call for applications composition academy Musica 2018
The artistic committee will assign 10 composers born after January 1st, 1983 with works written for: 1. vocal sextet: coloratura soprano, lyric soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, basssolo instrument and live electronics 2. solo instruments: flute (also piccolo, alto), B flat clarinet (also bass clarinet), tenor trombone (also alto, bass), piano, viola electronics: the software used…
USA International Harp Composition Contest
As part of its mission to promote harp and harp music, the USA International Harp Competition sponsors a Composition Contest that occurs every three years, prior to the performance Competition. Composers are invited to submit new works for solo harp. A distinguished panel of harpists plus one composer select the winning composition. Instrumentation: Solo harp…
Klarafestival 2018
Klarafestival is a high-quality international music festival that, based on a western classical music repertoire, dares to modernize. Using its Brussels identity as a foundation, Klarafestival is building a bridge to the outside world and is doing so locally (Brussels), nationally (Flanders and Wallonia) and internationally with the goal of enriching people’s lives. We include…
2018 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival
The deadline is Tuesday, January 9. 2018 at 5pm EST. The dates for the 2018 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA are July 9-29. We welcome applicants from all over the globe who are at least 21 years old as of the first day of the festival. Performance applicants, please note…
The International Computer Music Conference
The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2018 invites makers to submit their works (installations, music, panel proposals, papers, and workshop proposals) for the ICMC 2018, which will be held in Daegu, South Korea from August 5-10 2018. ICMC invites the community to consider this year’s theme Preserve | Engage | Advance as it broadly relates…
Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition
• The composition should be written for one piano (solo or for more than one pianist), and can include all facets of the instrument. • It is of great importance that the pieces be appropriate in their level of difficulty for children / young adults and be suitable for pedagogical use. Therefore the pianistic difficulties…
Composition Contest and Residency for Acoustic Instrument and Sampo
Musinfo is pleased to announce the fifth edition of the Composition Contest and Residency for Acoustic Instrument and Sampo. With this initiative Musinfo supports the work of contemporary composers in the field of live-electronic. The residency will take place during the 2018 Art & Science Days in Bourges. Read more…
call for Biennale College – Music
La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, announces the new edition of the Biennale College – Music with the launch of the del international call for teams consisting of a composer and a librettist, aged 35 and under. The project for the Biennale College – Music 2018 intends to promote and support the production…
Kalv call for applicants
DEADLINE for Application: 20th of February 2018 ANNOUNCEMENT of participants: 1st of March 2018 6-8 composers (of any age, nationality, occupation and aesthetics. However, precedence will be taken to emerging composers and not established composers) are invited to spend a week in Kalv working, lecturing and presenting their work under the supervision and assistance of…
See & Hear the Piece Which Earned James O’Callaghan the 2017 ISCM Young Composer Award
Immediately following the end of the final concert of the 2017 ISCM World New Music Days at the Vancouver Playhouse on 8 November 2017, Music On Main Artistic Director David Pay and ISCM Executive Committee member Kjartan Ólafsson announced from the stage that Vancouver-born, Montréal-based composer James O’Callaghan (b. 1988) is the winner of the…