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• New address ISCM Secretariat from June 18, 2012. The ISCM executive committee has accepted the generous offer of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek to house the ISCM secretariat. Gaudeamus Muziekweek is also the Netherlands Section of the ISCM. Since 2008 our secretariat was based in Amsterdam at the office of Music Center the Netherlands (MCN), which unfortunately has to close its doors soon due to the loss of financial support by the Dutch government.
  New address:
  International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)
  c/o Gaudeamus Muziekweek
  Loevenhoutsedijk 301
  3552 XE Utrecht
  The Netherlands
  Tel: +31-6-29069173
  info@iscm.org
  www.iscm.org
  
  
• Report on the ISCM World Music Days 2012 in Belgium by John McLachlan; I attended the World Music Days 2012 in Flanders and Wallonia-known as Belgium to everyone except the Belgians-between the dates 26th and 31st October inclusive. This means that it is just an account of one person's visit, and leaves out 5 days from before and after. My comments will surely therefore fail to cover some wonderful work or other, and I hope other reports catch those. This report takes the form of a chronicle alternating 'subjective' and 'objective' memories......Read more
• 2013/07/01 is the deadline for The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards a.o to the creation, performance and conducting of the classical music of our time Candidates shall be one or more natural persons of any nationality, without limitation of number. Nominations can be made by institutions and organizations working in the knowledge areas covered in each category ....read more

The ISCM World Music Days 2012, took place from October 25 to November 4, and was a travelling festival, spread over ten days, visiting six cities: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Leuven and Mons. ISCM-Flanders aims to be a platform for everyone who is professionally active in the field of contemporary art music in Flanders.
The Forum des Compositeurs is Associate Member of the ISCM and promote contemporary music in the Frenchspeaking Community Wallonia - Brussels.
ISCM Flanders made a radio spot together with Klara to promote the festival. Come and dive into new music! free your ears!

The ECPNM – European Conference of Promoters of New Music hosts the fifth European competition for proposals of composition and interpretation of live-electronic music projects that demonstrate in an innovative way new possibilities for the combination of instruments and live-electronics as well as innovative use of live-electronics with the composer as a performer. 2nd Category is for works involving double-bass or electric bass guitar and live-electronics, to be performed by John Eckhardt Two projects in each category will be premiered at a final concert during the ISCM World New Music Days 2012 on 3 or 4 November at De Singel in Antwerp, Belgium....read more

Deadline for the ISCM World New Music Days 2013 was december 31st, 2011. Košice (Eastern Slovakia), Bratislava and Vienna will organize a variety of concerts featuring works for chamber choir, recorders and electronics, symphony orchestra pieces, sound installations, compositions for solo instruments, ensembles, and more. ISCM members and individual composers all around the world are invited to take part! Visit the festival website.

The winner of the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award 2011 is Chiu-Yu Chou (Taiwan) for her String Quartet nr. 1., performed by the 'Song String Quartet' on the 13th of April. ...Read more

Milton Babbitt and Joji Yuasa are elected Honorary Member of the ISCM
The compositional and intellectual wisdom of Milton Babbitt, born in 1916 in Philadelphia, has influenced a wide range of contemporary musicians. He died on January 29th of 2011 at the age of 94. One can read more on New Music Box.
Joji Yuasa (1929 in Koriyama, Japan) was from 1981 through 1994 actively engaged in music research and education at the University of California, San Diego. Read more...

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2011-2012

festivals
composers' competitions
interpreters' competitions
workshops
competitions' results

festivals

• 2013/06/01-06/26 Holland Festival 2013 Audi offers the public a ‘kaleidoscopic window on the world’. Music theatre and music are at the heart of the programme, with Western and non-Western art forms going hand in hand. Besides the performing arts (theatre, music theatre, dance, opera and music) there is plenty of room for the visual arts, literature and architecture. All aspects, colours and flavours of aesthetics are given attention and elbow room. ....read more

• 2013/06/05-06/08 Only Connect, Festival of Sound 2013, Machine Dreams with screenings, talks and performance, the festival will explore the dreams of machines. With the music of Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Blom, Aura Satz, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Dave Tompkins, Stefan Goldmann, Pinquins and more. ....read more

• 2013/06/17-06/29 This 2nd annual New Music Festival held in Charlotte, NC, is the only event of its kind in the region and is one of only a few places of summer study that composers, musicians, and and even dancers can attend in the country ....read more

• 2013/06/17-06/26 IFCP is a 10-day long institute and festival bringing together internationally renowned artists and gifted students who are interested in expanding their knowledge and performance practice of 20th & 21st century music. ....read more

• 2013/06/25-06/28 Daegu Contemporary Music Festival is an international music festival for Korean and international composers. It aims to draw consensus from the composers around the world for the creation of new music and to offer the composers to sharing and leading contemporary ideas. ....read more

• 2013/07/12-07/14 the International Music Festival EURORITM wich will take place in Romania, Gura Humorului. ....read more

• 2013/07/15-08/04 the Bang on a Can Summer Festival- a residency for innovative composers and performers of contemporary music at one of the foremost US contemporary art museums, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art). ....read more

• 2013/09/01-09/08 International Gaudeamus Musicweek 2013: Thirteen compositions have been shortlisted for the Gaudeamus Prize 2013. Over 200 composers under the age of 30, hailing from 29 different countries, entered a composition in hopes of winning this much sought-after award. Now the jury, consisting of Peter Adriaansz (NL), Annelies van Parys (BE), and Dmitri Kourliandski (RU) has made its selection. At the end of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2013 it will determine the winner of the Gaudeamus Prize. All nominated works will be performed during Gaudeamus Muziekweek which runs from 1 through 8 September 2013 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ....read more

• 2013/11/07-11/16 ISCM World New Music Days 2013. Košice (Eastern Slovakia), Bratislava and Vienna will organize a variety of concerts featuring works for chamber choir, recorders and electronics, symphony orchestra pieces, sound installations, compositions for solo instruments, ensembles, and more. ISCM members and individual composers all around the world are invited to take part! ....read more

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international composers competitions in order of deadline

• 2013/06/14 International Composition Competition "… a Camillo Togni". The competition is open to musicians of all nationalities, with no age restrictions. It will be completed by December 2013 and will end with a public concert at which the final scores will be performed by dèdalo ensemble ( www.dedaloensemble.it ). The concert will be followed by the prize-giving ceremony ....read more

• 2013/06/15 22nd International Review of Composers; Step Into The Unusual Belgrade, November 8-12, 2013 by the Serbian Composers Association for following categories: a) analogue synthesizer duo; b) accordion solo, duo or trio (only concert accordions are accepted); c) guitar duo or trio (acoustic guitars only); d) 2 violins, 2 violas, violoncello, double bass, 2 flutes and 2 clarinets (any combination of 2-6 instruments from the list); e) recorder (versions: garklein, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, basset and bass), oboe, harp, violin, violoncello, trumpet, accordion (any combination of 2-5 instruments from the list). Within this category, the use of electronics is allowed ....read more

• 2013/06/16 The Nineteenth Edition of the "2 Agosto” International Composing to write a full score for solo voice and symphony orchestra, choosing freely lyrics inspired by peace and solidarity themes. Sections of the work could be also realized through high definition digital audio media (.aiff or .wav files). ....read more

• 2013/06/21 the Conlon Foundation is announcing the 2nd Conlon Music Prize for Disklavier Plus for Yamaha Disklavier. The prize of the competition will consist of a performance in the prestigious 2013 Gaudeamus Music Week in the Netherlands ....read more

• 2013/06/23 The Music Gardens Foundation would like to invite students and young composers to participate in the International Summer Course for Composers SYNTHETIS, which will take place in Radziejowice Palace (located in Poland, 50 km from Warsaw) between 13 - 28 of August 2013. The main theme of this year's course is computer technology in music. Lecturers: Miguel Azguime, Cezary Duchnowski, Zugmunt Krauze, Mauro Lanza, Mauricio Sotelo, Frances-Marie Uitti, Chen Yi and Agata Zubel. ....read more

• 2013/06/30 International Composition Competition for youth orchestra "Bruno Maderna" 2013 - Third Edition, Duration: between 8' and 12', Total prizes amount: 2000 Euro, Performance of selected pieces, Publication of the selected scores by Edizioni Sconfinarte ....read more

• 2013/07/01 The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge and Culture Awards, whose fifth edition is now open, seek to recognize and encourage world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of broad impact for their originality and theoretical significance. ....read more

• 2013/07/13 Chai Found Music Workshop/Sizhu Music Composition Contest 2012. Composers are invited to submit innovative works amalgamating the best of East and West for Sizhu music ensemble. ....read more

• 2013/07/31 XVI edition of the International Composition Competition "Franco Evangelisti” is dedicated to Female Voice, Percussion and electronics, and is open to composers of any nationality and age. The female voice (mezzo-soprano) part can be written for singing or recitation or both ....read more

• 2013/07/31 the 11th International Composition Competition "Romualdo Marenco” competition for band composition, with a competition reserved to the composition di un'opera originale per strumenti a percussione, per 1 (uno) esecutore....read more

• 2013/08/15 Kazimierz Serocki 13th International Composers’ Competition 2013 for chamber ensemble of 3 to 5 instruments, without conductor, use of tape allowed, Instruments: 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, percussion (1 performer), 1 piano, 1 accordion, 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello; Use live electronics is not permitted. Duration: from 10 to 16 minutes ....read more

• 2013/08/15 Iowa State University Department of Music is proud to announce the Carillon Composition Competition 2013 as a part of the Carillon Festival to be held on September 21, 2013 The submitted work shall be an original composition for four-octave carillon (tenor C to C4), with two-octave pedal board (C-C2). The composition may be a solo, a duet for one carillon or a work for carillon with one or more other instrument or chorus ....read more

• 2013/08/20 The Orchestre national d’Île-de-France organizes its second edition of composition competition “Île de créations” in partnership with Radio France – France Musique, Musique Nouvelle en Liberté, Durand-Salabert-Eschig publishing editions and SACEM. ....read more

• 2013/08/20 Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award The competition is open for composers of all nationalities in the following fields: composition, instrument/voice and chamber music. Creating a piece for children's choir. ....read more

• 2013/08/31 The 1st International Composers' Competition WINDSTREAM 2014 will take place in frames of the Spring Festival WINDSTREAM and will be organized by the RIGA Professional Symphonic Band in collaboration with the Riga 2014 Foundation Composers are encouraged to create compositions for symphonic wind band ensemble setups corresponding to the setup of RIGA Professional Symphonic Band, thematically linking these compositions with the music of composer Johann Sebastian Bach ....read more

• 2013/09/30 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2014 for orchestra in any format except concerto, within the following instrumentation and to be performed with one conductor. Scores that have been published, performed in public concert or commercially recorded are not eligible. ....read more

• 2013/09/30 the first International Composition Competition for a "Monodramma". can be a short chamber opera, a melologo, a Singspiel, an operetta, a poem open to composers from any nationality, without age limit. Compositions, between 5 and 20 minutes, must be written for the ensemble "Ned Ensemble" utilizing from 3 to 7 musicians ....read more

• 2012/10/12 SIMC – Italian Society for Contemporary Music announces the International Composition Competition Vittorio Fellegara. The 2013 competition is devoted to compositions for flute and guitar or flute and harp (only category). No form of amplification or live electronics is allowed. ....read more

• 2013/10/15 12th Composition Competition of the Fribourg International Festival of Sacred Music (Switzerland) has been launched ! The submitted composition must be exclusively for a wind ensemble comprising 24 instrumentalists and adhering to the exact instrumentation used in "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" (1947 version) or comprising a minimum of 12 instrumentalists and reprising the exact instrumentation used in "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" (1947 version) by Igor Stravinsky. ....read more

• 2013/11/13 XXIX Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale per Banda Edizione 2013 ....read more

• 2013/12/01 Arizona Pro Arte announces their 2013-2014 “Call for Scores” project. Submissions may consist of any combination of the following: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani plus 1 auxiliary percussionist, and strings (6/6/4/4/2). ....read more

• 2013/12/01 Dutch Harp Festival 2014: Storytelling — The third international Dutch Harp Festival will be held from February 26 until March 2, 2014. The theme of the festival is Storytelling, acknowledging and featuring the harpist's original task as storyteller and news bringer. ....read more

• 2013/12/02 III International Uuno Klami Composition Competition. The works shortlisted for the finals will be performed by the Kymi Sinfonietta, one of the topmost Finnish orchestras, at two finals concerts, to be held in the cities of Kouvola and Kotka in autumn 2014. ....read more

• 2013/12/31 Variations on the Theme of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for Piano - International Edition, compiled and edited by Julian Yu [the Editor], who is coordinating this call for scores. The variations will contain a multitude of examples on different points of composition, providing a rich repertoire for piano teaching, performance and sight reading and also for general appreciation. From the entries received, 100 will be selected for publication. ....read more

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interpreters' competitions in order of deadline

• 2013/05/15 Ticino Musica is an international meeting of young professional musicians coming from all around the world. ....read more

workshops

• 2013/06/17-06/26 IFCP is a 10-day long institute and festival bringing together internationally renowned artists and gifted students who are interested in expanding their knowledge and performance practice of 20th & 21st century music. ....read more

• 2013/06/23 The Music Gardens Foundation would like to invite students and young composers to participate in the International Summer Course for Composers SYNTHETIS, which will take place in Radziejowice Palace (located in Poland, 50 km from Warsaw) between 13 - 28 of August 2013. The main theme of this year's course is computer technology in music. Lecturers: Miguel Azguime, Cezary Duchnowski, Zugmunt Krauze, Mauro Lanza, Mauricio Sotelo, Frances-Marie Uitti, Chen Yi and Agata Zubel. ....read more

• 2013/07/10-07/23 the 2013 Composing in the Wilderness Field Seminar, is sure to be an intensive and exhilarating creative experience. Participants must be trained composers (professional, or currently enrolled in a university composition program) with experience preparing their own manuscripts and writing chamber music for various instruments. ....read more

• 2013/07/13 Chai Found Music Workshop/ 2012 Sizhu Music Composition Contest Composers are invited to submit innovative works amalgamating the best of East and West for Sizhu music ensemble. ....read more

• 2013/07/21-07/27 Mizzou International Composers Festival (formerly Mizzou New Music Summer Festival), on the campus of the University of Missouri. Eight composers from around the world will be selected through a portfolio application process to compose a work to be performed by the internationally acclaimed new music ensemble, Alarm Will Sound. ....read more

• 2013/08/14-08/17 The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), are pleased to announce the 7th edition of the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (TES). ....read more

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competitions' results and awards

• On Tuesday 27th of August Youssou N’Dour & Kaija Saariaho will receive The Polar Music Prize 2013 from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at a gala ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall to be followed by a celebratory banquet at Grand Hôtel. The ceremony will be broadcast live on national television (TV4). ....read more

• The British composer Naomi Pinnock has been awarded first prize in the Günter Bialas Composition Competition 2013 for her work »A Dream within a Dream« for Mezzosoprano and Piano on April 17, 2013. The second prize went to Alexander Muno for Two Songs on Texts by John Donne for Bariton and Piano. Julian Lembke was awarded the third prize for his »Ich durchstreife Deinen Raum« for Mezzosoprano and Piano ....read more

• The North Rhine-Westphalia Arts Foundation has announced that the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize for 2013 will be awarded, by unanimous vote, to Michel van der Aa. The award will be presented on 28 April during the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. ....read more

• Dutch composer Michel van der Aa has won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his multimedia work Up-Close, premiered in 2011, which offers a unique blend of cello concerto with film. In the Holland Festival 2013 Michel van der Aa will present his latest music theatre work Sunken Garden, a multimedia opera utilising 3d film telling a story which switches between cunning deception and occult truth, between the virtual and the real, between life and death. ....read more

• "Buoy" by David Berezan (1967, Canada) has won the 13th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2012 organized by Miso Music Portugal received 180 works from composers from 32 different countries juged byf Gilles Gobeil, António Ferreira and Miguel Azguime ....read more

• Thirteen compositions have been shortlisted for the Gaudeamus Prize 2013. Over 200 composers under the age of 30, hailing from 29 different countries, entered a composition in hopes of winning this much sought-after award. Now the jury, consisting of Peter Adriaansz (NL), Annelies van Parys (BE), and Dmitri Kourliandski (RU) has made its selection. At the end of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2013 it will determine the winner of the Gaudeamus Prize. All nominated works will be performed during Gaudeamus Muziekweek which runs from 1 through 8 September 2013 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ....read more

• Winner of Ö1 talents Market Composition Prize 2012, Wen Liu of the Vienna Conservatory. The young musician from China, born 1988, studied composition with Wolfgang Liebhart. The junior-promotion is worth 10,000 euros and is supported by the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) ....read more

• The 7th Métamorphoses Acousmatic Composition Competition, organized by Musiques et Recherches and held in occasion of the 19th International Acousmatic Festival Espace du Son has attributed the following prizes: First prize: Manuella Blackburn - Switched on Prize of the Public: Orestis Karamanlis - Toys ....read more

• Konstantin Heuer (1989) from Germany is the winner of the Gaudeamus Prize 2012 unanimously chosen by the international jury consisting of Martijn Padding (NL), Annie Gosfield (USA) and Christopher Butterfield (CAN) Alaska - for two speakers, soprano, tenor, bass, six violins, viola, cello and electronics - by Heuer was performed on Tuesday by VocaalLAB and the String Orchestra of the HKU. Maxim Shalygin (1985, Ukraine / Netherlands) and Edward Hamel (1986, USA) received an honorable mention In total, almost 300 compositions were submitted. ....read more

• Julia Hanadi Al Abed (France), Alejandro Montes De Oca (Mexique), Sam Salem (Royaume Uni) The 10th anniversary of the Luc Ferrari Competition proposes the candidates to compose a " Hörspiel " around the word " Correspondance " with maximum freedom. This inventive form of composition allows narration as much as abstraction, and the most minimalistic gesture as much as luxuriant form ....read more

• finalists of Forme Uniche 2012: Ewan Campbell (United Kingdom) Matteo Casula (Italy), Kazue Kaku (Korea) , Giulia Lorusso (Italy), Samuel Messer (United Kingdom), Sandro Mungianu (Italy), Mari Ohno (Japan), Sebastian Phlox (Australia) , Iran Sanazadeh (Iran / Australia), Tania Sikelianou (Greece), ....read more

• RESULTS of the 2012 International Rostrum of Composers: Tierra Viva (2009) for piano and tape by Argentinean composer Pedro OCHOA (born 1968) and Attempt at Screaming (2011), for ensemble by young Bulgarian composer Peter KERKELOV (born 1984) are the works selected by radio music producers participating in the 59th International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) held at the Radiohuset in Stockholm, from May 22 to 25, 2012. ....read more

• the jury of the 5th Brandenburg Biennial on Tuesday 19th of June at 7 p.m. assigned the Komponistenpreis award to Ms Ying Wang (Shanghai/Cologne) and the "da capo" prize to Mr José Javier Torres Maldonado (Mexico/Italy). ....read more

• The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation honours Friedrich Cerha with the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, often called the "Nobel Prize for Music". Cerha will receive the prestigious award at a musical ceremony in Munich at the Cuvilliés Theatre on 22 June 2012 ....read more

• Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2012 1st Prize Federico Gardella (Italy) Mano d'erba, per orchestra and Ioannis Angelakis (Greece) une œuvre pour l'écho des rêves (II), pour orchestre and 2 3rd Prizes Masato Kimura (Japan) I do hope to sleep in the silent universe and Shiori Usui (Japan) WARAI ....read more

• Japanese composer Sakai Kenji has won the the Queen Elisabeth International Grand Prize for Composition 2011. His Concerto pour violon et orchestre will be performed at the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts (Palais des Beaux-Arts) by the 12 finalists of the 2012 violin competition and the National Orchestra of Belgium, dir. Gilbert Varga, from 21 to 26 May (world premiere on Monday 21 May). ....read more

• The New Forum Jeune Création competition organised by Grame and Champ d'Action and mosaik ensembles, partnered with the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain and Gmem announce the winners are: Aurelio Edler-Copes - Brazil/Italy (mosaik), Eduardo Moguillansky - Argentina/ (mosaik), Hikari Kiyama - Japan/Belgium (Champ d'Action), Johannes Kreidler - Germany (Champ d'Action), Aurélien Dumont - France (Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain), Christopher Trapani - USA (Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain) ....read more

• 7th Concours Dutilleux (France) won by Samuel Andreyev (Canada) with "Night Divisionfor piano, flûte alto, cor anglais, clarinette (clarinette basse), trombone, percussions, contrebasse ....read more

• Finalists: Thomas Amann (Austria), David Brynjar Franzson (Iceland / USA) and Martin Iddon (Great Britain) The prizewinning work, Les jeux / Les Poupées, will be premiered within the program of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL on 9 September 2012 by the basel sinfonietta under the baton of Peter Eötvös. ....read more

• The jury of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2-9 September 2012, consisting of Martijn Padding (The Netherlands), Annie Gosfield (USA), and Christopher Butterfield (Canada), has nominated thirteen compositions for the Gaudeamus Prize 2012. These compositions, selected from almost 300 entries, will be performed in the International Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Music Week) which will take place from Sunday, September 2 to Sunday, September 9 in Utrecht, the Netherlands ....read more

• The Young Composers Meeting besides Gijs van der Heijden also Yu Oda received a commission for het Nationaal Jeugd Orkest and Lauri Supponen for a solo- piece foor the Int. Masterclass Apeldoorn ....read more

• The 10th International Piano Competition of Orléans took place from February 23 to March 5, 2012 in Orléans and Paris where Christopher GUZMAN (USA) with four and Andrew ZHOU with three prizes were two of the winners http://www.oci-piano.com/html/index.php?arbo=1&page=106&lng_url=en" class="external-link-new-window" title="Opens external link in new window">....read more

• 1stprize to Kotaro Morikawa for the piece "Erosion", and 2nd prize to Noriko Koide for the piece "Kohaku".in the "1st International Competition for Musical Composition Audire Musica Delle Sfere" (Asti - Italy). ....read more

• Het Dudok Kwartet heeft de eerste prijs behaald bij het Eerste Internationale Strijkkwartet Concours in Radom (Polen). ....read more

• The Jury of the "1st International Contest for Musical Composition", has decided to award 1st prize to Kotaro Morikawa (Japan) for the piece "Erosion", and 2nd prize to Noriko Koide (Japan) for the piece "Kohaku". And for particular artistic merits "Che 'l giardin dello 'mperio sia..." by Karen Odrobna Gerardi (Italy) and "Nono" by Guillermo Lauzurica (Spain) ....read more

• The winner of the International Ibsen Award 2012 (330,000 Euro). is Heiner Goebbel. for bringing a new artistic dimension to the world of drama or theatre. His work Eraritjaritjaka will be the festival's finale during the International Ibsen Festival at the National Theatre in Oslo 23/8 - 9/9. ....read more

• Luke Bedford is a British composer. His works range from chamber groups (Of the Air) to full orchestra (Outblaze the Sky, Wreathe). Currently Luke is the first ever composer in residence at the Wigmore Hall, and will receive an Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Composer's Prize, to be awarded in June 2012 in Munich ....read more

• Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2012 goes to Friedrich Cerha. Composers' Prizes 2012 go to Luke Bedford, Zeynep Gedizlioglu and Ulrich Alexander Kreppein ....read more

• Results of Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2011; [Judge: Salvatore Sciarrino] 1st Prize Florent Motsch-Etienne (France) Flux et; 2nd Prize Bernd Richard Deutsch (Austria); 3rd Prize Jan Erik Mikalsen (Norway) Parts; 4th Prize Heera Kim (Korea) NAMOK ....read more

• The Dudok Quartet won the first prize at International String Quartet Concours at Radom (Poland) with a program of .G. Bacewicz - String Quartet No. 4 and any 20th or 21st century quartet ....read more

• Violin Concerto, a piece by composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, has won the 2012 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition ....read more

• The overall winner of the 2011 IMC Musical Award is Music. Play for Life. In the setting of the 4thIMC World Forum on Music, the International Music Council staged the award-giving ceremony of the IMC Musical Rights Awards on September 27th 2011 ....read more

• Miso Music Portugal has the pleasure to announce the results of the Música Viva Electroacoustic Competition 2011; Daniel Blinkhorn (Australia) - Anthozoa, Louise Harris (UK) - sys_m1, Theodore Karkatselas (Greece) - Sting, Honorable Mentions: Jon Christopher Nelson (USA) - Turbulent Blue, Mario Mary (France) - 2261 ....read more

• Gaudeamus Prize 2011 went to Départ dans… by Yoshiaki Onishi, who lives in North America and was performed Friday night 9/11 by the Nieuw Ensemble. Honorable mentions went to Voices and Echo I by Andrew McIntosh, performed on the Wednesday before by Elisabeth Smalt and Vincent Happ and Tracing the Shadows of Broken Time by Wei-Chieh Lin performed on Monday September 5 by ensemble Insomnio ....read more

• Henriette Bosmansprijs 2011 went to Nikos Ioakeim for his composition A Road not Taken. Christian Richter received for his work Unable Tera de Marez Oyens Prize and is intended to write a new composition. Leo Smith Ensemble Ruud van Eeten performed the works. ....read more

• Results of the 6th Jurgenson Composers Competition 2011 by the jury committee consisting of: Vladimir Tarnopolsky (chairman), Alexander Wustin, Boris Getselev, Igor Dronov, Faraj Karaev, Mark Pekarsky awarded 8 prizes in 3 categories ....read more

• Oboist Ivan PODYOMOV: 2nd prize at ARD Music Competition Munich After an exciting finale of highest musical quality the 25-year-old Russian shared the 2nd prize at the ARD Oboe Competition yesterday ? the 1st prize was not awarded ....read more

• The Foundation Destellos announce the results of the Forth International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-music The First Prize was given in ex-æquo to : "Magic" by Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece) and "Golden bowls" by David Hindmarch (United Kingdom) ....read more

• The Polar Music Prize was presented today for the 20th year and this year's Laureates, the American string quartet Kronos Quartet and American poet and musician Patti Smith received prize money to the amount of one million Swedish kronor by his Majesty the King of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall. ....read more

• Julian Scordato winner of the first edition of the composition competition "Disklavier Plus" with his work "Axon" (for disklavier and live-electronics, 2011) is selected by by a jury of Christina Viola Oorebeek, Wim de Ruiter, Robert van Heumen, Wouter Snoei en Henk Heuvelmans and will be performed on September 8th in the Museum Speelklok in Utrecht as part of the Gaudeamus Music Week 2011. ....read more

• Prize winners CHENGDU CHINA 6th SUN RIVER PRIZE Students New Composition Competition, Chengdu, PR China, 2010 ....read more

• Final Prizes Announced at the conclusion of the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition! Monash University Grand Prize: Amaryllis Quartett, Musica Viva Australia Prize: Kelemen Kvartett ....read more

• Musical Life in Germany, the MIZ has succeeded in presenting a clear and concise compendium of information covering every area of music with 133 publicly funded symphony and chamber orchestras, 83 music theatres, nearly 500 music festivals held on a regular basis, thousands of amateur and semi-professional choruses, orchestras and ensembles and a tight-knit web of institutions for musical education and training ....read more

• Results of the, TANSMAN 2010 - VIII International Competition of Musical Personalities Composers Competition from 1st to 5th prize: Dusty Rusty Hush by Ond?ej Adámek, Czech, cveti?, ku?ica.../la lugubre gondola by Marko Nikodijevi?, Serbia/Germany, Concerto per mandolino e orchestra by Federico Gardella, Italy, Stórr by Irene Buckley, Ireland, Un Rêve Long Et Joyeux by Carlo Alessandro Landini, Italy ....read more

• the winners of the 2011 Brass Initiative Composition Search are...Adam Jones , J. Clay Gonzalez , Alex Siever, Roger May , Andrew Hoole , Peter Knight , Chris Bassett, Dave Wolfson, Isamu Tachihara, Roger Zare, Rich Byrd, Tyler Capp ....read more

• Mr.Salvatore Sciarrino, judge of the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2011, has chosen the following 4 orchestral works out of 120 entries from 39 countries eligibly accepted by 30 September 2010.. These four nominated works will be performed on 18 January 2012 at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall : Takemitsu Memorial ....read more

• Compositiewedstrijd 'Hedendaagse Muziek voor Amateurs' van CoMAMaastricht resultaten Rick van Veldhuizen, Peter Greve, Mathieu Daniel Polak, Wilma Pistorius ....read more

• acchina per scoppiare Pagliacci (2010) for orchestra by Italian composer Francesco FILIDEI (born 1973) and Abismo al Abismo (2011), an electroacoustic piece by young Argentinean composer Juan Pablo NICOLETTI (born 1983) are the works selected by radio music producers participating in the 58 th International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) held at the ORF Funkhaus in Vienna, from June 7 to 10, 2011 ...read more

• De winnaar van de Buma Toonzetters Prijs 2011 is Yannis Kyriakides met het werk Paramyth. Woensdagavond 22 juni ontving deze in Nederland woonachtige componist van Cypriotische afkomst de prijs ter waarde van € 10.000,-. De internationale vakjury, onder voorzitterschap van Lucas Vis, kwalificeerde Paramyth als beste Nederlandse compositie van 2010.....read more

• The Edison Foundation has announced that Martijn Padding is the recipient of the Edison in its new category De Ontdekking (The Discovery) for his work 'Three Concerti'. The jury was unanimous: "…so, contemporary music can sound sunny, playful and uncomplicated." ....read more

• Nikos Ioakeim, Wilko Jordens, Yu Oda and Christiaan Richter are selected for the Final concert of the Henriëtte Bosmans- and Tera de Marez Oyensprijs, stimulating prizes for young composers....read more

• Richard Rijnvos has been awarded the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulen Prize 2011 for his song cycle Die Kammersängerin. The prize will be presented on 22 June 2011 during a Holland Festival production in the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ (Amsterdam). The concert will feature a fully staged performance of the award winning work by Marijje van Stalen (soprano), the Ives Ensemble, Jos van Kan (stage director), and Michiel Voet (set design). Similar to its world premiere on 8 May 2010, it will include animated surtitles designed by students of KMT (HKU Utrecht) ....read more

• On Sunday, April 17th, the American percussionist Brian Archinal was awarded the first prize (€4.500) of the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2011. He was one of the five finalists who battled it out for the three prizes. Following his second round audition with All facing upwards van Piet-Jan van Rossum and Corporel by Vinko Globokar he performed Louis Andriessen’s Woodpecker and part one from Bone Alphabet by Brian Ferneyhough.
  The second prize (€ 2,250) was awarded to the English harpist Eleanor Turner, the third prize (€ 1,125) went to the Solaris Duo consisting Joel Diegert, an American saxophonist and the Georgian pianist Mariam Vardzelashvili. The remaining finalists were Vincent Lhermet (accordion) from France and the English recorder player Francesca Thompson. See here a video impression or ....read more

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