International Bartók Seminar and Festival: The event is organized every year in the middle of July. It includes concerts, instrumental and compositional courses, computer music workshop and, lectures on musicology. It focuses on the 20th century and contemporary music repertoire especially on the oevre of Bartók. The musicians are the greatest Hungarian artists from Hungary and abroad, but also several professors, musicians and ensembles are invited from other countries too.

ISCM - Swedish Section

Magnus Lemark
Hommedal, Ekeliden
S-450 46 Hunnebostrand
Sweden
t: +46-523-91210
f: +46-738-210004
magnus.lemark@glocalnet.net
www.iscm.a.se

Via our website, we offer swedish composers and musicians information of news and oppor-tunities in the international contemporary music life. The Swedish section is also the owner of Nutida Musik, the only magazine for Contemporary Music in Sweden.

The Swedish section support the Preparations for the ISCM World New Music Days 2009 wich 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 !
information: www.listentotheworld.se

Kosovar Center for New Music (KCNM)

Rafet Rudi,
Kroi i Bardhe D-V/9
10 000 Prishtina
Kosovo - UNMIK
tel: +381-38-540813
fax: +377-44-115302
rafet_rudi@hotmail.com
remusicafestival.com

Kosovar Center for New Music (KCNM) is a project dedicated to promote new expressions and cultivate new tendencies in music, exploring new fields in music education, computer sound manipulation, editing and production of sounds. Initiators and leaders of Kosovar Center for New Music in Prishtina are composers Rafet Rudi and Ilir Bajri. CNM works in its own premises which are located at the building of Faculty of Music in Prishtina.

- Main goal of all activities of the Centre (KCNM) promotion and diffusion of contemporary music (of all important intentions that appeared during the XX and till now).
- KCNM is an open stage to composers, musicologists, performers.
- KCNM develops standard activities on several directions--organizes concerts, workshops, lectures and different trainings
- KCNM cooperates with different world foundations, different contemporary music centres with whom realizes joint concerts and projects.
- KCNM promotes and diffuses pieces from Kosovars' contemporary musicians.
- KCNM edits CDs containing pieces realised in the Festival organised by the Centre, publishes scripts of Kosovars' contemporary musicians as well as authorial CD of Kosovars' composers..
- KCNM organises during May the International Festival of Music named REMUSICA. Till now, six editions of the Festival have been organized

The Prishtina International Festival Remusica remusicafestival.com
Prishtina International Festival - Remusica is the result of the work of a group of talented kos-ovar composers led by Rafet Rudi, the initiator of the whole idea. The main aim of the Festival is to promote contemporary music through presentation of different stylistic tendencies of the XX century up to the present day. The Festival REMUSICA in its program, time after time, includes also pieces of composers from other stylistic epochs (especially baroque) through which a logical stylistic parallel is drafted between contemporary and classical music.
In the five first editions of the present Festival, we had the honor to receive, among the guest artists: Aki Takahashi (Japan), Mondriaan Quartet (Netherland), Peter Sheppard Skaerved (England), Stockholm Saxofone Quartet (Sweden), Choir "Pravoslavie" (Bulgaria), Trio Fibo-nacci (Canada), Rafael Andia (France), Jean Jacques Balet & Mayumi Kameda (Switzerland), Marcel Worms (Netherland), Kifu Mitsuhashi & Nanae Yoshimura (Japan), Ian Pace (Great Britain), Andreas Lewin Richter (Spain), Ehat Musa (France), Irene Maessen (Netherland), Annette Vande Gorne (Belgium), Pascal Godart (France), Orphelié Gaillard (France), Florent Héau (France), Eleonore Pameijer (Netherland), Ensemble contemporain du Conservatoire de Genève (Switzerland), Ensemble Amra (Albania), Ensemble Vivendi (Kosovo), Peter Sheppard (UK) etc. The works of Bartok, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Shostakovich, Messiaen, Ligeti, Scelsi, Pendereczki, Takemitsu, Nishimura, Xenakis, Nancarrow, Rzewski, Parmerud, Murail, Dusapin, Radelescu, Clarke etc. have been performed.
An additional relationship is established between kosovar music creators and their colleagues from around the world, as our renowned guests always include works of our composers in their performances. On the other hand, these encounters give to our performing artists the opportunity to present their artistic expression amidst valuable international competitors.
Center For New Music is always open for collaboration with other Centres, Music Fesitvals for any project in common.

Laboratory of Contemporary Music

Prof. Marian Borkowski,Artistic Director
Pawel Lukaszewski, Organization Director
ul. klaudyny 6/83
PL-01-684 Warsaw
Poland
tel/fax: ++48-22-3368592
lukaszewski@chopin.edu.pl
www.laboratorium.org.pl  

Inara Jakubone
Riharda Vagnera iela 4
LV-1050 RIGA
Latvia
tel: +371-7226797
fax: +371-226798
info@lmic.lv
www.lmic.lv  

The LMIC's focus of activity is Latvian contemporary and classical music, composers, perform-ers, concert organisers and devotees. The Centre's goals are to promote Latvian music, to col-late and disseminate information about it, to facilitate Latvia's involvement in the international music scene, to promote the performance and publishing of Latvian music. The LMIC provides information not only on Latvian composers and their works, but also on the Latvian music scene. The Centre facilitates contacts between foreign and Latvian music institutions, compos-ers, performing artists, music publishers and the media. The LMIC takes care of Latvia's repre-sentation at international music exhibitions and fairs, publishes CDs and informative materials.

18/10-05/11 ARENA New Music Festival, Riga, Latvia, arenafest@music.lv, www.arenafest.lv
01-28/2/2009 Riga, Latvian New Music Days, Latvian Composers' Union : Tel/Fax +371 7293059, mail :lks@td.lv. web: www.lks.org.lv
20/8- 5/9/2009 Riga International Sacred Music Festival 2008, State Choir LATVIJA, maris.o@inbox.lv , www.choirlatvija.lv
Important Latvian links:
Latvian Music Information Centre: www.lmic.lv
Altera Veritas ensemble www.alteraveritas.lv
Latvian Radio Choir: www.koris.latvijasradio.lv
Latvija State Choir ("Latvija" is the name of choir) www.choirlatvija.lv
Kamer Youth Chamber Choir www.kamer.lv
Putni Female vocal ensemble www.music.lv/putni
Sinfonietta Riga Chamber Orchestra www.sinfoniettariga.lv
Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra www.kremerata-baltica.com
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, www.lnso.lv
Latvian New Music Days, www.lks.org.lv
Riga International Sacred Music Festival, www.choirlatvija.lv
Latvijas Radio: www.latvijasradio.lv
Latvia: Musica Baltica, www.musicabaltica.lv
Associations section Latvian Composers Union: www.lks.org.lv

Lithuanian Composers' Union (LCU) is a public organization which unites professional composers and musicologists of Lithuania. LCU supports, disseminates and promotes music of Lithuanian composers within the country and abroad through festivals, workshops, international exchanges, organizes musicological conferences and fosters the development of the Lithuanian musicology.

The LCU has the Music Information and Publishing Centre on its premises. For any information, scores or recordings related to Lithuanian music please contact the Centre; info@mic.lt or visit Centre’s website - www.mic.lt

ISCM World Music Days 2008/18th Gaida Festival
October 24 - November 8, Vilnius, Lithuania
For detailed program go to www.wmd2008.org/en/info/32
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 interna-tional jury selecting works which underline the chosen festival theme "InBetween", looking at contemporary music as transit zone and middle ground.

Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music

Marcel Wengler, president
P.O. Box 828
L-2018 Luxemburg
Luxemburg
tel: +352-225821
fax: +352-225823
lgnm@lgnm.lu
www.lgnm.lu  

The LGNM ( Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music), the Luxembourg section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), was founded in 1983.

The aims of the LGNM are:
- to promote contemporary music, particularly that of Luxembourg;
- to organise concerts, conferences, workshops and events of any other kind designed to promote contemporary music;
- to develop exchanges and cooperation with national and international groups or organisa-tions which pursue similar aims;
- to set up a documentation centre for Luxembourg contemporary music;
- to extend its activities to all fields having a direct relationship with these aims.
Since its inception, the LGNM has tried to pursue these objectives by organising a large number of events of various kinds:
- Classics of the 20th century: This is an annual festival devoted to composers who have left their mark on the 20th century.
- Symphony concerts: Since 1993, the 10th anniversary of the founding of the LGNM, special concerts have been given by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, with Marcel Wengler conducting.
- Exchange concerts: Since 1995 the LGNM has been able to intensify its contacts with foreign partners and hold exchange concerts in Israel, Japan, Denmark and Romania. In addition, ensembles and soloists are regularly invited to concerts of contemporary music in Luxembourg.
- Festivals of Luxembourgish music: The three festivals which the LGNM has organised were mainly intended to bring Luxembourgish composers more to the attention of the public.
- Dedicatory concerts: In this series, the concerts are centred around a celebrated composer who is invited for the occasion to Luxembourg. Several world premières have thus seen the light of day, by Ivo Malec, Iannis Xenakis, Silvano Bussotti, Michael Tippett, Olivier Mess-siaen, George Crumb, Maurice Ohana and Witold Lutoslawski.

- LGNM Editions: Whereas most Luxembourg composers either publish on their own account or have their works published by international publishing houses to which they are affiliated, LGNM Editions basically promote Luxembourgish music via compact disc. Amongst the 16 CDs published to date, is the Anthology of Luxembourgish Music, comprising some 22 symphonic works by 16 Luxembourgish composers.
- Luxembourg Sinfonietta: The ensemble Luxembourg Sinfonietta, founded in 1999, has since been endeavouring to make contemporary music accessible to a wider public and to pres-ent Luxembourg composers, particularly abroad. Its first opportunity to pursue this goal was the World Exhibition in Hanover in 2000 where it represented compositions from Germany, France and Luxembourg, under the theme "Lucifer", for the German Pavilion's cultural pro-gram Expo 2000. Apart from a number of first performances, the Luxembourg Sinfonietta also plays the classics of the past century, as well as its own arrangements and orchestra-tions of existing works which thus attain a new dimension and importance.

International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2008 "EUROPE MEETS CHINA"
The Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music has announced its 7th International Com-position Prize for the year 2008. Composers from all over the world were invited to present new works for the ensemble Luxembourg Sinfonietta and Sheng. The Sheng is one of the oldest Chinese instruments with a history going back approximately 3000 years. The modern descant sheng has 37 bamboo tubes contained in a metallic pot with a mouthpiece. It has a range of three chromatic octaves. It is thus possible to play polyphonal works, chords and even clusters on a Sheng.
The compositions will be judged by an international jury consisting of François Bousch (France), Wing Wah Chan (Hong Kong), Cord Meijering (Netherlands), Wu Wei (China) and Marcel Wengler (Luxembourg). The judges will screen the submitted scores and select four works to be performed at the Final Concert given by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta on October 18, 2008. The finalists must be present at this concert. The awards will be decided by the judges following the performance. The prize-winning works will be recorded and published on CD.

The Luxembourg Sinfonietta, under the direction of Marcel Wengler will appear in the fol-lowing composition: 1 clarinet in Bb, 1 bass clarinet in Bb, 1 soprano saxophone, 1 alto saxophone, 1 horn in F, 1 tuba in C, violin, viola, cello, piano and 1 percussion player. The new works will be performed by Wu Wei, one of the international leading and avantgarde Sheng Soloists.
The International Composition Competition of the Luxembourg Sinfonietta will take place in future each year. Further information are published under: www.luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu

Luxembourg Sinfonietta / LGNM concert series
26/09 - Esch / Alzette - Luxembourg
Concert-performance as part of the project:
Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) " Intégrale de l'oeuvre d'orgue "
" Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité " by Olivier Messiaen
Soloist : Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ)
10/10 - Conservatoire de Musique de la Ville de Luxembourg,
Luxembourg Sinfonietta, soloist: Yannchen Hoffmann (mezzo-soprano)
Conductor: Marcel Wengler
18/10 - Centre des Arts Pluriels Ettelbruck / Luxembourg, International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2008 - Final Concert given by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta, soloist: Wu Wei (sheng), Conductor: Marcel Wengler
Programme: four prize-winning works, especially written for the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2008
05/11 - Sichuan Conservatory of Music - Chengdu / China
Luxembourg Sinfonietta performing new works written by Chinese and European composers, Conductor: Marcel Wengler
06/11 - Sichuan Conservatory of Music - Chengdu / China
Luxembourg Sinfonietta performing new works written by Chinese and European composers, Conductor: Marcel Wengler
08/11 - Beijing / China
Luxembourg Sinfonietta performing new works written by Chinese and European composers, Conductor: Marcel Wengler
10/11 - Philharmonie Luxembourg, " Concert exceptionnel à l'occasion du 25e anniversaire de la Société luxembourgeoise de musique contemporaine " Luxembourg Sinfonietta, Conduc-tor: Marcel Wengler
15/11 - Ettelbruck - Luxembourg
Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) " Intégrale de l'oeuvre d'orgue "
"Le Livre du Saint Sacrement" by Olivier Messiaen
Soloist : Loic Mallié (organ)
19/12 - Cathédrale de la Ville de Luxembourg
Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) " Intégrale de l'oeuvre d'orgue "
"Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle, Nativité du Seigneur" by Olivier Messiaen
Soloist : Olivier Latry (organ)
16/01/2009 - Conservatoire de Musique de la Ville de Luxembourg,
"Europe meets China"
The Luxembourg Sinfonietta will be featuring compositions by Chinese and European composers, presented on traditionnal Chinese instruments, soloists:NN, Conductor: Marcel Wengler
17/02/2009 - Philharmonie Luxembourg, portrait-concert given by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta, featuring works by Luxembourg composers René Mertig, Camille Kerger and Marcel Reuter
May 2009 - Concert given by the Kapralova string quartet under the general heading of "Martinu Revised", a programme supported by the International Martinu Circle to mark the anniversaries of the birth and death by the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu.
Programme: Bohuslav Martinu, string quartet and first performance of the string quartet writ-ten by Luxembourg composer Johny Fritz
info@luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu
www.luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu

MaerzMusik - Festival für aktuelle Musik
Berliner Festspiele Gmbh

Mathias Osterwold, Artistic Director
Schaperstraße 24
D-10719 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49-030-25489-0
fax: +49-30-25489-114
maerzmusik@berlinerfestspiele.de
www.maerzmusik.de  

MaerzMusik 2009 - Festival of Contemporary Music / Berliner Festspiele
March 20 - 29, 2009
Reduction . Concept . Structure . Deconstruction
Young Russia meets the American Avant-garde
The confrontation of young composers from Russia and adjacent countries with the "classi-cal" North American avant-garde from the 50s until today stands in the focus of MaerzMusik 2009, linked by outstanding works by younger and elder European composers. Structural and conceptual thinking, reduction and sparseness of musical material, deconstruction of historical references are reflected throughout the festival program as thematic guidelines. Portraits and spots: Dmitri Kourliandski and StRes/Structural Resistance Group. Christian Wolff. Steve Reich. Robert Ashley. György Kurtág. Music from Armenia.

Selected performances:
21-22/03/09 György Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente. Salome Kammer (soprano), Carolin Widmann (violin), Antoine Gindt (stage director)
22/03/09 Kairos String Quartet: Music from Russia, Armenia and U.S.A.
22/03/09 Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble: Portrait Dmitri Kourliandski and StRes - Structural Resistance Group
23/03/09 Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam: Works by Enno Poppe (wp), Vykintas Baltakas (wp) et al.
25/03/09 Steve Reich: Drumming. Ictus Ensemble Brussels
26/03/09 Ensemble Contrechamps Geneva: Works by György Kurtág, Dmitri Kourliandski, Beat Furrer, Frank Bedrossian
27/03/09 Eighth Blackbird Chicago: Works by Steve Reich, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe
28/03/09 Quatuor Bozzini Montreal: Works by Christian Wolff (wp), James Tenney, John Cage
29/03/09 Sergej Newski / Beate Baron: Cargo 23 / Music theatre installation (wp)
12-29/03/09 Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller: Murder of Crows, Installation at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin
The detailed program is due to be released in January 2009.

Miso Music Center
Centre For Musical Creation

Paula de Castro Guimar ães
Rua do Douro 92 - Revelva
P-2775-318 Parede
Portugal
tel: +351-21-4575068
fax: +351-214587256
misomusic@misomusic.com
www.misomusic.com
www.mic.pt

Miso Music Portugal funded by the Ministério da Cultura / Direcção Geral das Artes, is a Portuguese centre for the promotion of New Music, which develops a certain number of activities, such as an ensemble: the Miso Ensemble, a creation and research music studio devoted to live electronics: the Miso Studio, a record label: the Miso Records, an international annual festival: the Música Viva Festival, a weekly radio broadcasting devoted to contemporary music after the 50th: the Música Hoje broadcast. During all the year they propose and produce concerts in Portugal and abroad but also music educational activities as well as workshops on live electronic.

Música Viva Festival 2008 - 19 to 27 of September 2008
www.misomusic.com/ingl/circul/mviva/2008.html
Jerónimos Monastery, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Belém Arts Centre
Intersection of multiple musical expressions and aesthetics
In its 14th edition, the Música Viva Festival is both national and internationally recognised as a vast breathing space of renewal; as a meeting point of today's music metamorphoses; as a place for some to share their experiences; as a source of inspiration for many. It is a privileged platform for exchanging and discussing ideas and aesthetics; a crossroad between music and technology; an occasion for dialogue with other realms of contemporary creation, in a field that extends from the instrumental and analogue to the virtual and electronic.
From improvisation to score music, Música Viva Festival offers once more the most prominent names alongside the youngest composers and performers.
The Festival reaffirms the Portuguese music creation full vitality and diversity by presenting performances with large orchestras, the Miso Music Portugal's Loudspeaker Orchestra and its notorious electronic music concerts, chamber music, electroacoustic theatre, concerts for children, sound and video installations, and vocal performances.
Opening concert at Mosteiro dos Jerónimos Church, 19th of September at 22h with the Portuguese premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's MIXTUR 2003. uring the festival there are 24 different performances; 124 pieces (15 of them commissioned by Miso Music Portugal); 53 wps; works from 82 different composers of which 42 are Portuguese. Finally there will be the new Sound Walk project and 6 sound installations at the festival's Interactive Lounge.
Full programme at: www.misomusic.com/ingl/circul/mviva/2008.html

Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble www.misomusic.com/ingl/crea/sondartei.html
This new ensemble, founded by Miso Music Portugal with the artistic direction of Miguel Azguime and Pedro Amaral as a conductor, is devoted to a repertoire that joins acoustic instruments and the most recent electronic technologies.
Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble's original characteristic is the significance given to the interpre-tation of instrumental repertoire with electronic means. It is therefore an innovative project, both nationally and internationally.
Miguel Azguime: artistic director, Pedro Amaral: conductor, Monika Duarte Streitova: flute, Nuno Pinto: clarinet, Suzanna Lidegran: violin, Marco Pereira: cello, Ana Telles: piano, Miso Studio: electronics, Invited musicians for special repertoire

2nd Sond'Ar-te Composition Competition 2009
Chamber Music with Electronics
www.misomusic.com/ingl/crea/comcomp/2009.html
In order to encourage the composition of chamber music with electronics, Miso Music Por-tugal and the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble are organising, the "2nd Sond'Ar-te Composition Competition 2009 - Chamber Music with Electronics"
Miso Ensemble - Hypermedia Opera / Electroacoustic Theatre
http://www.misoensemble.com/ingles/concertproposal/electroacousticopera.html
Salt Itinerary transcends theatrical and music conventions.
6th of December, 2008 | 8:00 P.M.
TRAFÓ - Kortárs M?vészetek Háza, 1094 Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2nd of December, 2008 | 9:00 P.M.
Audio Art Festival, Gombrowicz Theatre, Gdynia, Poland
30th of November, 2008 | 9:00 P.M.
Audio Art Festival, Academy of Music, Krakow, Poland
26th of November, 2008 | 9:00 P.M.
Hamburger Klangwerktage 2008, Hamburg, Germany
With the support of Instituto Camões
Reflecting on Art and Madness, it revolves around languages, words as meaning and words as sound. Both are used as an extension of the body and melted in the construction of the staging as a tangible projection of the resonance of the words through sound and image.
Live audio and video electronic processing and diffusion of the voice, poetry, gestures, music and the drawings creates polyphony of senses and a counterpoint of meanings.
Moulding sounds, lights, pictures and movements as if being drawn, painted or carved, Salt Itinerary is a powerful, engaging and challenging combination of music and drama by one performer that shapes new grounds in electronic music and breaks boundaries between music, theatre, opera.
Salt Itinerary is performed in Portuguese, English, French and German. If desired can be performed mostly in English.
Credits: Salt Itinerary, new Op-Era, Miso Ensemble
Miguel Azguime: performance, composition, texts, and concept
Paula Azguime: sound projection, electronics, dramaturgy, video directing
Andre Bartetzki: live video programming and processing
Perseu Mandillo: live video capture, video directing
Miso Studio: technical development

10th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2009
www.misomusic.com/ingl/crea/comcomp/2009.html
In order to encourage the creation of electro-acoustic music, Miso Music Portugal, the Portuguese section of the ISCM (International Society of Contemporary Music) and the Portuguese Federation of the CIME (Confedération Internationale de Musique Electroacoustique), is organising, as part of the International Festival of Electro-acoustic Music - MÚSICA VIVA, the 10th Música Viva Electro-acoustic Composition Competition 2009.
Winners of the 9th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2008 Miso Music Portugal has the pleasure to announce the results of the Música Viva Competition 2008. Jury members: Robert Normandeau (Canada), Miguel Azguime (Portugal), Folkmar Hein (Technische Universitãt Berlin Germany)
prize winners
Daniel Blinkhorn (Australia) - jeu fabriqué
George Dennis (UK) -Electric Sheep
Jason L. Bolte (USA) - And Death...
Mentions
Volker Hennes (Germany) - The Maelstrom Method
best portuguese piece Sérgio Félix Mota Portugal - Metamorfose

Lab for Electroacoustic Creation - LEC
www.misomusic.com/ingl/crea/elecres.html
Every year the Miso Music Portugal Electroacoustic Studio (LEC) accepts applications for five (5) artistic residencies from portuguese and foreign composers.

Music Center the Netherlands
Contemporary Music Department

Henk Heuvelmans
Rokin 111
1012 KN Amsterdam
Netherlands
t: +31-20-3446060
f: +31-20-6733588
info@mcn.nl
www.mcn.nl  

In 2008 the Gaudeamus Foundation has merged into Music Center the Netherlands (MCN) together with Donemus, the National Pop Institute, De Kamervraag, and the collective jazz institutions. Like Gaudeamus, the contemporary music department is an international center for contemporary music. The contemporary music department organizes and promotes contemporary musical activities and concerts both in The Netherlands and abroad. MCN has decided to keep the name Gaudeamus in two of its activities: the International Gaudeamus Music Week, and the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition.

The Gaudeamus Prize 2008, an award of 4,550 Euros was awarded to the American composer Huck Hodge (1977), is intended as a commission for a new work to be performed at the next edition of the International Gaudeamus Music Week. (7-13 September 2009; Dead-line for entries for 2009: 31 January 2009). Hodge received the prize for Paralaxes, for ensemble, performed on September 3 at the "Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ" by the Asko|Schönberg Ensemble conducted by Bas Wiegers. There were two honorable mentions: Valerio De Bonis (Italy, 1981) received the mention for Un cadeau pour video, and Hugo Morales Murguia (Mexico, 1979) received an honorable mention for \_/, a composition for amplified triangle.

International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition, Amsterdam 18-26 April 2009 (Deadline for entries 1st November 2008) for performers of contemporary music will be hosted by MCN. The competition provides an opportunity for performers of contemporary music to meet other musicians from all over the world. During the festival workshops, master classes, and con-certs will take place. The Competition is open to all instrumental and vocal soloists, duos and ensembles up to twelve performers (excluding conductor). Special Prize: Electric Guitar.
The Interpreters Competition is open to soloists or duo-members born after 25 April 1973. For ensembles the average age of the group members must not exceed 35 years. For vocal-ists the maximum age is 40.

Shift: 18/11/08-21/11/08
As a transatlantic festival, SHIFT is about music, film, literature and fine arts from Canada and The Netherlands. It starts in November 2008 in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ and will continue in February 2009 in Toronto, Canada. Canadian and Dutch people have a special connection since the end of World War II, when a stream of emigrants emerged from The Netherlands to Canada. After 63 years, it's time for an update...

15th Young Composers Meeting 2009 - Apeldoorn, February 8 - 13, 2009, (October 15th, 2008 deadline to register) organized by the orchestra de ereprijs in collaboration with the MCN - International Gaudeamus Music Week (Composition Competition) and with Cultural Center Gigant and Markant. The intention of the Meeting is to give young composers up to 30 years of age and of any nationality the opportunity to exchange ideas about contemporary music and at the same time being part of the learning process of composing with an ensemble at hand. Directors are: Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres, and Julia Wolfe. Gerda van Zelm, coach-ing the singers. The meeting will be chaired and supervised by Louis Andriessen.

(Netherlands Music Days 7-9 november 2008
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ and the Bimhuis, Amsterdam with many premieres, performed by Metropole Orchestra, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Holland Symfonia, De Ereprijs, Asko|Schönberg, the Netherlands Chamber Choir and Bigband of David Kweksilber and others.

Contemporary Music Concerts and Festivals
MCN also supports and organizes contemporary music concerts and festivals in numerous countries. Our special projects include courses on and by composers, master classes, lec-tures, festivals, and exchange programs. We also advise international organizations on new developments in contemporary music, and facilitate the attendance of Dutch composers and ensembles at leading festivals.

Library and Music Information Center
MCN houses a library which is a documentation center and a study center for contemporary music. It offers an extended collection of scores, auditory materials, information on compos-ers, and current periodicals. The library comprises more than 40,000 scores and 50,000 recordings by 20,000 composers.

Music Center Slovakia

Olga Smetanova, Director
Michalská 10
SK- 81536 Bratislava 1
Slovakia
t: +421-7-54434003 - +421-2-59204811
fax +421-7-5443 0379
hc@hc.sk
www.hc.sk  

The Music Centre is a state-subsidised institution established by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic. Its task consits of providing support to Slovak music by organising concerts, introducing compositions by Slovak authors, publishing music and books on music, document-ing Slovakia's concert life and promoting Slovak music culture abroad. The Music Centre Slovakia is a member of international organisations such as IAMIC - International Association of Music Information Centres, IAML - International Association of Music Libraries and ECPNM - European Conference of Promoters of New Music

International Festival of Contemporary Music Melos-Ethos 2009
November, 2009, Slovakia
Festival info: Lubica Zajacova, t: +421 (0)2 5920 4817, f: +421 (0)2 5920 4816, melosethos@hc.sk
19th international festival Evenings of New Music 2008 - October 10 -18, Bratislava
organizer: ISCM Slovak Section
10/10 James Fulkerson (USA/NL)Cage, Fulkerson - compositions for trombone and electronics
11/10 Philip Corner/James Fulkerson/Hilary Jeffery (USA/UK/NL/IT)
Philip Corner - a composer's profile
12/10 BB ensemble (SK): premieres of commissioned works commemorating the 70th anni-versary of the first performance of Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Bartók, Milakoviæ, Zagar
18/10 David Dramm/Peter Graham/Hilary Jeffery/Elliott Sharp/VENI ensemble/Marián Lejava (CZ/GB/NL/SK/USA): premieres of works commissioned by the VENI ensemble, in which the composers participate as soloists
Dramm, Graham, Jeffery, Lejava, Sharp

Performance seminars: 10/10 James Fulkerson, Hilary Jeffery
Composition seminars: 10/10 Philip Corner
17/10 David Dramm, Elliott Sharp
concerts: štúdio 12, jakubovo námestie 12
fringe events: všmu - htf všmu, zochova 1
In collaboration with: AWD Systems, Department of Music and Dance of the Academy of Music and Drama, InMusic, Music Centre Slovakia, Music Centre the Netherlands, ORMAN Agency, Theatre Institute - Studio 12, US Embassy
Financial support: Music Centre Slovakia, Music Fund, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, InMusic, Music Centre the Netherlands, US Embassy
Media: Hudobný život, radioART, .týžden
Programme committee: Daniel Matej - artistic director, Peter Zagar
Production: Katarína Hašková, Irena Lányiová, Daniel Matej, Peter Zagar
Visual concept: Ján Šicko

Musica Nova - Helsinki

Johan Tallgren, Artistic Director
Lasipalatsi
Mannerheimintie 22-24
FIN-00100 Helsinki
Finland
tel: +358-9-61265100
fax: +358-9-61265161
musicanova@musicanova.fi
www.musicanova.fi  

Musica nova Helsinki - 7-14th of February 2009
Founded in 1981, returns 2009 to a biennale format.
The main organisers of the festival are the Finnish Broadcasting Company, the Sibelius Acad-emy, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Helsinki Festival, which is the coordinator and permanent residence of the festival.

The festivals function in a national context has always been to present an international perspective to what is happening elsewhere for the Finnish audience. The next festivals will focus on presenting young and upcoming international composers in relation to already established names, thus establishing a dialogue around certain diverse themes for each festival and creating a context for Finnish composers and the national scene that is slowly becoming more diverse and multicultural. The festival in 2009 will start a more intense collaboration with Teema, the cultural Finnish television channel. Additionally there will be events at Kiasma, the Museum of Modern Art as well as at Art Galleries around the town.
The full program of the festival will be published online at www.musicanova.fi by late November.

Musik 21 Niedersachsen

Elke Moltrecht
Geschäftsführerin
Alte Grammophonfabrik
Edwin-Oppler-Weg 5
D-30167 Hannover
t office: +49 (0)511 7635297-2
f: +49 (0)511 1614250
moltrecht@musik21niedersachsen.de
www.musik21niedersachsen.de

Program Agenda of Musik 21 Niedersachsen Stand: February 24th
Hören Erleben - Listening Experience 2008/2009

2008

Thursday, October 9th, 2008, 7 p.m. Kunsthalle Faust/Art Hall Faust , Hanover
Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire"
Arnold Schoenberg: "Verkärte Macht" Op. 4 after the correspondent poem by
Richard Dehmel and "Pierrot Lunaire", Op. 12
Ensemble Musica Viva Hanover in cooperation with Trio Epsilon (Rouen, France)
Spoken voice: Dorothea Maria Marx
Directed by Hans-Christian Euler

Thursday, October 9th, 2008, 7:30 p.m. Red Hall in the castle, Braunschweig
Prelude Musik 21 Niedersachsen
Works for piano solo and ensemble by Béla Bartók, Pierre Boulez and Elliott Carter
Students of the Music School Braunschweig and Das Neue Ensemble/The New Ensemble, directed by Stephan Meier

Friday, October 10th, 2008, 5 p.m. Academy of Music and Theatre Hanover
Time Lupe III
György Ligeti "Études pour piano" Volume III
Thomas Hell: piano
Frederik Knop (University of Hamburg): commentary
Produced by the Hanoverian Association for contemporary music (hgnm)

Friday / Saturday, October 10th till 11th, 2008, 8 p.m. Ice Factory, Hanover
Sound and Moving Visual Art
Eduardo Flores Abad, composition, media art and live electronics
Jackson Crawford: Alto saxophone
Lenka Zupkova: violin and e-violin

Thursday, October, 16th, 2008, 7 p.m. Kestner Society, Hanover
Music Fiction - Mobile Music I
With works by Gordon Kampe, Bruno Maderna and Hans-Joachim Hespos
L'ART POUR L'ART

Sunday, October 19th, 2008, 11 a.m. Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Paintings
An auditory and visual performance with premieres after Louis Andiressen by Dietrich Hahne, Guenter Steinke, Charlotte Seither, Susanne Erding Swiridoff, Violetta Dinescu and Mindaugas Urbautuis Lectures: Prof. Peter Becker, Prof. Dr. Peter Rautmann
Ensemble Miroirs

Sunday, October 19th, 2008, 7:30 p.m. Academy of Music and Theater, Hanover
Piano recital
Ashley Hribar
Incontri


Thursday, October 23th, 2008, 7:30 p.m. Neustädter St. Johannis Church, Hanover
Organ works by Arauxo, Cavazzoni, Froberger and Michael Radulescu
"Veni" for mezzo-soprano, three groups of drums and flute (German premiere)
Instrumentalists of HMTH
Elisabeth Lagneau (Paris) mezzo-soprano
Michael Radulescu (Vienna) pipe organ and
"Consonanza" - Forum for New Sacred Music of the Academy of Music and Theater, Hanover

Saturday, November 1st, 2008, 7:30 p.m. St. Vitus Church at Barskamp, Bleckede
adieu m'amor
Works by Georg Friedrich Telemann, Mathias Spahlinger, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Alessandro Scarlatti.
Auris Ensemble Aachen
Kunstraum/Art Space Tosterglope

Sunday, November 9th, 2008, 11:15 a.m.
Final Concert of the Junior Festival
a.o. Premiere of the commissioned work of baUsTeLLe KUNSTRAUM
Erwin Stache with students and children's composition class Winsen/Luhe
Europasaal, Music School Hanover, Maschstr. 22-24 Hannover

Sunday, November 16th, 2008, 11:30 a.m./8 p.m. FH Osnabrueck
Composers Forum
Portrait of Sylvia Fómina
Institute for Music/FH Osnabrueck

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008, 8 p.m. Museum for the Principality, Lüneburg
NeueTun:es II
VARIO-46/free improvisation
with Günter Christmann: cello, trombone
Joker Nies: electronics
Wolfgang Schliemann: percussion
Joachim Zoepf: bass clarinet, saxophone
Electronic music by Sylvia Fómina with Karsten Dehning, cello

Thursday, November 27th, 2008, 8 p.m. Markus Church, Hanover
VARIO-46 free improvisation
with Günter Christmann: cello, trombone
Joker Nies: electronics
Wolfgang Schliemann: percussion
Joachim Zoepf: bass clarinet, saxophone
Organ works by Luciano Berio, Wolfgang Rihm, John Cage and György Ligeti
Pier Damiano Peretti: organ

Wednsday, Dezember 3rd, 2008, 7:00/8:00 p.m. Historical observatory Göttingen
Science Fiction - Music Fiction
Musica Viva, Contemporary Music at the University Göttingen
Roundtable with Gordon Kampe, Dr. Frederic V. Hessmann (astrophysicist) and
Roman Pfeifer
Concert with compositions by Gordon Kampe, Roman Pfeifer, Benjamin Lang und
Hans-Joachim Hespos
Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART

Friday, December 5th, 2008, 7:30 p.m. Academy of Music and Theater, Hanover
Greeting to Sirius - To the first anniversary of the death of Karlheinz Stockhausen
compositions with and without electronics
Ensemble Incontri

Friday, December 5th, 2008, 6 and 8 p.m. Forester's house Habichtshorst, Winsen
ZuHören V/Listening V in Winsen: Vernetzt/Networked
Introductory talk and works by Matthias Kaul and Ludwig van Beethoven
Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART

Saturday, December 6th, 2008, 5 p.m.
Composer portrait Matthias Kaul
with the Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART and the Ensemble baUsTeLLe KUNSTRAUM
Kunstraum/art space Tosteglope
Tosterglope

Friday / Saturday, December 5th and 6th, 2008, 8 p.m. Market Church, Hanover
Pier Damiano Peretti "Seid fröhlich ..." - Advent cantata for women's choir, oboe and organ (premier)
Girl's Choir Hanover


2009

Thursday, January 1st, 2009, 11:30 a.m. Remise of the Üstra, Hanover
New Year's Concert à la Valentin - Mobile Music II
every 15 minutes a rustic march to the recovery of the Small Man with works by
Béla Bartók, Toshio Hosokawa, Mauricio Kagel a.o.
The New Ensemble, directed by Stephan Meier

Thursday, 15th January 2009, 8 p.m. Glockenhaus Lüneburg
Neue tun:es III
compositions by Béla Bartók, Toshio Hosokawa, Mauricio Kagel a.o.
The New Ensemble, Leitung Stephan Meier

Sunday, January 18th, 2009, 11:30 a.m. Staatsoper, Hanover
Thorsten Encke: "Das atheistische Krokodil" for soprano and tenor solo, brass quintet, percussion, piano and Women's Chorus (premier)
Girl's Choir Hanover


Friday, January 30th 2009 till Monday, February 2nd 2009, 12 p.m.
Academy of Music and Theater, Hanover
3. Workshop for Young Composers/Werkstatt Junger Komponisten
Workshops and seminars on composing in the 20th und 21st century, in cooperation with professional musicians from Lower Saxony. Deadline: January 15th, more information: info@musik21niedersachsen.de
Benjamin Lang (artistic direction), Carsten Hennig and Sydney Corbett (guests)

Saturday, February 7th, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Kunstraum/Art Space Tosterglope
Poussier d'étoiles
"Photomaton" with live video and premieres by Elizabeth Adams and Manos Tsangaris
Anna Spina: viola

Friday, February 13th, 2009, Academy of Music and Theatre Hanover, room 202
Time Lupe V
Epitaph for oboe and piano (1979) by Witold Lutoslawski
Nikolaus Kolb, oboe; Christian Schulte, piano
Produced by the Hanoverian Association for contemporary music (hgnm)

Friday, February 20th, 2009, 6 and 8:30 p.m. Forester's house Habichtshorst, Winsen
ZuHören I/ Listening I in Winsen - Listening Between the Lines
Discours about listening science and hearing device acoustics
Concert with compositions by Eckart Beinke: tre voci (2005) for mezzo soprano, accordion and percussion and o.T. (2007) for mezzo soprano und viola
Luciano Berio: naturale (1985) for viola, percussion, tape
Magnus Lindberg: Metal Work (1985) for accordion and percussion
Helmut Oehring: Plath, S (1998/04) for accordion and viola a.o.
oh ton-ensemble Oldenburg

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009, 11:15 a.m., Sprengel Museum Hanover
Klangskulpturen - Mobile Musik III
Compositions by Oliver Schneller: Aqua Vit for eight musicians (1999), Edgard Varèse: Density 21,5 for flute solo, Witold Lutoslawski: Epitaph for oboe and piano (1979), Gérard Grisey: Stéle for two percussions (1995), John Cage: Sculputres Musicales (1989), Jakub Sarwas: Three-O 1, 2, 3 for mixed trio (2005) and Queentet for electronic sounds and ensemble (2008)
Das Neue Ensemble/ The New Ensemble (directed by Stephan Meier)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009, 11:30 a.m./20:00 p.m. FH Osnabrueck
Composers forum
portrait: Benjamin Lang
Institute for Music/FH Osnabrueck

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Academy of Music and Theatre Hanover Concerts in the context of the city twinnings
Concert in cooperation with Trio Epsilon, Rouen (France)
Ensemble Musica Viva Hanover, directed by Hans-Christian Euler

Thursday, April 30th, 2009, 5 p.m. Academy of Music and Theater Hanover, room 202
Time Lupe VI
KAIKU, Mengjia Lin
Laura Pohl - soprano; Vladminier Gorup - accordion; Martin Röhrich - percussion;
Ulrike Böhmer - comments
Produced by the Hanoverian Association for contemporary music (hgnm) within of Musik 21 Niedersachsen

Thursday, May 7th, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Kestnergesellschaft
kestnerconcerts
Incontri - new electronic pieces
Pieces, compositions, installations and improvisations by Yaeko Asano,
David Borges, Yi-An Chon, Jie Da, Daktilde, Vladimir Gorup, Tsung-jen
Hsieh, Damian Marhulets, Gordon Williamson, Haoyu Yuan, Nan Zhang, He
Zhu

In cooperation with Incontri - Institute for New Music at the Academy of Music and Theatre Hanover

Saturday, May 30th till Tuesday, May 2nd, 2009, art space Tosterglope
Little Tosterglope Festival of Pentecost
Final concert on Monday, May 1st
a.o. ensemble baUsTeLLe KUNSTRAUM and school ensemble Bleckede directed by students of the Academy of Music and Theater Hanover with Joachim Heintz, Bremen

Sunday, May 31st and Monday, June 1st, 2009, 8.p.m.
Herrenhäuser Berggarten, Hanover
Mountain Garden Music - Mobile Music IV
by Stephan Meier and John Cage: BRANCHES
Das Neue Ensemble/The new ensemble and Ensemble S

Saturday, June 6th, 2009, 7.30 p.m. Academy of Music and Theater, Hanover
Aus dem Innersten II "l'esprit"
Wolfgang A. Mozart "String Quartet in A major" KV 169
Adriana Hölszky String Quartet "Hängebrücken" (1989/90)
Maren Exner String Quartet (premier)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy "String Quartet in D major" op. 44/1
Nomos Quartet

Sunday, June 14th, 2009, 11:30 a.m. Garden region, Hanover
Musik im Stadtpark/Music in the Park
Music by Japanese and German composers a.o. T. Hosokawa
Ensemble Musica Viva Hanover, directed by Hans-Christian Euler

Thursday/Friday/Saturday, June 18th/ 19th/20th, 2009 Circus S-tent, Winsen
Workshops for school classes (all edges)
Directed by Stephan Meier (percussion and director of Ensemble S)

Friday, June 19th, 2009, 6 p.m. discours, 8 p.m. concert Circus S-tent, Winsen
ZuHören/Listening II in Winsen: Traum vom Raum/Dream from Space
Compositions by Johannes Schöllhorn, Gunter Lege, Pierre Boulez, Arnold Marinissen
Ensemble CIRCUS S

Saturday, June 20th, 2009, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. symposium/book presentation,
6 p.m. concert, Circus S-tent, Winsen
10th anniversary of the composition class for kids and youngster Winsen
Symposium and book about the composing of kids and youngsters in the context of society and culture
Concert: Zuhören in Winsen, Concert III - Was ist ein Gewürz in der Musik?/
What is a spice in music?
Premiers of pieces by the composition class Winsen
Theme: mix of instruments, sound colours, adventures…
Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART

Friday, June 19th till Sunday, June 21st, 2009 Circus S-tent, Winsen
My Music - youngsters festival
Sunday, June 21st, 2009, 5 p.m. CIRCUS S-tent, Winsen
Concert with pupils of the music school Winsen, Seevetal, Buchholz, Lueneburg the primary school Im Borsteler Grund
I. improvisation inspired by "Acustica" by Mauricio Kagel on self made or found instruments
II. Gordon Kampe: information from the gamma quadrant for guitar orchestra, 6 e-guitars, e-bass, 7 percussionists, speaker and instrumental soloists
Production and direction: Ulf Mummert

August 13th -16th, 2009 Garden region, Hanover
Music 21 Festival 2009 "COLORS"
Ensemble L'art pour l'art, Ensemble Musica Viva Hanover, Ensemble Megaphone Hanover, Ensemble S, Das Neue Ensemble/The New Ensemble, VARIO Ensemble a.o. and international guests

July 30th - August 4th, 2009
2nd stage of the Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik

Friday, September 4th, 2009, 6 p.m. discourse, 8:30 p.m. concert
Forester's house Habichtshorst, Winsen
ZuHören in Winsen, Concert IV - Haute Cuisine
discourse: aesthetics of cooking and composing
concert: Robert HP Platz: Kiefer (2008) for bass clarinet and percussion
Dense/Echo I (1996) for flute, clarinet, violine, violoncello and piano
Max E. Keller: Food (1997/99) for percussion
Matthias Kaul: Mezze (2009) for flute, bass clarinet and percussion (premier) a.o.
Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART

Saturday, September 19th, 8 p.m. Sprengel Museum Hanover
Aus dem Innersten III. "La Malinconia"
Ludwig van Beethoven - string quartet B-Dur op. 18/6
Kaija Saariaho (*1952) - "Nymphéa" for sting quartet with live electronic (1987)
Claude Debussy - string quartet g-Moll op. 10
Poems by Arseni Tarkowski
Nomos Quartet

Friday, November 27th, 2009, 6:00 p.m. discourse, 8:30 p.m. concert
Altes Forsthaus Habichtshorst, Winsen
ZuHören in Winsen, Konzert V - Hörspiel / radio play
Discourse: About production and function pf music, sound and noise in radio play
Concert with compositions by Luc Ferrari, Eckart Beinke (premiere)
Matthias Kaul: Arabesken (2004) for flute, bass clarinet, guitar, percussion
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape
Thomas Buckner, Bariton
Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART

Musik der Jahrhunderte
Eclat, Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart

Christine Fischer
Siemenstraße 13
D-70469 Stuttgart
Germany
tel: +49-711-6290510
fax: +49-711-6290516
office@mdjstuttgart.de
www.mdjstuttgart.de  

Musik der Jahrhunderte encourages the new, surprising, and the insecure in music. Its goal is to place contemporary music successfully in public cultural life and prepare the ground for the art of the 21st century. In so doing, we move mostly in unknown territory: numerous world premières dominate our program every year. Musik der Jahrhunderte organizes the international music festival ECLAT in Stuttgart and is otherwise prominent in Stuttgart's cultural agenda with its outstanding concerts and music theater productions. In addition, Musik der Jahrhunderte is responsible for the management of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, as well as supporting the instrumental ensemble Varianti.

ECLAT - Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart (Stuttgart New Music Festival)
5th to 8th February 2009
ECLAT 2009 distinguishes itself through the "monochrome" situations of its concerts, i.e. virtually all events have each been assigned to one composer, along with one of their works. Behind this idea lies the hope of producing a potpourri that does not contain too much variation but maintains a variety of compositional aesthetics. Each concert is filled with one composer, or rather, one compositional language. In addition to concerts with works by Mesias Maiguashca, Walter Zimmermann, Jörg Widmann, Matthias Pintscher, Wolfgang Rihm, Johannes Kretz und Bernd Richard Deutsch musical theater will be emphasized more strongly again with works by Enno Poppe, Elena Mendoza Lopez, Michael Hirsch, José-Maria Sánchez-Verdú et al.
Programme details: www.eclat.org

Sommer in Stuttgart '09 - 16th to 19th July 2009
The third rendition of the Stuttgart summer festival of contemporary music is entirely focused on musical theater. This time all four partners of "Sommer in Stuttgart", apart from Musik der Jahrhunderte also including the SWR (Southwest German Broadcasting Corporation), the Stuttgart State Opera and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, will contribute various scenic concepts to the program. On the 17th of July, Musik der Jahrhunderte will present the German premiere performance of AURA, the new musical theater work by Spanish composer José-María Sánchez-Verdú that will have its wp performance at the beginning of June 2009 in Madrid. The Neue Vocalsolisten and the Ictus Ensemble will perform both concerts; the work is produced by young German-Norwegian director Susanne Øglænd.
Programme details: www.mdjstuttgart.de/sommer

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
2/10 - 20:30, Strasbourg, Festival Musica
Karlheinz Stockhausen : STIMMUNG
14/10 - 20:00, Venezia Teatro alle Tese - Arsenale, Biennale di Venezia
Giacinto Scelsi : Tre canti popolari
Georgers Aperghis : Vittriool
Giacinto Scelsi : Sauh II
Michele Tadini : new work for 4 voices wp
Luciano Berio : A-Ronne
15/10 - 20:00, Venezia Arsenale, Biennale di Venezia
Enno Poppe : Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung
Libretto: Marcel Beyer
Regie und Ausstattung: Anna Viebrock
Graham Valentine, Schauspieler | Omar Ebrahim, Bariton
Musikfabrik
16/10 - 20:00, Göppingen Kunsthalle, In the context of Netzwerk Süd
Karlheinz Stockhausen : STIMMUNG
26/10 - | 20:00, Weimar
Karlheinz Stockhausen : STIMMUNG
3/11 - Milano, Milano Musica
Karlheinz Stockhausen : KONTAKTE and STIMMUNG
Digital Masters Stuttgart
7/11 - Zürich, Tage für Neue Musik Zürich
Beat Furrer: Fama
Ensemble Contrechamps
10-14/11 - Abbaye de Royaumont: workshop contemporary vocal music
Karlheinz Stockhausen : STIMMUNG
16/11 - Wien, Wien Modern: Enno Poppe : Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung
26/11 - 22:00 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Karlheinz Stockhausen : STIM-MUNG
27/11 - 17:00 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Salvatore Sciarrino : 12 madrigali
29/11 - Bordeaux, Proxima Centauri Festival : Karlheinz Stockhausen : STIMMUNG
13/12 - Hamburg: Elliott Carter : Mad Regales
23/12 Paris, Descrizione del Diluvio (2007/08): Musik Mauro Lanza | Video Paolo Pachini
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
2009 with ensemble ascolta
11/1 Stuttgart Musikhochschule: WERKSTATT
Salvatore Sciarrino : 12 madrigali
Andreas Dohmen : infra for 5 voices wp
15/1 Paris with Guillermo Anzorena, Bariton, Ensemble 2e2m
Claude Vivier : Love songs for 6 voices
Enno Poppe : Drei Arbeiter for bariton and Ensemble
Lucia Ronchetti : Le voyage d'Urien for voices and ensemble wp
Enno Poppe : Scherben für Ensemble
5/2 - 20:00 ECLAT Festival New Music
Enno Poppe : Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung
7/2 - 19:00 ECLAT Festival New Music
Visiones - Ficciones (espacios insensatos) a cappella music theatre
Elena Mendoza Lopez : new work for 6 voices wp
Michael Hirsch: La Celestina on "La tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea" for 6 voices wp
José María Sánchez-Verdú: Engel-Studien for 6 voices wp
director Matthias Rebstock, video Steffi Weismann, stage and costumes Sabine Hilscher
19/2 - Gent Work of Bart van Hecke and others
12/3 - Augsburg, in the context of Netzwerk Neue Musik - MEHR MUSIK!
Jennifer Walshe : Anthrax arrangement of the song of Gang of Four for 6 voices
Claude Vivier : Love Songs
Charlotte Seither : One-person-opera
Lucia Ronchetti : Pinocchio, una storia parallela
Guillermo Anzorena, Bariton
18/3 Bruxelles, Ars Musica with Ictus Ensemble: Georges Aperghis : Petrrohl and Vittriool
Oscar Bianchi : Matra for 3 soloists, voices and Ensemble
1/4 - Barcelona, Festival Nous Sons '09
Salvatore Sciarrino: 4 Madrigale aus "12 madrigali"
Gesualdo: 4 Madrigale
José-María Sánchez-Verdú: Engel-Studien
Josep Sanz: Neues Werk UA
Andreas Dohmen: infra
18/4 - 20:00 Monaco, Festival Printemps des Arts with Percussions de Strasbourg
Francesco Filidéi : new work for voices and ensemble
19/4 - 20:00 Hamburg, Im Sog der Klänge with Ensemble Resonanz, Composers Slide Quartet | conductor Titus Engel
Works of Wolfgang Rihm, Georg Friedrich Haas, Cathy Milliken, Bernhard Gander, Hans Leo Hassler, Giovanni Gabrieli and others
24/4 - 21:00 | Porto Casa da Música with Oporto National Orchestra, conductor Michael Zilm
Luciano Berio : Sinfonia
26/4 - 12:00 Porto Casa da Música: Karlheinz Stockhausen : STIMMUNG
12/6 - Paris Cité de la Musique with SWR Vokalensemble, conductor Marcus Creed
Georges Aperghis : Wölfli Kantata
16-19/6 DER SOMMER IN STUTTGART '09
José-María Sánchez-Verdú : Aura (Wp) Music theatre
director: Susanne Øglænd, Sarah Sun, soprano, Truike van der Poel, mezzosoprano, Andreas Fischer, bass, Ictus Ensemble also beginning of June in Madrid Teatro de la Zarzuela

musikFabrik, Landesensemble NRW eV

Thomas Oesterdiekhoff, executive director
Im Mediapark 7
D-50670 Cologne
Germany
t: +49-221-719471940
f: +49-221-719471947
musikFabrik@musikfabrik.eu
www.musikFabrik.org

musikFabrik-for beginners

When posed the question "what could a musikFabrik be?" a clever primary school child answered: "That is where they create music that hasn't been made yet". That basically sums up everything in a nutshell. MusikFabrik has been commissioning new works and performing unknown ones since 1991. It is never just a question of interpretation, but of taking new paths of development. The Cologne-based soloist ensemble has built up a close collaboration with prominent conductors and composers. The ensemble's guest list is as prominent as it is long. It includes Louis Andriessen, Stefan Asbury, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Mauricio Kagel, and Helmut Lachenmann. Zsolt Nagy, Emmanuel Nunes, Peter Rundel, Rebecca Saunders, Wolfgang Rihm and Hans Zender.

Contrary to what its name suggests, the musikFabrik does not have a boss. With its democratic base, the musicians themselves take the responsibility for making all-important decisions. This particularly applies to concert programming, which has shaped musikFabrik's very unique profile. Their programmes consist of interdisciplinary projects that can include: live electronics, dance, theatre, film, literature, visual arts, along with chamber music and the confrontation with works using an open form and improvisation.
The musikFabrik is as open as its mission: To create music that is not there yet.
musikFabrik in WDR

The musikFabrik has been running its wp series in WDR (West-German Radio) since 2003. This series enables us to broaden our artistic horizons, often in close collaboration with the composers we commission. Recent events include: the highly entertaining Vesperbild by Mauro Lanza, the inclusion of live electronics in a premiere work by Michel van der Aa, and the complete Chiffre cycle by Wolfgang Rihm. Information: www.musikfabrik.org

Musikprotokoll
im Steirischen Herbst

Christian Scheib
O.R.F. Landesstudio Steiermark
Marburger Strasse 20
A-8020 Graz
Austria
tel: +43-316-470-28227
fax: +43-316-470-28253
musikprotokoll@orf.at
oe1.orf.at/musikprotokoll

Festival about the state of events in contemporary music: compositions, experiments, impro-visations, research. New works and highlights from recent years. Performed by orchestras, soloists and ensembles. Organized by the Österreichischer Rundfunk in the framework of the festival Steirischer Herbst.

Musikprotokoll Im Steirischer Herbst- October 4 - 12, 2008, Graz Austria
Graz as one of the "European Cities of Advanced Sound" (ECAS for short): That's the name of a project that will be leaving its fi rst marks at the Numusic Festival in Norway's Stavanger and in Graz this autumn. In an exchange with international festivals such as the Berlin Club Transmediale and Futuresonic in Manchester, a musical kaleidoskope will evolve over the next few years ranging between improvisation, electronica and composition. In addition to major concerts, chamber music, and numerous other musical items, a new musikprotokoll programme also kicks off this year: "… as seen from the middle of east …" presents co-operations with artists from i.a. Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine.
Co-produced by steirischer herbst, ORF Radio Österreich 1 & ORF Landesstudio Steiermark In co-operation with ECAS - European Cities of Advanced Sound, Numusic Festival Stavanger, Ny Musikk Rogaland, Festival Interface: Beyrouth - The Beirut of Education, Kunstuniversität Graz, ESC im LABOR & ORF Kunstradio.

4/10 - 19.30 Uhr | Stefaniensaal
Beat Furrer (A) Konzert für Klavier und Orchester ( 2007) ÖE
Bernhard Lang (A) monadologie I für E-Zither und Orchester (2007) ÖE
Bruno Mantovani (F) Time Stretch (on Gesualdo) (2006) ÖE
9/10 - 10.00-18.00 | ESC im Labor: Sebastian Meissner & Serhat Karakayali lost spaces
18.00 | ESC im Labor: Together with Martyn Reed from the Numusic Festival and Oliver Baurhenn from the Club Transmediale, Susanna Niedermayr presents the "ECAS project" (European Cities of Advanced Sound)
19.30 | Generalmusikdirektion: Pål Asle Pettersen (NO) komposisjoner (1998-2008) UA/ÖE
21.00 | Generalmusikdirektion: fru fru it's a small world UA
22.00 | Generalmusikdirektion: Nils Henrik Asheim und Mitglieder des Stavanger Kitchen Orchestra (NO) Kitchen Four UA
23.00 | Generalmusikdirektion: bonaNza The Opposite of Art / The Art of Opposites
a distorted view of Austrian musical heritage UA
10/10 - 10.00-18.00 | ESC im Labor: Sebastian Meissner & Serhat Karakayali lost spaces
18.00 | Minoriten Café: as seen from the middle of east ...
A round of discussions on how European culture is viewed from the inside and outside.
Susanna Niedermayr (A), Christian Scheib (A), Sebastian Meissner (D), Serhat Karakayali (D) & Saed Haddad (JOR)
19.30 | Minoritensaal: Mathias Pintscher (A) on a clear day für Klavier (2004) ÖE
Rebecca Saunders (GB) Duo für Klavier und Violine (1996/99)
Stefano Scodanibbio (I) Wie der Wind es trägt für Streichtrio (2002) ÖE
Bernhard Gander (A) Schöne Worte für Klavierquartett (2007)
22.00 | Minoritensaal: Karim Haddad (RL) Innere Ferne Bass Flöte, Horn, Vibraphon und Harfe (1995) ÖE
Vinko Globokar (SLO) Skelet für Posaune, Akkordeon, Percussion und Quanun (1995) ÖE
Saed Haddad (JOR) Le contredésir für Horn, Klarinette und Cello (1995) ÖE
Yoav Pasovsky (IL) UA Flöte Klarinette, Harfe, Klavier und Schlagzeug (1995) ÖE
Rena Gely (AZ) Dialog mit Mugam für Flöte, Klarinette, Percussion, Klavier, Violine, Viola und Violoncello (2003) ÖE
Samir Odeh-Tamimi (PS) Madih für Ensemble und 4 arabische Instrumente ÖE
11.10 - 10.00-18.00 | ESC im Labor: Sebastian Meissner & Serhat Karakayali lost spaces
10.00 - 18.00 | Murufer: Natasha Barrett (GB/N) Installation: Sand Island
19.00 - 24.00 | Schlossbergstollen: Natasha Barrett (GB/N) Installationen: Kongsberg Silver Mines, Under the Sea Floor
19.30 | Dom im Berg: Franz Hautzinger (A) Trompetenorchesterprojekt Gomberg II Profile
21.00 | Dom im Berg: V-Trike Musik-/Tanzperformance UA
22.00 | Dom im Berg: Los Glissandinos meets AMM plus special guest Burkhard Stangl ÖE
12/10 - 10.00-18.00 | ESC im Labor: Sebastian Meissner & Serhat Karakayali lost spaces
10.00 - 18.00 | Murufer: Natasha Barrett (GB/N) Installation: Sand Island
19.00 - 24.00 | Schlossbergstollen: Natasha Barrett (GB/N) Installationen: Kongsberg Silver Mines, Under the Sea Floor
19.30 | Minoritensaal: Klangwege 2008 Abschlusskonzert
Sung Yong Cheong (ROK) Monolog (2008) UA
[ka:mi] (P) Jenseits des Klanges (2008) UA
Wen-Cheh Lee (RC) Zyklus: Gedichtsammlung vom Leben eines Helden (2008) UA
Petros Moraitis (GR) ex libris (2008) UA
21.30 | Dom im Berg: Oriental Space and 23.00: Natasha Barrett (GB/N) Sub Terra ÖE
See websites for detailed program: www.steirischerherbst.at oroe1.orf.at/musikprotokoll/

Musiques et Recherches a.s.b.l.

Annette Vande Gorne
3, place de Ransbeck
B-1380 Ohain
Belgium
t : +32-2-3544368
f : +32-2-3510094
info@musiques-recherches.be
www.musiques-recherches.org

Musiques & Recherches, located in Ohain, Belgium, is an association whose concentrated efforts focus upon the development of electroacoustic music, more specifically, acousmatic music.
This work is accomplished through:
- the organisation of concerts and of a festival called L'Espace du son
- the creation of competitions
- proposal of concerts
- the invitation to composers to create new work in its studios
- the development of educational programmes in the form of intensive courses and work-shops
- the publication of journals and compact discs
- the development of an archival centre : Electrodoc
- sales of selected recording labels and books
Diary of concerts and festivals
5/10 - 60 ans de musique concreteConcert anniversaire - Bruxelles, Paris, Madrid, Montreal, Cagliari, Vancouver
16-19/10 - L'Espace du Son 2008 ; 15° Festival Acousmatique International
1/11 - Festival MANTIS ; M&R, le CRM et A. Vande Gorne at festival in Manchester
5/12 LA GENERATION ELECTRO at Conservatoire Royal de Mons
13/1 - 16/1/2009 Festival Syntax Perpignan A.Vande Gorne et le studio M&R

The fifth acousmatic composition competition Metamorphoses 2008, which started in March received the largest number of competing works since its creation in 2000: 167 works were received, among which 28 in the students category.
The Preselection Jury (Francis Dhomont, Annette Vande Gorne et Ingrid Drese) retained the following candidates:
in the students category, the First Prize was awarded to Pôm BOUVIER B. (France), for her work Sphuxis in the general category, the following finalists were selected:
- François DUMEAUX (France), for his work Elytres
- Alejandro CASALES NAVARRETE (Mexico), for his work History of Nothing
- Yu-Chung TSENG (Taiwan), for his work Metascape
- Joan BAGES (Spain), for his work Deux poissons japonais électroniques
- Suk-Jun KIM (South Korea), for his work Welcome to Hasla
- Apostolos Loufopoulos (Grece), for his work Icarus

Public final will take place on 16 October 2008 at the Théâtre Marni in Brussels, at the end of which the final jury, the public, and Musiques & Recherches will award the Prizes.
Though not retained for the final, the Preselection Jury awarded mentions to some other works. These are:
- Past Link by Annie Mahtani (UK)
- Arborescences by Aki Pasoulas (Grece)
- Objet Sonore / Objet cinétique by Jon Christofer Nelson (USA)
- Sonans by André Decosterd (Switzerland)
- Epitaxy by Nikos Stavropoulos (Grece)
- Okura by Yoko Higashi (Japan)
- The Maelstrom Method by Volker Hennes (Germany)

Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ
Postbus 1122
1000 BC Amsterdam
Netherlands
tel: +31-20-7882010
fax: +31-20-7882020
post@muziekgebouw.nl
www.muziekgebouw.nl

The Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam opened its doors to the public in the spring of 2005. The spectacular building has become Amsterdam's concert hall of the 21st century, with an exciting, contemporary programme that continually forges links with other eras, styles, cultures and art forms. The Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ shows current musical developments in the form of festivals, thematic projects, multimedia concerts and special series. It has its origins in Muziekcentrum De Ysbreker, which was a leading international centre for contemporary music for twenty-five years.

Donderdagavondserie: 16/10/08-21/05/09
From season 2008-2009, Muziekgebouw aan't IJ presents the new Donderdagavondserie in collaboration with Stichting PROMS and Radio 4. On thirty Thursdays beginning the 16th of October, ensembles from Holland and abroad will present the best of contemporary music. Concerts will form a mirror of the enormous diversity of modern music, including wps and music theatre as well as portrait concerts and special soloists. All concerts will be broadcast live on Dutch Radio 4.
Shift: 18/11/08-21/11/08

As a transatlantic festival, SHIFT is about music, film, literature and fine arts from Canada and The Netherlands. It starts in November 2008 in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ and will continue in February 2009 in Toronto, Canada. Canadian and Dutch people have a special connection since the end of World War II, when a stream of emigrants emerged from The Netherlands to Canada. After 63 years, it's time for an update...

World Minimal Music Festival: 1/4/09-5/4/09
Minimal Music from the 1960s plays a central role at this festival, but it will also be con-nected with its historical, geographical and cultural context. Buganda Music Ensemble will be a guest in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. The members will build several original akadindas, give workshops and perform traditional music for this instrument, which 'resulting patterns' remind to techniques of Steve Reich and others.
See website for extensive contemporary music programme

  See website for extensive contemporary music programme

New Music Festival Arena

Raimonds Melderis,
R. Vagnera 4
LV-1050 Riga
Latvia
tel: +371-6426611
fax: +371-7213488
arenafest@music.lv
www.arenafest.lv  

Yearly festival in autumn, started in 2002. The festival's major lines are as follows: first, promo-tion of new Latvian music; second, the involvement of performers of international standing; third, the invitation of a prominent composer - as a special guest of the festival

New Music Festival "Arena" - October 18 - November 5 2008
18/10 - 7.30pm Riga Great Guild Festival opening concert: www.sinfoniettariga.lvState Chamber Orchestra "Sinfonietta Riga", Conductor: Heinz Holliger
Soloists: Heinz Holliger (oboe), Ursula Holliger (harp), Claudia Barainsky (soprano)
Gustavs Fridrihsons - New work for chamber orchestra wp
Heinz Holliger - "Sechs Lieder nach Gedichten von Christian Morgenstern" for soprano and chamber orchestra
Witold Lutoslawski - "Chantefleurs et chantefables" for soprano and chamber orchestra
Witold Lutoslawski - Double Concerto for oboe, harp and chamber orchestra
23/10 - 7.00pm Riga St. John's Church - Latvian Radio Choir, State Chamber Orchestra "Sinfonietta Riga", Conductor: Heinz Holliger, Soloist: F. Renggli - flute
Heinz Holliger - Frühling II, Eisblumen, Sommer II, Ad Marginem, Herbst III, (t)air(e), Schlaf-gewölk, Winter III
24/10 - 7.00pm Hall "Liela Aula", University of Latvia - TENSO days in 2008
Nederlands Kamerkoor (NL), RIAS chamber choir (GER)
Conductors: Kaspars Putninš, Hans - Christoph Rademann
Hans Werner Henze Orpheus behind the Wire
Peteris Vasks Three poems by Czeslaw Milosz
Luca Francesconi Sea Sell (new comission)
Santa Ratniece horo horo hata hata (world premier)
Olivier Messiaen Cinq rechants
Reiko Füting "weht-umweht"
Gundega Šmite Herbst (wp)
25/10 - 7.00pm Hall "Liela Aula", University of Latvia - TENSO days in 2008
Latvian Radio choir (LV), Nederlands Kamerkoor (NL), RIAS chamber choir (GER) Estonian chamber choir (EE), Cond.: Laurence Equilbey, Jörg Genslein, Kaspars Putninš, Sigvards Klava
Galina Grigorjeva - Nature morte (2008), Latvian premier, Ilo Krigul - Preces ad lucem (2008), Latvian premier, Sofia Gubaidulina - Jezt immer Schnee, Olivier Messiaen Louange a l'éternité de Jésus, Peter Jan Wagemans Three songs by Mallarmé, James MacMillan Mairi, Ruta Paidere A verso l'alto, Steffen Schleiermacher - Ataraxia (world premier)
Alfred Schnittke Three sacred hymns
26/10 - 7:30pm Great Guild Hall: Messiaen and His Students
State Chamber Orchestra "Sinfonietta Riga", Conductor: Normunds ŠNE
Soloists: Peter Donohoe (piano), Vineta Sareika (violin)
Olivier MESSIAEN "Les oiseaux exotiques", Pierre BOULEZ "Dérive 2", Iannis XENAKIS "Voile"
Talivaldis Double Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra
31/10 - 8:00pm/10 - Riga concert hall "mebeles": Concert of electroacoustic music
Benjamin Thigpen - live electronics, A. - live electronics, Woodpecker project, Sinfonietta Riga string quartet Aleksejs Bahirs, Agnese Kannina-Liepina (violins), Liene Klava (viola), Klotinš (violoncello)
B. Thigpen, A. Dzenitis - Stencil of time (world premier), A. Mieze - sakums for string quartet and electronic http://thigpen.free.fr
1/11 - 7:00pm, St. Johns church; Latvian Radio choir, Conductor: James Wood, Soloists: Mindaugas - cello, Ilona Meija - flute, Carl Faia - live electronic
J.Harvey Marahi, Mariuss Baranauskis new comission, J.Harvey Ashes Dance Back for choir and electronic, Summer Clouds Awakening for choir, flute, cello and live electronic
3/11 - 7:00pm, Riga Blackhead`s house; String quartet Arditti (UK): www.ardittiquartet.co.uk
Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan (vlns), Ralf Ehlers (vla), Lucas Fels (vc)
IRCAM computer music designer: Gilbert Nouno, IRCAM sound engineer: Jérémie Henrot
P. Dusapin 5 , H. Lachenmann Grido , S. Ratniece Alveolas, J. Harvey Quartet Nr. 4
4/11 - 8:00pm,and 5/11 - 7:00pm and 9.00pm: The Daile Theatre Small hall -
Electronic chamber music "Press to Play" by Girts Bišs
Latvian Radio Chamber Singers, conductor Kaspars Putninš (Latvia),
director Zane Kreicberga, designer Dzintars Kruminš

November Music

Bert Palinckx, Artistic Director
P.O.Box 11039
NL-5200 EA
‘s-Hertogenbosch,
The Netherlands,
tel: +31-73-6122000
fax: +31-73-6138297
nederland@novembermusic.net 
www.novembermusic.net  

November Music is known as Holland's most important annual contemporary music festival. It focuses on 'the people behind today's music'. This 16th festival presents more than 30 very different productions, most of which are brand new. Irrefutably, November Music is a 'party for people who want to know what's happening now'. The international significance of the programme is evident from the many cross-border collaborative projects. For the first time the festival does not just work with its existing partners in Flanders and Germany but also with festivals in the UK and Italy.
November Music 2008 - 12 - 16 November 2008 www.novembermusic.net

From music box to symphony orchestra.
The eclectic work of maverick composer Richard Rijnvos is the thread that runs through November Music 2008. The Flemish Radio Orchestra will play his 'NYConcerto' for which he recently received the BUMA Toonzetters Award for the best Dutch composition of 2007. Self-evidently his own orchestra, the Ives Ensemble, will also put in an appearance.
In addition, November Music highlights the music of two 'grand old masters' of contemporary (composed) music in Holland, namely Theo Loevendie and Dick Raaijmakers.

Loevendie features as a composer, as the leader of his own ensemble, and as an improvisa-tor. So far, performances of Dick Raaijmakers' work have unfortunately been few and far between and November Music is therefore very proud to present 'De Grafische Methode Fiets' ('The Graphic Method Bicycle'), a reconstruction of an unique performance / installation created in 1979.
The first outcome of the collaboration between November Music and the renowned Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF) is a concert by the English saxophonist and improvisator John Butcher. A world première for a new group that is exclusively made up of top players on the British improvisation circuit. This is the first time that the spotlight is on John Butcher as a composer.
November Music will present three productions in collaboration with the Erasmus Festival, containing work by Theo Loevendie as well as two music theatre pieces, by pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama and by the English composer Param Vir.
Equally unique is the cooperation between the youthful Kryptos String Quartet from Flanders and the world-famous Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam, with first performances by Ruud van Eeten and Stefan van Puymbroeck (Belgium).

Following a successful first edition, November Music has arranged for a second expert meet-ing, together with the BraM, intriguingly entitled 'De noten zijn op' ('No more notes').
In 2008, the first Music Prize by the Prins Bernhard Cultural Fund Brabant will be awarded to the most prominent musical talent in the Dutch province of Brabant.
On the afternoon of Sunday 16 November a veritable explosion of new music will resound through the city of Den Bosch as the fourth KunstmuziekRoute (ArtMusicRoute) gets under way, past a large number of brief and surprising concerts in various locations.

On top of all this November Music 2008 will feature premières and productions by Willem Boogman, Serge Verstockt (Belgium), Marijn Simons, Martijn Voorvelt, Phill Niblock (USA), Thomas Ankersmit, Esther Venrooy, Rob van Rijswijk, Jeroen Strijbos, Guy Livingston (USA), Olivier Nijs, Wouter Snoei, Anthony Fiumara, Kristoffer Zegers, Paul Craenen (Belgium), Aileen Campbell (Scotland), Anne Parlevliet, Wilco Botermans, Sebastiaan Schatz, Vloeistof, Cathy van Eck, Nico Sall (Belgium), Dieter Dolezel (Germany) and others ….
Further information: www.novembermusic.net

Nuova Consonanza organizes a festival of contemporary music each year in autumn with concerts, workshops, lectures. New music from different countries performed by ensembles and soloists. It is interested in cooperations with other organisations.
Workshop: "De Musica ovvero la fabbrica della creatività"
December 1- 6, Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy
The Workshop for young composers from italian and foreign Conservatories, this year is reserved to electronic music, to the elaboration of sound in real time and to the use of computer in contemporary music. It will be conducted by Alvise Vidolin, a pioneer of com-puter music, sound director and interpreter of Live Electronics. He also collaborated with a considerable number of important composers of the 20th century such as Berio, Nono and Guarnieri, but also Donatoni, Clementi and Sciarrino.


Festivals: 45th Festival of Nuova Consonanza - 23rd - December 15th, 2008, Rome, Italy
The 45th Festival will present performances with electronic music, concerts on the interac-tion audio-video, new compositions written on poems by J.L. Borges.
Competitions: XI Composition Competition "Franco Evangelisti" - Deadline: October 18th, 2008
Tis year is dedicated to audio-video interaction. The Competition is open to composers of any nationality and any age. The scores should be for instrumental ensembles consisting of:
1 Flute (also piccolo and flute in G), 1 Clarinet (also bass clarinet), 1 Violin,1 Cello, 1 Piano.
The overall duration of the work should be the same as that of the video chosen by the com-petitor from those made available by Nuova Consonanza and downloadable in low or high definition on the following website page: "http://www.nuovaconsonanza.it/concorso"
The Competition will be completed by December 2008 with a public concert during the 45th Festival of Nuova Consonanza in which the final scores will be performed. At the end of the concert, the jury will announce the winning composition.
- The Prize of Competition consists in Euro 3.000, broadcast by RAI Radio3 and publishing by Edizioni Suvini-Zerboni.
- The compositions presented could have been performed in public but they not have won in other competitions
- entry fee: the entry fee is euro 50 for each composition.
- anonymous submission
- Scores will not be returned they remain in the Archive of Nuova Consonanza

Nuova Musica Consonante

Liana Alexandra & Serban Nichifor
Str. Rosia Montana nr 4
Bloc O5, scara 4, apt.165
RO-060955 Bucharest
Romania
tel: +40-1-772.3029
serbannichifor@pcnet.ro  
lianaalexandra@pcnet.ro  
RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com www.geocities.com/novacons2001/classic_blue.html

Concerts,workshops and conferences about the computer music and multimedia realized by Liana Alexandra, Serban Nichifor and Robert Voisey(New York).

Nuovi Spazi Musicali

Ada Gentile
Via Divisione Torino 139
I-00143 Rome
Italy
tel/fax: +39-06-5021208
ada.gentile@tin.it
www.adagentile.it   

Organizes a Festival of contemporary music every year in autumn with concerts and meet-ingconcerts (with young composers and young performers). It is interested in exchange with other organisations.

29th Festival di Musica Contemporanea Nuovi Spazi Musicali" October 6 - 23, 2008, Rome
Artistic Director : M.o Ada Gentile
6/10 - 20.30: Paul Klee String Quartet (Italy) and Jean Pierre Armangaud- pianist - (France)
Works by H.Dutilleux, T.Escaich, G.Baggiani (at Palazzo Farnese, Piazza Farnese, Roma)
9/10 - 20.30: Noriko Kawai -pianist- (England). Works by A.Morricone. I.Fiorini, G. Kùrtag, J.Dillon, J.Weir, T.Simaku, J,Stringer, H.Birtwistle. (at Hungarian Academy, Via Giulia 1, Roma)
13/10 - 20.30: Peter Schuback - cellist - (Sweden) Works by S.Sagvik, M.Maros, L.Nilsson, P.Schuback, L.Gregoretti, G.Guaccero , P.Rotili (at Hungarian Academy, Via Giulia 1, Roma)
16/10 - 21.00: Duo Bowman-Sollberger, guitar and flute (USA)
Works by K. Broberg, H.Sollberger, M. Babbit, Y.Haber, P.Cavallone, A.Ciccaglioni, S.Corbett, F.Evangelisti. (at Villa Aurelia, Porta S.Pancrazio 2, Roma)
20/10 - 20.30: Duo Stump-Lishalm - clarinetts - (Austria)
Works by A.Hay, B.Furrer, L.Wennakoski, I.Szeghy, G.Scelsi, C.Ambrosini, E.Marocchini, M.Hòllos. (at Hungarian Academy, Via Giulia 1, Roma)
23/10 - 20.30: Pendercki String Quartet (Canada) Works by L. Catlin Smith, J. Kiri Palmer, A.Gentile, R. Piacentini, A.Louie C.Penderecki. (at Polish Institute of Culture, Via V.Colonna 1,Roma)

Ny Musikk

Lars Peter Hagen
Platous gate 18
0190 Oslo
+47 21996800
nymusikk@nymusikk.no
www.nymusikk.no   

Ny Musikk is the Norwegian section of the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) and works to promote contemporary music in Norway and Norwegian contemporary music abroad. The organization was founded by the female composer Pauline Hall in 1938, achieving national status in 1970. Among its many tasks, Ny Musikk provides information about contemporary music for the culturally orientated community at large, and is active as a representative for contemporary music in Norway. Membership is open to all with an interest in contemporary music. Ny Musikk arranges 15-20 concerts troughout the year, the annual festival Happy Days (www.happydays.no), seminars and other activities throughout the country, often collaborating with local branches and other organizations or institutions. Ny Musikk is a founding member of the Ultima Festival in Oslo.
Ny Musikk's activities autumn 2008:
17/8, ICMF Stavanger/Tou Scene: Ellen Fullman: Long String Instrument in concert
www.touscene.com, www.icmf.no
19/8, Ny Musikk/Norwegian Academy of Music: Ellen Fullman, seminar www.nmh.no
22/8, Ny Musikk/Trefoldighetskirken, Oslo: Ellen Fullman: Long String Instrument in concert
27/8, Ny Musikk/Ishavskatedralen, Tromso: Ellen Fullman: Long String Instrument in concert
28/8 - 7/9., Ny Musikk/Black Box Theatre, Oslo: Don Carlo: Infanten. Music theatre directed by Susanne Ogland. www.blackbox.no
11-13/9, Kanonhallen, Oslo): Welcome to Paradise. A Requiem. Kristin Norderval
11/10: Ny Musikk/Black Box Theatre/Ultima Festival: Music Theatre. Ane Lan, Cinnober The-atre, Ning, Nils Bech, Oyvind Torvund, Trond Reinholdtsen
4/11, Ny Musikk/Chat Noir: Ny Musikk 1938-2008. An entertainment show by Bodil Furu and Trond Reinholdtsen, directed by Kai Johnsen
22/11, Ny Musikk/Oslo City Hall: Benedict Mason: Music for Oslo City Hall (wp)
December, Ny Musikk/ an Oslo church: Christina Kubisch

NYYD International Music Festival
Eesti Kontsert

Madis Kolk
Estonia Ave.4
EE-10148 Tallinn
Estonia
tel: +372-614-7700
fax: +372-614-7709
info@concert.ee
www.concert.ee

The State Concert Institute Eesti Kontsert organises 800-900 concerts annually in Estonia and abroad, encompassing a wide musical range including symphonic and chamber music, contemporary music, jazz and non-European music.

Eesti Kontsert holds concerts in schools and outdoors, in many other chamber halls all over Estonia, offers concert series for rural municipalities, music institutions and local concert arrangers across the state. Among the ranks of Eesti Kontsert are two internationally renowned groups of musicians: the Estonian National Male Choir and early music consort Hortus Musicus.
Eesti Kontsert organises yearly international music festivals, such as pianists' festival KLAVER (PIANO), new music festival NYYD, "Glasperlenspiel", Baroque music festival, Tallinn Organ festival, festival "Orient", Pärnu Opera Days, contest for young musicians "Con Brio" etc.
Eesti Kontsert manages the largest multi- purposed concert halls in Estonia: Estonia Concert Hall in Tallinn, Vanemuise Concert Hall in Tartu and Pärnu Concert Hall. All the halls men-tioned, seat approximately one thousand people, have good acoustics and are furnished with modern interiors and the latest technical equipment.
X1 NYYD '09 - International New Music Festival, October 2009, Tallinn
Festival Artistic Directors: Erkki-Sven Tüür, Olari Elts, Madis Kolk

Ostrava Center for New Music

Kristyna Zelinska
Dr. Smerala 2
70200 Ostrava
Czech Republic
t: +420-59-6203426
f: +420-59-6203426
info@ocnmh.cz
www.ocnmh.cz

Ostrava Center for New Music [OCNM] was founded in 2000 to organize Ostrava Days - New Music Institute and Festival. Since 2003, OCNM has also produced concerts and tours with Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra and Ostravska banda (appearing at the MaerzMusik festival Berlin, Paris Conservatory, Carnegie Hall, Prague Spring Festival, among others). Publications produced by OCNM include The Beginnig of New Music in Prague 1959-64 [in Czech] with contributions by Petr Kotik, Rudolf Komorous, Peter Kolman, Marek Kopelent and Ladislav Kup-kovic and Ostrava Days Report (01, 03, 05 & 2007-in printing) with major texts by Ostrava Days lectors Christan Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Petr Kotik, Tristan Murail, Louis Andriessen, Kaija Saariaho and Muhal Richard Abrams, among others, and a 37-min Ostrava Days 2007 Documentary DVD.

Ostrava Days is a three-week working environment that gives young composers and musi-cians the opportunity to work with leading personalities in new music. It includes 35 students who interact with lectors and guests in an open-ended manner, in group sessions as well as one-on-one situations. The focus is on working in orchestra format, with two resident orchestras: the large symphony orchestra Janacek Philharmonic and the chamber orchestra Ostravská banda, comprised of musicians from Europe and USA. Ostrava Days Festival is organized in the last week and includes 14 concerts. OCNM is an independent nonprofit organization with offices in Ostrava, Czech Republic and New York City.
Ostravská banda 2008 Concert Tour
23/10 University of Katowice, Cieszyn, Poland
24/10 Svatováclavský festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic
27/10 Archa Theatre, Prague, Czech Repubic
29/10 Akademie der Kûnste, Berlin, Germany
02/11 Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
Compositions to be performed:
Sebastian Claren: Potemkin I: Baby Baby
Morton Feldman: For Franz Kline
Petr Kotík: John Mary
Galina Ustwolskaja: Symphony No. 5 "Amen"
John Cage: Concert for Piano and Orchestra
Martin Smolka: Oh My Bellowed C Minor
Elliott Carter: Dialogues
Louis Andriessen: La Passione

Ostrava Days 2009 - August 10 - 30, 2009, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Student Application Deadline: March 1, 2009
Working language: English
Location: Janacek Conservatory, Ostrava; Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava
Orstrava Days 2009 will focus on large-scale works for orchestra, including compositions for 3 orchestras. Seminars and performances will focus on the work of visiting lectors, including broad inquiry into the place of computers in composition. Compostions by students will be performed as an integral part of the festival. The program will include works by Morton Feld-man, Christian Wolff, Galina Ustwolskaja, Charles Ives, John Cage, Karlheinz Stoskhausen, Wolfgang Rihm, Christian Claren, Petr Kotik, Michael Schumacher, Gyorgy Ligeti, Salvatore Sciarrino and others.
For up-to-date information, please visit www.ocnmh.cz

Organizes 3 projects:
1. The Summer Courses for Young Composers in Radziejowice, held annually, first two weeks of September
2. The Kazimierz Serocki International Composer's Competition, held every three year. The competition is open to composers of all nationalities without age limit. Submitted works should not be previously performed or published. Three prizes are awarded and the works are performed at an ISCM concert.
3. Warsaw Arts Festival
Winners of the Kazimierz Serocki 11th International Composers' Competition 2008
We would like to announce the results of the Kazimierz Serocki 11th International Compos-ers' Competition 2008. The Jury:Zygmunt Krauze (Poland) - Chairman, Stephen Montague (The Great Britain/USA), Vladimir Scolnic (Israel) and Walter Zimmermann (Germany) has choosen the winners.
The list of winners:
The First Prize sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage - 15.000 PLN (approx. 4.000 Euro) has won Marios Joannou Elia (Cyprus) for Versteckspiel
The Second Prize sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage - 10.000 PLN (approx. 2.800 Euro) has won Fernando Abel Maglia (Argentina) for Los Secretos del Silencio.

Polish Society for Contemporary MusicISCM - Polish SectionAnna Dorota Wladyczkaul. Mazowiecka 11PL-00-052 WarsawPolandt: +48-22-8276981f: + 48-22-8277804ptmw@epistola.pl,www.ptmw.art.pl
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The Third Prize sponsored by the Society of Authors ZAiKS - 6.000 PLN (approx. 1.700 Euro) has won Iluminada Pérez Frutos (Spain) for Instants of Eternity.
The Fourth Prize sponsored by the Polish Radio Channel 2 - 5.000 PLN (approx. 1.400 Euro) has won David Philip Hefti (Switzerland) for 6 Pieces for 4 players (String Quartet nr 3).
PWM Edition's Special Prize for the Youngest Winner - the complete set of CD's and scores "Masterpieces of Polish Music in the 20th Century" has won
Elia Marios Joannou (Cyprus).
The decisions of the Jury are final. The awarded compositions will be performed at the 26th October 2008 in Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Hall, at a special concert organised by the ISCM Polish Section, European Penderecki Centre for Music and Polish Radio Channel 2. The concert will be broadcast live and offered to all members of the European Broadcasting Union.

Rikskonserter
The Swedish Concert Institute

Björn W Stålne, director
Nybrokajen 11
SE-111 48 Stockholm
Sweden
tel: +46-8-4071600
fax: +46-8-4071650
bjorn.stolne@ rikskonserter.se
www.rikskonserter.se  

- actively promotes Western art music of the last 50 years, mainly chamber music, electro-acoustic music and multimedia,
- organizes concert tours, the concert series Nutida Musik (Contemporary Music) at Nybro-kajen 11 and the festival Stockholm New Music,
- supports pedagogical development projects and international projects,
- commissions music compositions.

ISCM World New Music Days 2009 in Sweden: Visby - Växjö - Göteborg
September 24 - October 4 www.listentotheworld.se
The 2009 edition of ISCM World New Music Days will be held in Sweden between Sep-tember 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.

Spaziomusica

Marcello Pusceddu, President
Via Liguria 60
I-09127 Cagliari
Italy
tel.: +39-070-400844
fax: +39-070-485439
info@festivalspaziomusica.it
www.festivalspaziomusica.it  

Since 1982 the Spaziomusica Association organises a festival with a yearly cadence entirely dedicated to contemporary music: this year 14 concerts, in autumn (November/December), mostly in Cagliari and also some date in others localities of Sardinia. Each edition of the festi-val is developed around a specific theme. Besides the concerts, the program includes lectures and seminars. The Festival is organised by means of the financial support of the Dipartimento dello Spettacolo dal vivo - Ministero dei Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Provicia di Cagliari and Comune di Cagliari

Festival Spaziomusica 2008 - October 2 - 10, Cagliari, Italy
2/10 Cripta di San Domenico - 21.00 Mathias Reumert, Works by giovani compositori danesi
3/10 T-Hotel - 10.00 Inizio lavori ECPNM, Introduction di H. Erdmann
15.00 Ripresa lavori ECPNM
18.00 Tenores di Bitti - Pomeriggio musicale con la tradizione della Sardegna
21.00 Cripta di San Domenico - Dark Project, ensemble multimediale; Works by M. Pusceddu, A. Doro, F. Oppo, F. Casti, proiezioni video di M. Casanova e M. Cualbu
4/10 T-Hotel - 10.00 Gita Archeologica a Barumini
15.00 Ripresa lavori ECPNM
18.00 Luigi Lai, launeddas - Pomeriggio musicale con la tradizione della Sardegna
21.00 Cripta di San Domenico: Ensemble strumentale Spaziomusica, Riccardo Leone, dir. "Praxodia" opera da camera su testo di Agostino Neto di Franco Oppo, in collaborazione con "Arcipelago di Musiche e Culture" di Gavoi (NU)
5/10 T-Hotel - 10.00 Relazione soci ECPNM
18.00, Chiusura lavori ECPNM a cura di Henk Heuvelmans
<18.00 Totore Chessa. Organetto diatonico: Pomeriggio musicale con la tradizione della Sardegna
21.00, Cripta di San Domenico - Aleph Ensemble: works by autori francesi e italiani
6/10 Cripta di San Domenico - 21.00 : Quadrivium Duo, Pablo Montagne, chitarra e dispositivi Alessandro Tomassetti, percussioni
works by G. Battistelli, F. Romitelli, G. Francia e B. Hamilton miniature musicali su temi Jazz-Rock commissionate a E. Matusciello, G. Verdinelli, G. Nonnis, A. Saba, C. Cabiddu, E. Cocco, M. Mulas, M. Angioni
7/10 Sassari, Sala Sassu, - 21.00 : Quadrivium Duo, Pablo Montagne, chitarra e dispositivi Alessandro Tomassetti, percussioni; works by G. Battistelli, F. Romitelli, G. Francia e B. Ham-iltoin collaborazione con il Conservatorio L. Canepa di Sassarin miniature musicali su temi Jazz-Rock commissionate a E. Matusciello, G. Verdinelli, G. Nonnis, A. Saba, C. Cabiddu, E. Cocco, M. M
8/10 Sassari, Sala Sassu, - 21.00
Dark Project, ensemble multimediale
Works by M. Pusceddu, A. Doro, F. Oppo, F. Casti, proiezioni video di M. Casanova e M. Cualbu, in collaborazione con il Conservatorio L. Canepa di Sassari
9/10 Cagliari, Cripta di San Domenico - 21.00
Ensemble PromoZICO
Works by giovani compositori del'Est europeo
10/10 Cagliari, Cripta di San Domenico - 21.00
Cathy van Eck with works by Cathy van Eck

STIM - Swedish Music Information Centre

Roland Sandberg
Box 27327
SE-102 54 Stockholm
Sweden
tel: +46-8-7838800,
fax: +46-8-7839510
swedmic@stim.se
www.mic.stim.se  

The Swedish Music Information Centre, the Swedish Performing Rights Society's (STIM) information and documentation center for 20th and 21st century Swedish music. Our aim is to promote the performance of copyright-protected Swedish music. We try to fulfil this aim by making the music more easily available, primarily as sheet music but also through various forms of information and promotion. Here you can find information about composers and their music and buy copies of Swedish works in manuscript, as well as copies of older Swedish popular music which publishers can no longer supply. Publishing department: Edition Suecia. Record label: Phono Suecia

Nordic Music Days - the festival for contemporary music from the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - will this year take place in Helsinki, Finland, October 2nd - 5th
The festival theme is "music plus one", i.e. concerts where music is combined with other ele-ments of art. Composers from Sweden taking part are Fredric Bergström, Anders Emilsson, Ida Lundén, Kent Olofsson, Marie Samuelsson, Patric Simmerud, Mattias Svensson, Leilei Tian, and Fredrik Österling. For detailed programme see www.nordicmusicdays.com/2008

Time of Music

Mr. Tapio Tuomela
Keskitie 10
44500 Viitasaari
Finland
tel: + 358 (0)14-573 195
fax: +358 9 4541 1630
info@musiikinaika.org
www.musiikinaika.org

Organizes an international new music festival annualy in the first half of July.

Time of Music Festival 2008 Time of Music Festival in Finland is the oldest yearly event of classical contemporary music in Nordic countries, established by the composer Jukka Tiensuu in 1982. The festival takes place during the first week of July at Viitasaari, a little town situated on an island in Central Finland lake area. The program focuses on music written by living composers for soloists or ensembles up to chamber orchestra size and the. Most of the concerts are performed in local churches and schools, with the exeption of yearly open air concerts in the abundant lake surroundings of the area.
Along with top Finnish artists, the festival invites regurarly international soloists and ensembles (MusikFabrik, Neue Vokalsolisten, Diotima Quartet, etc.). The list of composers-in- residence invited to the festival to lead its composition seminar include Cage, Xenakis, Eötvös, Kagel, Lachenmann, Ferneyhough, Harvey, Holliger, and Aperghis, among others.
The Finnish composer Perttu Haapanen took over the artistic direction after the 2008 festival.
The dates of the 2009 festival are July 7-12 and the themes will include contemporary music inspired by folklore, with commissioned works for originally folkloric plucked instruments like the koto, cymbalum, and kantele. The festival musicians will include top Finnish and European artists, with the Spanish SMASH Ensemble as the biggest foreign group.
The programme of the 2009 Time of Music Festival will be published in March 2009 at www.musiikinaika.org

Ultima Festival Oslo Contemporary Music Festival

Geir Johnson
Kongensgate 4
N-0153 Oslo
Norway
tel: +47-22-429999
fax: +47-22-424218
info@ultima.no
www.ultima.no

Union of Bulgarian Composers

Velislav Zaimov
2, ul. Ivan Vazov
BG-1000 Sofia
Bulgaria
tel: +359-2-9881560
fax: +359-2-9874378
mail@ubc-bg.com
www.ubc-bg.com   

Aims: The Union of Bulgarian Composers is a non-profit creative association. One of its main objectives is to promote the creation, distribution and popularization of new music and specially Bulgarian musical works. One of the most significant initiatives of UBC is the annual "New Bulgarian Music Review", which includes stage and symphony works, vocal, choral, chamber, children works and pop music.

History: The Union of Bulgarian Composers is successor of the "Contemporary Music" Soci-ety, established on January 24, 1933 by the most distinguished Bulgarian composers who laid the foundation of the national music style. In 1947 it was renamed Union of Bulgarian Composers, Musicologists and Concert Artists and since 1954 has become Union of Bulgar-ian Composers. UBC is divided in Composer's Section and Musicologist's Section. Now there are 160 composers in the Union of Bulgarian Composers who work in different musical genres and 80 musicologists who work in the field of the Bulgarian and foreign music. Execu-tive Board since 2005: Velislav Zaimov (President), Stefan Iliev (Secretary General), Dimitar Nikolov (President of Artistical Fund), Prof. Atanas Atanassov, Prof. Marin Valtchanov, Prof. Petar Liondiev, Miroslav Danev, Angel Kotev, Veska Tzinandova.
More details see: www.ubc-bg.com

Warsaw Autumn

Tadeusz Wielicki
Rynek Starego Miasta 27
PL-00 272 Warsaw
Poland
tel: +48-22-8310607 / +48-22- 635 9138
fax: +48-22-8310607
festival@warsaw-autumn.art.pl  
www.warsaw-autumn.art.pl  

The Warsaw Autumn (Warszawska Jesien) is a festival with a long historyan enormous tradition, and can be called a witness to history. It is the only festival in Poland on an international scale and with an international status, dedicated to contemporary music. For many years, it was the only event of this kind in Central and Eastern Europe. It is still, however, a living organism: it develops and thrives to the extent that the Polish cultural budget (0.33 %) and the general state of music allow it to. The Festival is organized by the Polish Composers' Union (Zwiazek Kompozytorów Polskich). The Repertoire Committee, which is in turn appointed by the Board of the Union, determines the program of each particular festival.

51th Warsaw Autumn Festival
September 19 - 28, 2008, Poland
This year's 51st International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn" (19-27 September 2008) is largely devoted to the music of composers from Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Two different programs - symphony and chamber - including the music of Spanish and Polish artists, will be presented by the Radio and Television Orchestra from Madrid, conducted by Arturo Tamayo. We will also have the ensembles: Barcelona 216 and Plural from Madrid, as well as Sond'Ar-te Electric from Lisbon - a group which marvellously combines instrumental music with electronics.
The Festival will also be visited by famous flamenco musicians: the guitarist Juan Manuel Cañizares and the cantaor Arcángel. During their first concerts in Poland the two soloists will present pieces by Mauricio Sotelo.
Two highlighted composers at this year's "Autumn" are Mauricio Sotelo and Jose Maria Sánchez-Verdú - original artists combining the modern language of sounds with the tradi-tion of flamenco, Arabic and Jewish music, so strongly present in the culture of the Iberian Peninsula. The pieces presented by Sánchez-Verdú will include Maqbara, which he com-posed for orchestra and the voice of another famous singer Marcel Pérès, who specialises, among others, in interpreting Roman church plainsong of the medieval Spain under the Arab rule. We can hear both the piece and the singer during the Festival's final concert.

Other interesting and unusual events include: a football match (Mexico vs. Brazil, 1999 FIFA championship), imitated by the sound of the orchestra (Enrico Chapela's Inguesu during the opening concert); The Memory of a Looking Glass - an installation by Andrea Pensado and Greg Kowalski, enabling everyone in the audience to compose their own audio-visual piece with a laser remote control device; and Kwartludium and beatboxers project (a contemporary music instrumental quartet accompanied by TikTak and Zgas as soloists in a specially prepared, premiere repertoire, including pieces by young composers from Poland, Argentina and Mexico).
The concert at Torwar Hall, devoted to Karlheinz Stockhausen in connection with the composer's 80th birthday anniversary, will include Cosmic Pulses - electronic music which makes an unusually powerful impression - as well as Michaels Reise from Donnerstag opera. But most importantly, the electronic Hymnen with orchestra will be presented at the former factory "Koneser". This late-1960s work - visionary and still very relevant in the uniting world - transforms national anthems of more than a hundred countries and melts them into one integral composition, which lasts 130 minutes. Hymnen will be prepared during a ten-day workshop by the European Workshop for Contemporary Music - an orchestra composed of young Polish and German musicians, under the patronage of "Warsaw Autumn" and the German Music Board. The workshop and the concert will be conducted by Pedro Amaral. Bryan Wolf will be in charge of the electronic sound projection. They are Stockhausen's long standing collaborators and specialists in his music. After their "Warsaw Autumn" performance, the orchestra will present Hymnen at the Italian festival Milano Musica and in Pforzheim, Germany.
Traditionally, "Warsaw Autumn" will present wps of pieces commissioned by the Festival. This time they will include chamber compositions by Polish and Ibero-American artists.
As usual, the following orchestras will participate in the Festival: Warsaw Philharmonic - National Orchestra of Poland (this year led by the sensational young conductor Krzysztof Urbañski) and National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk). Other ensembles include: MusikFabrik from Cologne, Seattle Chamber Players, saxophone Sonic Art Quartett from Berlin and Aleph Gitarrenquartett, also from Berlin.
Tabea Zimmermann, a violist of worldwide renown will come to the Festival.

Wien Modern
Musik der gegenwart

P.O.Box 140
A-1037 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43-1-7121211
fax: +43-1-7122872
wienmodern@konzerthaus.at
www.wienmodern.at 

Following an initiative of Claudio Abbado, since 1988 international composers, artists, inter-preters and ensembles have been invited to present the wide variety and artistic creativity in the world of sound. Wien Modern is a festival of contemporary music - and also provides a platform for Modern Dance, new visuals, texts and film. Since 1988 international composers, artists, interpreters and ensembles have been invited here so that all the different artistic facets connected to the world of sound can be experienced. Wien Modern is a festival of con-temporary music - and also provides a platform for Modern Dance, new visuals, texts and film.

Wien Modern 08 - Contemporary Music Festival
October 26 - November 16, 2008
To download the program www.wienmodern.at/vorl/WIEN_MODERN_2008.pdf

Zeit für Neue Musik

Herrn H.Bieler
Humboldstrasse 10
D-95444 Bayreuth
Germany
tel: +49-921-67211
fax: +49-921-555053
bielerhelmut@compuserve.de  

Organizes an annual concert series with contemporay music in June