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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Call for Works WMD2018 Beijing launched

The ISCM World Music Days 2018 will take place in Beijing China from May 19 to May 26 2018. Beijing Modern Music Festival and ISCM kindly invite composers to submit scores.  According to the “Rules of Procedure for the Organization of the ISCM World Music Days Festival”, submissions should be either official (by ISCM Members) or…

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ISCM World New Music Days 2017 Call for Works – Selected Works

The ISCM World New Music Days 2017 (ISCM 2017) received over 600 submissions to the Call for Works, and is delighted to announce the results. Here’s a link for a full list of selected works, featuring 90 composers from nearly 50 countries:http://iscm2017.us12.list-manage.com/track/click… By June 15, the organisers will contact composers of selected works with more information…

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call for scores ISCM World New Music Days 2017

You are invited to submit scores/project for the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World New Music Days 2017, taking place in Vancouver, Canada from November 2-8, 2017. In the spirit of the ISCM’s embrace of aesthetic diversity, submissions are encouraged in a wide variety of styles, reflecting the plurality of new music today. Submissions…

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THE 2015 ISCM WORLD MUSIC DAYS – Report by Frank J. Oteri

IT’S DIFFICULT TO BE A WORLD SHOWCASE WITH LIMITED RESOURCES: THE 2015 ISCM WORLD MUSIC DAYSBy Frank J. Oteri on October 23, 2015 Before trekking to Ljubljana, Slovenia for the 2015 World Music Days (WMD), the signature annual music festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), I had attended three previous editions of…

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