conservatory of Music（SHCM）Organizer: The Composition Department of…
A Call of Composition for International Students 2020 —The 13th Shanghai New Music Week
As a part of master-class of the Shanghai New Music Week, the call of composition aims to encourage students to compose more creative and excellent works. Five pieces will be selected from the entries by a jury of Chengjie Zhang, Deqing Wen, Narong Prangcharon. The final concert will be held from 15:15 to 17:15 September…
Final Evaluation of 15th SUN RIVER PRIZE (2019) Students’ New Music Composition Competition, Chengdu, China
Final Evaluation of 15th SUN RIVER PRIZE (2019) Students’ New Music Composition Competition, Chengdu, China 2019 CHENGDU-CHINA 15th SUN RIVER PRIZE Students’ New Music Composition Competition has successfully ended on December 8th, 2019. The committee received 57 pieces from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippine, USA, France, Brazil, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, Poland, Malaysia, UK, Japan,…
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…
A World of New Music Encourages the International Art of Deep Listening —the 2017 ISCM World New Music Days in Vancouver
When I was asked to attend the World New Music Days ISCM 2017, some 48 hours before it began, and to write a comprehensive festival report, I was standing by for a journey to Najaf, in Southern Iraq. At night I skyped contacts in Baghdad and listened to mournful Shiah chants, their fragile beauty now…