1938 London

…listeners cannot always, at first hearing, tell a crackpot musician from a genius, the work of contemporary highbrow composers is unpopular. … To combat this deafness and muteness, societies of…

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Cecilia Arditto: Tissue

Cecilia Arditto standing on a railway platform (Photo by Daniel Nicolas)

…(2019) is Ms. Arditto’s most recent orchestral composition and was the winner of the Rychenberg Competition for orchestra 2020 in Switzerland. The composer writes: Big surfaces of skin, wood, metal,…

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João Madureira: Open Enclosure

João Madureira

…dimensions. About his 2019 composition Open Enclosure, the composer writes: After the work Ausgraben und Erinnern (2006, commissioned by the Miso Music Portugal), – which literally means “dig out and…

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ISCM Young Composer Award

YCA Winners 2002-2024

YCA Winners 2002-2024 The ISCM Young Composer Award has been presented each year since 2002. At every ISCM World New Music Days Festival, an international jury is constituted from the…

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