ISCM World New Music Days 2020 Postponed

ANNOUNCEMENT – 16 March 2020 With much sadness, I must announce that the double festival of ISCM World New Music Days and Asian Composers League Festival cannot take place in 2020. We were very much looking forward to presenting this ambitious double festival for the first time in Aotearoa New Zealand. This difficult decision has…

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BREAKING NEWS Re ISCM WNMD 2020

Due to travel restrictions and other measures that are evolving very quickly on a global scale, we are aware that most international visitors to New Zealand will be unable to travel to the ISCM2020 World New Music Days / Asian Composers League 2020 Festival. We are working through the implications with the Executive Committees of…

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Ensemble Windstreken & Ruben Zahra

Ensemble Windstreken & Ruben Zahra The Dutch Ensemble Windstreken makes musical connections between very diverse music styles. It combines jazz and improvisation with medieval and contemporary classical music, Indian and North African music. Its main purpose is to discover surprising blends of sounds. The ensemble was founded by flutist/saxophonist Pieter van de Mast in 2004.…

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