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| ISCM World New Music Days 2010 |
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30 April - 9 May 2010, Sydney, Australia
 ISCM World New Music Days is a big international festival that focuses on contemporary music and sound art.
It is held annually in different cities around the world, and serves as an important place where composers and audience converge. On that occasion, furthermore, the ISCM according the statutes has its general assembly May, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 (dates are subject to change).
For the first time in the history of this prestigious organization, its showcase of musical excellence, the ISCM World New Music Days, will be held in the Southern Hemisphere: in Sydney, Australia.
 The Aurora Festival
and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music - will present works from each of the 52 ISCM Sections alongside music of the Asia-Pacific region of which Australia is a part. This festival will showcase the latest in musical innovation and expression, vital, engaging and interesting music in all its forms both within and beyond the art music tradition, setting the scene for the next 88 years of artistic excellence.
Selected submissions will be played by Australia's top performers - both established ensembles and emerging artists, within the overall focus on chamber and choral music.
The 2010 Aurora Festival also organize an unique concert of new piano works for which we invite composers from around the world to submit works before December 31st for solo (unamplified) piano!
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| ISCM World Music Days 2009 |
The festival started on 24 September in Visby, then went on to Växjö, and ended October 4 in Gothenburg.
Listen to the World! was the motto of this ISCM World New Music Days and according the statutes also its general assembly took place.
For information and to download the program book: www.listentotheworld.se
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| Featured Composer |
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Diana Rotaru wins the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award 2008
 Diana Rotaru (1981, Romania) received the Prize for Sakti Diana Rotaru (1981, Romania) received the Prize for Shakti concerto for saxophone and orchestra performed on October 27 by Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra during the ISCM-ACL World Music Days 2008 which took place from 24 October till 8 November in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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| World New Music Magazine #19 |
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World New Music Magazine 2009 - Swedish (hi)stories
In connection to the festival Listen to the World! ISCM World New Music Days, ISCM is releasing a new issue of World New Music Magazine, this year with Swedish theme.
In a 160 pages issue, one can read about Swedish minimalism during five decades, electro acoustic music from analogue to laptop, debates on regional music. The Sound Art scene is investigated, women composers' and sound artists' position is discussed, the Swedish historiographic writings on new music is problematised. Read about the present state of orchestral music, independent record labels, text-sound/audio art, radio art, "string theories", improvisation struggling with isolationist past. Extra focus on Gothenburg and the Swedish-Danish region Öresund. World Music Days in rear-view mirror and ideas about the future. Voices from USA, Vietnam, Germany and Finland present their thoughts on contemporary Swedish music, and much more.
World New Music Magazine can be ordered from 10 € + pp.
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You can order at info@iscm.org and pay 10 €, including posting/shipping by using the online payment system PayPal
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| ISCM - VICC |
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Composers in Residence Program
 The ISCM and the VICC - Visby International Centre for Composers (in Visby, Gotland, Sweden) have agreed on an annual co-operation program: the ISCM-VICC Composer in Residence Program. In this program 6 composers per year are offered free accommodation and unrestricted use of an appropriate composing studio at the Centre for a period of 4 weeks. The program is open to composers with a link to the ISCM; applications therefore should be endorsed by an ISCM National Section or a Full Associate Member. The ISCM Executive Committee decides which 6 composers will be awarded a residency. Applications can be sent all through the year at www.centreforcomposers.org
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| New Honorary Members |
 Louis Andriessen was born in Utrecht on June 6, 1939. After an early training in composition with his father, composer Hendrik Andriessen, he continued his studies with Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Receiving the major composition prize upon his graduation, Andriessen subsequently studied two years with Luciano Berio in Milan (1962-'63) and Berlin (1964-'65).
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 Yori-Aki Matsudaira born on 27 March 1931 in Tokyo, Japan, was the President of the Japanese Section from 1998 to 2002. As you may remember, in 2001, he successfully organized the World Music Days in Yokohama, and in the Festival, he was also the chair of the Juries to select the pieces from every sections.
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