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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) are proud to announce the ISCM World Music Days / 18th Gaida Festival, from 24 October to 8 November 2008 in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
This will be the first large-scale international new music gathering in the Baltic Region, and the first ISCM World Music Days in this part of Europe.
The festival has invited composers from all over the world to submit works for this occasion. Two focus composers, Jonathan Harvey (GB) and Peter Eötvös (HU), was 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.
The work of the focus composers will be featured throughout the festival, with the continental premiere of Of Love and Other Demons, a new large-scale opera by Eötvös, in collaboration with the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and the renowned Glyndebourne Opera Festival, and the world premiere of a new work by Harvey for cello octet.
Read a large press release in English
and shorter in French, German and Russian about the festival
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| Featured Composer |
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Nicholas Casswell wins the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award 2007
 Nicholas Casswell (1974, UK) received the Prize for Triplicity performed on November 28 by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta conducted by Marcel Wengler during the ISCM-ACL World Music Days 2007 which took place from 22nd November to 2nd December in Hong Kong.
Read more..
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| ISCM-Ensemble 2008 |
For the year 2008 the ISCM Ensemble in Residence will be the Cantus Ensemble from Croatia. The ensemble specialising in 20th and 21st century music, was founded in 2001 and performs works by Croatian and foreign composers and has state support and hope to do many concerts and tours in 2008 and later.
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| ISCM-ACL World Music Days |
The 2007 ISCM-ACL World Music Days Festival took place from 22 November to 1 December 2007 and put together the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and the Asian Composers League (ACL) in Hong Kong for a 10-day mega event.
For the 6th time the ISCM Young Composer Award was presented to a selected composer under 35 whose work was featured during these ISCM World Music Days.
Also a symposium took place that explored the notion of musical canons in the 21st century in the context of historiography, reception, hermeneutics, cultural identity, aesthetics, and cross-cultural studies.
You are invited to read a REPORT by C. A. Lignos
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| ISCM World Music Days 2009 |
The 2009 edition of ISCM World New Music Days will be held in Sweden between September 24 and October 4. The festival will move through three cities, each with a strong contemporary music profile. The first part will be in medieval Visby on Gotland, the meeting place in the Baltic Sea, the second one in Växjö and the Kingdom of Glass and the last one in Sweden’s gateway to the western seas and the Continent, namely Göteborg.
The artistic theme for the 2009 festival is Listen to the World !
The 2009 festival seeks to establish a new position for art music, one as pioneer not only in music, but also in terms of taking responsibility for our world and its development. In contrast to the fact that its artistic quality and expressive breadth have expanded in all directions, contemporary art music has, generally, failed to make itself a part of the cultural and political discourses. We are convinced that this can change. Art music can assume a more prominent position in societal and cultural development.
deadline for entering has passed already!
information: www.listentotheworld.se
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| Doming Lam honorary member |
 Doming Lam (Hong Kong) elected as honorary member of the ISCM.
Doming Lam, composer, teacher and contemporary music promoter has made many significant contributions to the development of contemporary in Hong Kong, China and many parts of Asia through years of hard work and dedication. Born in Macau in 1926, he has studied music at the University of Toronto, and later under Mikros Rozsa at the University of Southern California where he and his student team obtained many awards in film music composition under the Maestro's guidance.
read more....
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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
Here you can read a report by Piet-Jan van Rossum who visited Visby in January 2008.
Click here to download the form or go to for assistance..
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