1933 Amsterdam

From a contemporaneous review “The adoption of English, side by side with Dutch, as the official language of the Festival, was the wisest choice that could have been made. German…

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Klaus Huber (1924-2017)

…concertos by Béla Bartók and Othmar Schoeck), before commencing six years of composition studies there with Willy Burkhard in 1949. Huber subsequently continued his composition studies with Boris Blacher in…

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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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Chien-Wen Cheng: Lotus in the Rain

Chien-Wen CHENG

…2018), winner of the NTSO Composer Commission Competition (Taiwan, 2013); winner of the TMC international Composition Competition (2012);third prize in the 2011 NTSO Orchestral Composition Competition (Taiwan); winner of ICMC…

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Ricordi Lab : Composition Competition

ricordi berlin has announced a brand new programme, ricordilab, that will provide the opportunity for up to five emerging composers to participate in a three-year collaboration with its publishing house….

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Tytti Arola: Touko

Tytti Arola

(Submitted by ISCM – FINNISH SECTION) Tytti Arola (b. 1990) is a composer and sound artist who is interested in bringing daily life to concert venues, doing multisensorial compositions and…

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