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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 and much more. Read more..
    and can be ordered and paid here for 10 € + pp.
  • Arne Nordheim Arne Nordheim dies at 78.
    Norway’s foremost contemporary composer and honorary member of the ISCM, born 20th of June 1931, passed on Sat June 5th 2010.
    His ability to write truly contemporary music, even at a late stage in his career -music that prevails in terms of audacity and profound originality- is evidence of a unique artistic mind. read more..
    foto: MIC Norway/Lisbeth Risnes
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  • 'Living Music', the first time in the 88-year history of the ISCM that the prestigious event was held in the southern hemisphere. www.worldnewmusicdays.com.au informs on the festival as well as all past and latest e-newsletters.
    www.abc.net.au/classic/iscm2010 is ABC Classic FM gateway to the 2010 ISCM World New Music Days where you'll find recordings of music from the festival plus photos, video and the 24-hour festival station till 30 May.
  • 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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  • Diana Rotaru (1981, Romania)wins the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award 2008 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.
  • Reports on the ISCM WMD 2006 Stuttgart,Germany; "A successful mega event - but as an ISCM festival there is room for improvement" Read more..
  • and "The ISCM died last week at 90 (actually 85) - and then began to slowly rise from its ashes" Read more..
  • ISCM Young Composer Award 2007 for an outstanding composer under 35 whose work is being featured in the ISCM World Music Days 2007. Eligible composers for the 2007 ISCM Young Composer Award are: Read more..
  • The 16th edition of the World New Music Magazine of the ISCM as pdf Click here to download the pdf of 700KB
  • Insomnio Ensemble will be the ISCM Ensemble in 2007. Read more..
  • "Freedom of Sound" Festival for Contemporary Music, April 9-14, 2007, Russia at the halls of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. Read more..
  • Happy Days Sound Festival 2007, April 12-14 in Oslo, Norway; "Contemporary Music for the people" is the festival slogan. Read more..

  • 24th Music Biennale Zagreb 2007, April 19 - 28, Zagreb, Croatia Read more..

  • Netherlands Section of the ISCM announces the Jury Results of the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007. Read more..
  • The Contemporary Music Forum is a new music ensemble based at the Corcoran Gallery Of Art in Washington, DC Read more..
  • The 2007 New Music Miami Iscm Festival of contemporary cutting edge music continues to build on the success of previous festivals and will focus on music for winds and percussion Read more..
  • ISCM Mexican Section: Our activities are divided i three principal branchs: Read more..
  • the 8th Música Viva Electro-acoustic Composition Competition 2007 as part of the International Festival of Electro-acoustic Music - MÚSICA VIVA Read more..
  • There has been a considerable change in the organizational personnel of the South African ISCM section in the past year Read more..
  • Two Days and Two Nights of New Music A specific feature of the Festival is 48 hour non-stop action (more exactly two 12 hour sessions) on the 3rd weekend of April from 20 to 22 April. Read more..

  • ISCM Britain is currently developing a Visiting Composer project to bring an international composer to the UK on a short visit. Read more..

  • The Union of Bulgarian Composers as a National Section of ISCM will organize 4 Chamber Concerts with works by Norwegian, Ukrainian and US composers. Read more..
  • The SIMC organizes every year a "Young Composer's Forum" , in order to help young composers and interprets. Read more..
  • The Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music announces its 6th International Composition Prize for the year 2007. Composers from all over the world are invited Read more..
    and Concert serie by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta Read more..
  • ISCM World Music Days 2009.
    Theme of the festival in Sweden is “Listen to the world”. Contextual music is expected to be entered, short works preferably. The works will be curated rather than selected by a jury. 3 regions are involved, each with their own focus and curators. In Visby the focus is vocal music and wind music, in Växjö the focus is chamber music and electronic music, in Gothenburg the focus is cross over (world-around perspective). Main organizations are VICC, COMA and OPEN. The whole festival is scheduled 24 September to 5 October 2009.

  • The 16th edition of the World New Music Magazine of the ISCM as pdf Click here to download the pdf of 600 KB
  • Results of the jury selection of the European Live Electronics Competition.
    Out of 29 entries the jury has selected the following 6 proposals Read more..
  • I spent 5 weeks at the VICC, Visby International Centre for Composers from beginning of December. It was a very productive period. Read more..
  • In the series "Texte und Dokumente zur neuen Musik" Pfau Verlag has recently published a volume with two long conversations between Reinhard Oehlschlägel and Matthias Spahlinger. Read more..
  • Insomnio Ensemble will be the ISCM Ensemble in 2007. Read more..
  • The "Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte" (Association of Latin American Composers of Art Music) was founded on March 12th 1999 on the grounds of a Manifesto Read more..
  • call for scores to be considered for the New Music Miami ISCM Festival being held April 2008 and for consideration as part of FIU's NODUS ensemble's 2007-2008 concert series. Read more..
  • The ISCM died last week at 90 (actually 85) - and then began to slowly rise from its ashes The title for this ISCM Festival report in addition to being an allusion... Read more..
  • The Edison Denisov International Young Composers Competition
    The competition is dedicated to the memory of Edison Denisov, the outstanding modern composer, the founder of the new Russian composers school. Read more..
  • The "Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte" (Association of Latin American Composers of Art Music) was founded on March 12th 1999 on the grounds of a Manifesto Read more..
  • Danish percussionist Reumert wins the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2007 open to musicians up to 35 years of age which took place in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) from 15 to 22 April 2007 Read more..
  • "Freedom of Sound" Festival for Contemporary Music, April 9-14, 2007, Russia at the halls of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. Read more..
  • Happy Days Sound Festival 2007, April 12-14 in Oslo, Norway; "Contemporary Music for the people" is the festival slogan. Read more..

  • 24th Music Biennale Zagreb 2007, April 19 - 28, Zagreb, Croatia Read more..

  • Results of the jury selection of the European Live Electronics Competition.
    Out of 29 entries the jury has selected the following 6 proposals Read more..
  • I spent 5 weeks at the VICC, Visby International Centre for Composers from beginning of December. It was a very productive period. Read more..
  • In the series "Texte und Dokumente zur neuen Musik" Pfau Verlag has recently published a volume with two long conversations between Reinhard Oehlschlägel and Matthias Spahlinger. Read more..
  • The Contemporary Music Forum is a new music ensemble based at the Corcoran Gallery Of Art in Washington, DC Read more..
  • The 2007 New Music Miami Iscm Festival of contemporary cutting edge music continues to build on the success of previous festivals and will focus on music for winds and percussion Read more..
  • ISCM Mexican Section: Our activities are divided i three principal branchs: Read more..
  • the 8th Música Viva Electro-acoustic Composition Competition 2007 as part of the International Festival of Electro-acoustic Music - MÚSICA VIVA Read more..
  • There has been a considerable change in the organizational personnel of the South African ISCM section in the past year Read more..
  • Two Days and Two Nights of New Music A specific feature of the Festival is 48 hour non-stop action (more exactly two 12 hour sessions) on the 3rd weekend of April from 20 to 22 April. Read more..

  • The Union of Bulgarian Composers as a National Section of ISCM will organize 4 Chamber Concerts with works by Norwegian, Ukrainian and US composers. Read more..
  • Società Italiana di Musica Contemporanea organize an International Composing Competition, dedicated to Chamber Musical Theatre "MINIMUSICDRAMA 2008" Read more..
  • The SIMC organizes every year a "Young Composer's Forum" , in order to help young composers and interprets. Read more..
  • The Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music announces its 6th International Composition Prize for the year 2007. Composers from all over the world are invited Read more..
    and Concert serie by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta Read more..
  • Meridian, 2nd ISCM-Romanian Section International Festival, Bucuresti, 9-13 decembrie 2006; besides important concerts also lectures on contemporary music in Brazil by Harry Crowl, Greece by Leontios Hadjileontiadis, U.S.A. by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, and Bulgaria by Velislav Zaimov. Read more..
  • The 4th Sun River Student Composition Competition Chengdu, PR China, 2007 Aim of the Composition: New Talent New Idea, New Composition New Music All students (without restrictions on nationalities regions and ages) can enter
    Deadline: March 31, 2007 Read more..
  • A selection of the papers presented at NewMusicSA's first Unyazi Electronic Music Festival (2005) have been published in the Leonardo Music Journal 2006 Read more..
  • Sala Manuel M. Ponce, Palacio De Bellas Artes; Presentation of our fourth CD. Mexican music for brass quintet Read more..
  • LITHUANIAN MUSIC LINK no. 13 News Stories and Features, October 2006 / March 2007 Read more..
  • ISCM- Austrian Section - Activities of the Members, November 2006 Read more..
  • Centre for Contemporary Music (Moscow) and Studio for New Music ensemble in the 1st half of 2007. One of the main events of the period will be the 4th Jurgenson Competition for young musicians Read more..
  • The Japan Federation of Composers (JFC, associate organization of ISCM) News from JFC, season 2006-07 Read more..
  • Bernhard Wulf presented the Mongolian New Music Association, which applied for membership as a National Section and was unanimously accepted. The Association organizes educational activities, an annual festival “Roaring Hooves” (in the Goby desert) and is part of a network of central Asian countries.
  • "Grenzenlos/without borders" 14 - 29 July 2006, Stuttgart, Germany
    With its more than 70 events, the 16-day-festival presented around 200 composers from more than 50 countries - from short contributions to full-length programmes. For info go to: www.wnmf2006.de

  • Peter Swinnen and Luc Vaes gave a presentation about ISCM Flanders
  • Ludmilla Yurina presented the Kiev Branch of the Composers Union of Ukraine and was accepted by the Executive Committee as a new Full Associate Member of the ISCM and warmly welcomed by the assembly.

    • The Union of Composers of Bulgaria applied for membership as a National Section and the General Assembly then unanimously accepted. The former member of the ISCM was the Bulgarian Contemporary Music Society, whose membership ended in 2005. The UCB is a different organization which has been active for many years.
  • The British composer Barnaby Hollington won the first prize in the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2006, New release by Editions-LGNM and the concert Classics of the 20th Century at Philharmonie - Luxembourg24 November 2006 - 8 pm Read more..
  • Call for Papers for a Symposium during the 2007 ISCM-ACL World Music Days, Hong Kong, which seeks to explore the notion of musical canons in the 21st century in the context of historiography, reception, hermeneutics, cultural identity, aesthetics, and cross-cultural studies. Read more..
  • ISCM Netherlands: But there's more to it than meets the eye and music lovers who want to know more about live electronics are very welcome at the Gaudeamus Live Electronics Festival, to be held at the 'Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ' in Amsterdam this coming November. Read more..
  • The first ISCM day in Flanders will take place on Thursday 16 November in Ghent (Bijloke) This day is a perfect opportunity Read more..
  • IGNM Night of Salzburgs’ Composers Friday, November 3, 20h to 1h morning, Mozarteum- University, Hall -Solitaer- Read more..
  • JSCM (ISCM Japanese Section) holds a usual concert series Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2006, from 21st October to 3rd December in Tokyo. Under the title of "Texturing the Future", this exhibition consists of concerts, competitions, workshops mainly for young generation. Read more..
  • After the very successful introductory issue of the EMC magazine "Sounds in Europe" the EMC is currently preparing the second issue - Call for Articles: Deadline 20 November 2006. Read more..
  • "Drau/Drava - Old River, New Sounds" addresses the challenge of overcoming the most varied borders and barriers and contributing to community, to achieve mutual respect and integration in a fragmented Europe. Read more..
  • 2006 International Rostrum of Composers selects in the General Category Arnulf Herrman (Germany) Terzenseele Read more..
  • Report on the ISCM WMD/Music Biennale Zagreb by Andreas Engström The discussion concerning representation versus artistic concept has been going on Read more..
  • ISCM/CASH Young Composer Award is a joint project of the ISCM and the Composers and Authors Society Hong Kong. Read more..
  • Call for scores and conference papers, The Asia Pacific Festival, the 26th Asian Composers League Festival & Conference, will take place between 8 - 16 February 2007 in Wellington, New Zealand. Read more..
  • Deadline extended until 1st of November 2006 for the European competition for the composition and interpretation of live-electronic music projects by the ECPNM. Read more..
  • Ensemble Antipodes has secured commissions for Junghae Lee (Korea), Yosvany Quintero (Cuba), Suren Soronzonbold (Mongolia) and Jeroen Speak (New Zealand). Read more..
  • L'Univers d'Edison Denisov This is an international festival dedicated to Edison Denisov. It will take place at the best Moscow concert halls and will present the music by friends of Denisov, his pupils and his followers. The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia will present the symphonic works by Boulez, Dutilleux, Xenakis and Denisov in the Great hall of the Moscow conservatory! Read more..
  • The Miami ISCM Chapter received over 200 scores from more than 120 composers from different parts of the world for the 2006 NODUS/New Music Miami Festival competition. Read more..
  • InterAct 2006, 22nd - 27th August 2006: six composers/sound artist & six visual artists exploring the interaction between their art forms. Read more..
  • 2006 Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Award; To inspire international composers to fuse authentic Oriental cultural elements to compose music that possesses ethnic values General Regulations
  • New Times. New Paradigms? In approximately the last eight years, young Latvian composers have created quite a few works that have been inspired by post-war Western avant-garde tendencies.Read more..
  • 39th Baltic Musicological Conference "The 20th Century and the Phenomenon of Personality in Music", October 7 to 12, 2006 in Riga, Latvia Read more..
  • ISCM Portuguese Section organize the 7th Electroacoustic MÚSICA VIVA Composition Competition, deadline 30 June 2006 Read more..
  • 38TH International Encuentros Festival 2006, August 21 st - September 4 th. and 1st. National Piano Competition "Alberto Ginastera" August 31st , September 1st and 2nd 2006 Read more..
  • Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble presents works by Alexander Mossolov, Edison Denisov, Yuri Kasparov, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Anton Safronov, Dmitri Kourliandski, Sergei Newski, Boris Filanovski, Elena Langer, Maria Boulgakova (Russia), Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (Uzbekistan), Jamilia Jazylbekova (Kazakhstan), Victoria Polevaya (Ukraine), etc.
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  • Another Happy Day” is Ny Musikk’s annual summer party in collaboration with Black Box Theatre, Young Artists’ Society and Henie Onstad Art Center Read more..
  • International Composition Prize Luxembourg The selected compositions will be performed on Saturday, the 14th October 2006 Read more..
  • Results of the Kazimierz Serocki 10th International Composers’ Competition 2006 with First Prize for Hiroshi Nakamura (Japan) Read more..
  • International public organization, Ukrainian section of the International Society for Contemporary Music/ISCM Principal task of the ANM is thorough support all artists involved in the innovative trends Read more..
  • Lithuanian Muisclit Link no. 12 - News stories and features Read more..
  • ISCM Mexican Section Projects: a.o. Concerts at Casa Grande and a presentation of three new CD with mexican music Read more..
  • ISCM South Africa's new excom; My two terms of office as president have ended and our vice-president Read more..
  • The School of Music, Florida International University
  • ISCM-Romanian National Section Festival between 18 and 21 December 2005, entitled ‘ZILELE SNR-SIMC’ (1st ‘Days of the Romanian Section of ISCM’)
  • AIC/Mostly Modern International Composition Competition 2006 Read more..
  • Report on the ISCM WMD/Music Biennale Zagreb by Andreas Engström The discussioirishnewsn concerning representation versus artistic concept has been going on Read more..
  • Jauna Muzika Vilnius, 15-22 April 2006, the biggest international electronic and electroacoustic music festival in Lithuania and Baltic States
  • The annual International Festival of Modern Art “Two Days and Two Nights of New Music” in Odessa, 21-23 April 2006, now is one of the most large Read more..
  • SPOR Festival 2006 Legible Hearings 4-7 May 2006. According to John Cage sound becomes music on its being heard specifically as sound and not as a signal Read more..
  • 2nd Contemporary Wednesdays, 1 Apr 2006 - 30 May 2006 in cooperation with the Experimental Studio at the Slovak Radio Read more..
  • Miso Music Portugal is now calling for partners who whish to program Circuits in 2006 and 2007 and news about the 7th Música Viva Electroacoustic Composition Competition with a deadline 30 June 2006 Read more..
  • Days of Dutch Culture, 15 - 25 May 2006, Russia.
  • 5th International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2006 invites composers from all over the world - without age limitation. Deadline for entries is 1st March 2006 Read more..
  • 2nd PRE-ART competition for composition 2005/2006. The aim consists in finding young composers in order to promote them in an international context. Read more..
  • Concerts organised by Musik der Jahrhunderte with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Israel Contemporary Players, Nicolas Hodges, piano and Hans-Peter Jahn with a lecture Read more..
  • AIC/Mostly Modern International Composition Competition 2005 was won by Yoshikazu Kumagai Read more..
  • International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2005. The Spanish composer Cristina Pascual won the first prize with her work Magnetism Cristina. Read more..
  • Salzburg 2005 Music Festival Read more..
  • 3rd Mediterranean Contemporary Music Days Read more..
  • General Assembly of the Romanian Section Read more..
  • ISCM Serbia/Montenegro Section projects Read more..
  • ISCM / CASH Young Composer Award 2004 Read more..
  • VII International festival "Europe - Asia", World music Days in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. Read more..
  • 2005 NEW MUSIC MIAMI ISCM FESTIVAL. Read more..
  • ISCM World Music Days 2005 in Croatia. Read more..
  • Reinhard Oehlschlägel honorary member of the ISCM Read more..

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