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| ISCM World Music Days 2009 |
Registration open! deadline 30 July 2009
Listen to the World! is the motto as the ISCM World New Music Days take place this autumn in Sweden.
The festival will start on 24 September in Visby, then go on to Växjö, and end October 4 in Gothenburg.
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 International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) has its general assembly.
In Visby, Växjö and Gothenburg, a generous programme will include orchestral pieces and chamber music, as well as electroacoustic music, and sound art. The aim is to show the variety and diversity of new art-music and to offer the audience opportunities to hear music from many parts of the world. Composers have been asked to submit musical works on the theme Listen to the World! Out of more than 400 entries, a jury has selected 110 pieces from around fifty different nations.
Read the list of selected works, and further info: www.listentotheworld.se
The making of the festival is made possible through a collaboration between Visby Internationella Tonsättarcentrum/Gotlands kommun, CoMA/Musik i Syd, and OPEN/Kultur i Väst/Västra Götalandsregionen, with Concerts Sweden in the role of coordinator.
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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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| 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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| ISCM World Music Days 2008 |
The Lithuanian Composers’ Union, the Vilnius’ Festivals and the Lithuanian Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) organized the ISCM World Music Days / 18th Gaida Festival, from 24 October to 8 November 2008 in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Two focus composers, Jonathan Harvey (GB) and Peter Eötvös (HU), were a part of an international jury selecting works which underline the chosen festival theme “InBetween”, looking at contemporary music as transit zone and middle ground.
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| ISCM World New Music Days 2010 |
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30 April - 9 May 2010, Sydney, Australia
Call for Works published!
Postmark deadline for submissions: 31st of July 2010
For the first time in the history of this prestigious organization, its showcase of musical excellence, the World New Music Days, will be held in the Southern Hemisphere: in Sydney, Australia.
It is fitting that the 2010 World New Music Days takes place in the New World. Australia is both a very young and very old country. Its indigenous settlers are estimated to have arrived at least 40,000 years ago, while European settlement only commenced in 1788. Sydney is an international city with a diverse, multicultural population of at least 4 million people.
Music should both reflect and shape the diversity of culture and artistic practice in the world. The 2010 World New Music Days is searching for vital, engaging and interesting music in all its forms both within and beyond the art music tradition.
The 2010 ISCM World New Music Days presenters -  the Aurora Festival
and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music - will present works from each of the 52 ISCM Member 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, 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.
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| World New Music Magazine #18 |
 This edition is edited by Andreas Engström and Ruta Staneviciute and contains 120 pages and a CD with 21st Century Lithuanian Music with works by Raminta Serksnyte, Marius Baranauskas, Vytautas V. Jurgutis, Juste Janulyte, etc
toppics:
– Lithuanian Music during one Century: Between National Identity and Musical Modernity, - The Formation of a Lithuanian Musical Scene before and after Independence, - Fluxus and Experimental Music in Lithuania, from the 1960s to the 1980s, - Electronic Music in Lithuania: an Outward Explosion, - The Social Roles of Lithuanian Women Composers, - Lithuanian Music from the Outside Perspective, – Into Europe:the Early History of the ISCM Lithuanian Section
Read more.. or go to info@iscm.org to order for 9 €, incl p+p.
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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. For information about the VICC please look at www.centreforcomposers.org
Click here to download the form or go to for assistance..
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