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…
Call for Works for the 2020 ISCM World New Music Days in New Zealand Has Been Announced
The Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ), host of the 2020 ISCM World New Music Days, have announced the official Call for Works for the festival which will take place from 21-30 April 2020 in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand. (From 21-26 April, there will be numerous concerts as well as ISCM’s General Assembly meetings…
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…
Luc Brewaeys – The Whisky Tour
In November 2019, deSingel Antwerp (BE) will be raising a glass to the internationally respected Flemish composer Luc Brewaeys who died far too young in 2015. Brewaeys had long dreamt of journeying to Scotland to visit the distilleries of his favourite single malt whiskies, which several of his works are named after. He never made…
Call for Works for the 2020 ISCM World New Music Days in New Zealand Has Been Announced
The Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ), host of the 2020 ISCM World New Music Days, have announced the official Call for Works for the festival which will take place from 21-30 April 2020 in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand. (From 21-26 April, there will be numerous concerts as well as ISCM’s General Assembly meetings…
Jug K. Marković Wins the 2019 ISCM Young Composer Award
Serbian composer Jug K. Marković (b. December 25, 1987) has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 ISCM Young Composer Award for his 2017 Nirvana for mixed choir which was performed by the Latvian Radio Choir under the direction of Kaspars Ādamsons on May 6, 2019 at Jaani kirik (St. John’s Church) in Tartu,…