Previous festivals

Since 1923, ISCM's annual international new music festival has taken place over 90 times all over the world.

The annual ISCM World (New) Music Days Festival is organized each year by a different host. The festival presents music from each of our members, showcasing the incredible diversity of musical practice in our time. Since 1923 we have had over 90 annual festivals and below is links to all of them with more details.

Annual festivals:

2024 Faroe Islands

2023 South Africa

2022 New Zealand

Shanghai City skyline

2021 Shanghai, Nanning – CANCELLED

2019 Tallinn

2018 Beijing

2017 Vancouver

2016 Tongyeong

2015 Ljubljana

2014 Wrocław

2013 Košice, Bratislava, Vienna

2012 Belgium

2011 Zagreb

2010 Sydney

2009 Sweden

2008 Vilnius

2007 Hong Kong and Macau

2006 Stuttgart

2005 Zagreb

2004 Switzerland

2003 Slovenia

2002 Hong Kong

2001 Yokohama

2000 Luxembourg

1999 Romania and Moldova

1998 Manchester

1997 Seoul

1996 Copenhagen

1995 Essen

1994 Stockholm

1993 Mexico City

1992 Warsaw

1991 Zürich

1990 Oslo

1989 Amsterdam

1988 Hong Kong

1987 Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt

1986 Budapest

1985 Netherlands

1984 Toronto, Montreal

1983 Aarhus

1982 Graz

1981 Brussels, Ghent

1980 Jerusalem

1979 Athens

1978 Stockholm, Helsinki

1977 Bonn

1976 Boston

1975 Paris

1974 Netherlands

1973 Reykjavik

1972 Graz

1971 London

1970 Basel

1969 Hamburg

1968 Warsaw

1967 Prague

1966 Stockholm

1965 Madrid

1964 Copenhagen

1963 Amsterdam

1962 London

1961 Vienna

1960 Cologne

1959 Rome

1958 Strasbourg

1957 Zurich

1956 Stockholm

1955 Baden-Baden

1954 Haifa

1953 Oslo

1952 Salzburg

1951 Frankfurt

1950 Brussels

1949 Palermo, Taormina

1948 Amsterdam, Scheveningen

1947 Copenhagen, Lund

1946 London

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1942 Berkeley, California

1941 New York

1939 Warsaw, Krakow

1938 London

1937 Paris

1936 Barcelona

1935 Prague

1934 Florence

1933 Amsterdam

1932 Vienna

1931 Oxford, London

1930 Liège, Brussels

1929 Geneva

1928 Siena

1927 Frankfurt

1926 Zurich

1925 Prague, Venice

1924 Prague, Salzburg

1923 Salzburg