Nicole Murphy: Spinning Top

Nicole Murphy

…a Composer Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s ‘Intimacy of Creativity’ program (2018) and a Resident Composer at the Mizzou International Composers Festival (2019). Her piano…

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Doina Rotaru: Vivarta

Doina Rotaru

…with alterations in expression and sonorous substance, with frequent heterophonic multiplications and influences from Romanian archaic music, structured on the circular model of the spiral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2gc4yIb29w Doina Rotaru: Vivarta performed…

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2001 Yokohama

…generic complex in which we were based (hotel, concert halls, meeting room, plus all the shops one could possibly need) made it feel as if one could have been anywhere…

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1984 Toronto, Montreal

From contemporaneous reviews: “Although the I.S.C.M. was a truly wide-ranging forum for the new in the 1920’s, it has not always maintained a comparable freshness or ecumenicalism. Certainly in the…

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1929 Geneva

…sees a phalanx of young composers whose names are made and who will in turn make way for composers unknown to-day.” — Edwin Evans, “Geneva Festival,” The Musical Times, Vol….

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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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1991 Zürich

…national sections, and Western European traditions, from which ISCM membership has been traditionally drawn. Attempts to solicit music from composers outside that circle–from China or the then-Soviet-Union, for example–were not…

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Ultrasound Berlin

…premieres, new trends, new artistic constellations. In addition, however, the festival also offers a historical perspective on rediscoveries, their relevance is re-examined in a new, current-voltage field … read more……

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2014/09/10-09/20 Ultima 2014

…academic and public lectures, musical analysis, study workshops and film screenings in parallel with Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Ultima Academy 2014 will examine how national identities have been constructed…

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