THE MEMBERS AND THEIR ACTIVITIES 2007/2008



This is the annual Calendar of European New Music Events, produced by the ECPNM. The Calendar covers the activities of its members during the concert season 2007/2008. Further updates of the information of the members can be found at the web sites of the members themselves.

 


 


ACDA - Association pour la Création et la Diffusion Artistique

Claude Samuel, President
3 rue des Couronnes
F-75020 Paris
tel: +33-1-40334535
fax: 33-1-40334538
acanthes@wanadoo.fr
www.acanthes.com 


ACDA ‘s aim is to organize, coordinate and promote artistic activities, especially creation of new works; in addition, she aims in this respect to develop the formation of the professionals, in particular in the framework of the international Competitions of the Paris City and Center Acanthes. In just over two decades the Centre Acanthes has become a revered symbol of contemporary composition. Launched at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1977, it has since 1987 been linked to the Avignon Festival. Above all, the Centres Acanthes sets out to teach young musicians about contemporary music. Adopting an innovative approach, it centres its activities around leading modern composers, who each lead different sessions. - The Centre Acanthes is held each July for a period of two to three weeks, in the magnificent fourteenth-century monastery, the Chartreuse, in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon. - Workshops are run by an entire team, as the guest composer is assisted by a group of musician-teachers, chosen by common accord to perform and analyse his works. - Alongside the workshops, a series of concerts are held, at which the works of the guest composer hold pride of place, performed by the musician-teachers as well as ensembles or orchestras. These concerts are included in the official programme of the Avignon Festival.

The next competitions in the framework of the ‘Concours internationaux de la Ville de Paris’ are 2007: 17-26/9 - Concours d’orgue (organ) 25/11-3/12 - Concours Olivier Messiaen for contemporay piano and Concours Lily Laskine for harp 2008: Concours Jean-Pierre Rampal for flute will held in Paris form September 23th to October, 4th 2008 You can check the rules, details of the programme and registration form on our web site (information now in French and in English, will be in Japanese first days of January): www.civp.com


Aspekte Salzburg

Salzburger Gesellschaft für Musik

Klaus Ager
Lasserstrasse 6
A-5020 Salzburg
Austria
tel: +43-662-881547
fax: +43-662-881547-15
office@aspekte-salzburg.at
www.aspekte-salzburg.at/  

Annual contemporary music festival in spring


Association Thélème Contemporaine

Hélène Planel
Grises
F-26740 Savasse
France
tel/fax: +33-4-75460349
helene.planel@free.fr
tc2.free.fr   

Creation - diffusion - training in electroacoustic and computer music.

Founded in 1986, Thélème Contemporain has been involved in musical creation in the domain of Contemporary music and specially in electroacoustic or computer music : mixte music, interactive music, multimedia performances, sound environments…

Last productions are :
- 4 Hands, a multimedia duet (http://tc2.free.fr/4hands/)
- live ciné-concerts with Trio USB-Sax (http://tc2.free.fr/USB-SAX/) - MuZiclotron, an interactive visual and sound installation (http://tc2.free.fr/muziclotron/)
- DTS 5.1 CD production and demo-concerts (http://tc2.free.fr/CD51.html)
- French computer music actors diary : research or artistic teams (http://tc2.free.fr/AnnuIM.html)

Contact: Hélène Planel (helene.planel@free.fr)

 


Avantgarde Tirol

Internationale Akademie für Neue Komposition und Audio-Art

Marianne Penz-van Stappershoef
Innsbrucker Straße 35 b, 21
A-6130 Schwaz, Tirol
Austria
t: +43-676-5518767
fax: +43-5242-61199
office@avantgarde-tirol.at
www.avantgarde-tirol.at 

Avantgarde Tirol is the organising body of the "International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art", held annually in Schwaz from 1993 until 2000. In 2005 the ‘Akademie’ moved from Schwaz to Seefeld in Tirol.

avantgarde tirol 2007 - 11th International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art August 19 - September 2, 2007, Seefeld in Tirol

The International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art offers concentrated tuition in composition and Performance Art. Tuition and practical experience is offered in the following fields: - Instrumental composition, (Boguslaw Schaeffer; Salzburg/Krakow) - Audio-Art: (Edwin van der Heide; Rotterdam) The International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art was founded by Marianne Penz-van-Stappershoef in Schwaz/Tirol in 1993. From 1993 to 2002 more than 60 talented composers from five continents took part in the Academy in Schwaz. In 2005 the Academy moved from Schwaz to Seefeld in Tirol. The Seefeld Plateau, with its friendly population and overwhelming natural beauty will provide an inspiring setting for the artistic activities of the Academy.

avantgarde tirol 2008 - 12th International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art August 22 – September 5, 2008, Seefeld in Tirol

‘avantgarde tirol’ is the organising body of the “International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art, held annually in Seefeld in Tyrol, Austria. In 2008, the Academy will be held in the Building of the Ski Jumper´s Center in Seefeld in Tyrol from August 22th until the 5th of September. The most promissing composers will be chosen from the applicants to attend this advanced Postgraduate Academy in Seefeld in Tirol. The concentrated training in composition and Performance that the International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art has offered in Tirol for many years (since 1993) is a unique undertaking. The training is structured with clearly defined goals, and contains distinctive elements such as Audio-Art, seldom found on other composition courses. Tuition and practical experience in instrumental composition (Prof. Boguslaw Schaeffer -Salzburg – Krakow) and lectures in Audio-Art (Edwin van der Heide) come together at this Academy to create a project that transcends the accepted boundaries of conventional composition courses. During the Academy, the participants will be instructed in newest composition techniques. All composers will be required to write a completely new work within the short period of 14 days. 4 outstanding soloists – they also teach at the Academy - are available for consultation. The new works will be performed by 4 outstanding international performers at the final concert that is part of the Festival avantgarde tirol 2006.

How to apply - Composers up to the age of 30 who wish to participate in 2008 in the class of Prof. Boguslaw Schaeffer (Instrumental Composition) are kindly invited to contact avantgarde tirol for application forms. - Application forms can also be downloaded from our homepage www.avantgarde-tirol.at .

Please contact office@avantgarde-tirol.at and return:
1. - 3 completed forms,
2. - a score of a recent composition,
3. -one cd’ with own music, to the office of avantgarde tirol.

- Composers and Audio-Artists up to the age of 30 who wish to participate in 2008 in the class of Prof. Edwin van der Heide (Audio - Art) are kindly invited to contact avantgarde tirol for application forms. - Application forms can also be downloaded from our homepage www.avantgarde-tirol.at . Please contact office@avantgarde-tirol.at and return:
1. - 3 completed forms,
2. - CDs, DVDs and Videorecordings of own works

- The deadline for sending in these scores, audiovisual materials and forms is February 29, 2008. However, as in previous years, applications for 2009, 2010 etc. may already be sent to our office, too.

Boguslaw Schaeffer and Edwin van der Heide will make the selection and decide which composers will be invited to Seefeld in Tyrol to participate in the 12th International Academy for New Composition and Audio – Art 2007.

Grants: Grants can be provided by the society avantgarde tirol.


Budapest Music Center Kht

Adrienne Mankovits, programme director
Lónyay u. 41
H-1093 Budapest
Hungary
tel: +361-455 8071
fax: +361-2106908
eszter.vida@bmc.hu
www.bmc.hu

Budapest Music Center (BMC) was established in 1996, and its main aim was to create a Hungarian music database on contemporary music, jazz and classical music which is available free to everyone through the Internet. In 2002 the database got a new structure, the information site was redesigned, and the content of the database is expanding countinuously. In the next few years BMC is going to develop a multimedia library where all records and scores of Hungarian contemporary compositions can be found.

 


CDMC/ Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea

Jorge Fernández Guerra, director
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
C/Santa Isabel 52 (Atocha)
E-28012 Madrid, Spain
tel: +34-91-4682310 / +34-91-4682931
fax: +34-91-5308321
cdmc@inaem.mcu.es
cdmc.mcu.es    

 
This body forms part of the National Institute for the Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), which is an Autonomous Body attached to the Ministry of Culture. The CDMC is entrusted with creating and implementing activities aimed at boosting the development of contemporary musical creation. In fulfilling its remit, it has traditionally staged a series of concerts in Madrid, the city where the body is based, as well as managing the Music Festival of Alicante and the Laboratory for Computer-Based and Electronic Music (LIEM). At the same time, it has a series of collaboration agreements with different institutions, mainly through the auspices of the Spanish Regional Governments. It also takes part in specific measures with different institutions, such as the Cervantes Institute, the Youth Institute (INJUVE), the Spanish College in Paris, La Casa de Velázquez, etc.

 

XXIII Alicante Music Festival 2007 September 20-29, 2007, Alicante As is the case every year since the event was founded in 1985, the Music Festival of Alicante prepares a veritable fiesta of musical creation: world premières (many of them commissioned by the Festival itself), the latest trends, special spotlights on up-and-coming regions of influence, etc. All of these aspects have made this event the most important in Spain within its specialised field over a period of 23 years.


Composers Association of Macedonia (SOCOM)

Soni Petrovski
Maksim Gorki 18
MK-91000 Skopje
Macedonia
tel/fax: +389-2-3119824
socom@mol.com.mk 
 

SOCOM is founded in 1947 and is the main organiser of the contemporary music life in Skopje and Macedonia. It conists of over 40 members (composers, musicologists and ethnomusicologists). It is the organizer of the contemporary music festival "Days of Macedonian Music" held annually in March, and organizer of many other concerts, meetings, and other contemporary music activities in Macedonia. SOCOM is also a publishing house and has published over 20 cd’s, magazines, scores and books on contemporary music.


Concorde contemporary music ensemble

Jane O’Leary
1 Avondale Road
Highfield Park
Galway, Ireland
tel: +353-91-522867
fax: +353-91-582153
concorde@eircom.net
www.concorde.ie 

Concorde specialise in the performance of new music. Founded in 1976, performances take place in a regular series at the Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, throughout Ireland and at international festivals. Instrumentation features flutes, clarinets, violin, cello, accordion, piano, soprano, percussion. Projects include working with guest performers, commissioning of new work from both Irish and international composers, exchanges with other ensembles, promotion of young Irish composers, international performances.


2007/2008 - Concorde present performances at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, performing informally in exhibition spaces, inviting close contact between musicians and listeners. These sessions run continuously over a 3 hour period and feature new commissions and premieres as well as established repertoire. - Concerts also take place in the regular series of Dublin City Gallery: the Hugh Lane Gallery where new works for larger ensembles are presented. - In the current season, Concorde perform in Norman Villa Gallery, Galway with new commissions by Irish composers Grainne Mulvey, Ben Dwyer, Deirdre McKay and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly in the context of a specially curated exhibition on a musical theme. - Concorde take part in the festival Sincronic in Catalonia in October and participate in educational programmes at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama.

International submissions from composers welcome Proposals and submissions from composers, performers and promoters always welcome. The ensemble consists of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, accordion, piano, soprano, percussion with occasional guests.


Contemporary Music Centre Ltd

Eve O’Kelly, director
19 Fishamble Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 8,
Ireland
tel: +353-1-6731922
fax: +353-1-6489100
info@cmc.ie
www.cmc.ie  

The Contemporary Music Centre is Ireland’s national archive and resource centre for new music, supporting the work of composers throughout the Republic and Northern Ireland. The Centre is used, nationally and internationally, by performers, composers, promoters and members of the public interested in finding out more about music in Ireland. Its library and sound archive, open to the public free of charge, contain the only comprehensive collection in existence of music by Irish composers.. 

 

2007 - CMC will participate in Dublin Culture Night on September 14th 2007 with performances by composer/musicians Ian McDonnell, Francis Heery and Muttermal. The artists will perform improvised rhythms, beats and sounds.

- On 28th September a public workshop will be held in the Galway Education Centre at which the ConTempo String Quartet will work on three new compositions by Irish composers Ed Bennett, Rob Canning and David Flynn. This is part of New Music Connects, a collaborative project between the Contemporary Music Centre and the Galway Ensemble-in-Residence. These new works will then be performed on 2nd December in the National Gallery in Dublin at 3pm and on 4th December in the Museum in Galway at 1pm.

- CMC will host a series of musical performances, as part of their salon series. The first of these performances will be by cellist Kate Ellis on the 27th of September, continuing with Electroacoustic Revue (EAR) Ensemble on 25th October and concluding with pianist Ivan Ilic on 22nd November.


Croatian Composers Society

Sanda Vojkovic
Berislaviceva 9
HR-10000 Zagreb
Croatia
tel: +385-1-4872370
fax: +385-1-4872372
info@hds.hr
www.hds.hr   

Croatian Composers Society (HDS) is a modern and well-equipped professional organisation which gathers around 200 regular members and 3500 associate members (composers, musicologists, publicists...). Its primary aim is further promotion of musical life in Croatia and the recognition of Croatian music at home and abroad. Organizer of the Music Biennale Zagreb, Publishes Cantus Magazine

The CCS is responsible for several musical events of utmost importance: the Music Biennale Zagreb, representing not only a window to the contemporary world of music, but also a breakthrough in world musical trends; the Days of Croatian Music, focus primarily on Croatian musical heritage, and the International Music Festival is dedicated to certain musical problems or achievements and includes the participation of various ensembles, soloists and experts in different fields from Mediterranean countries, as well as from countries of the Alpne-Danube-Adriatic region. Apart from these festivals, the CCS is also responsible for festivals like Zagrebfest, the International Jazz Days and the Spring Jazz Festival.


The next Music Biennale Zagreb will be held in 2009


Dartington International Summer School

Rebecca Rickard
The Barn, Dartington Hall
Totnes, Devon TQ9 6DE
U.K
tel: +44-1803-847080
fax: +44-1803-847087
info@dartingtonsummerschool.co.uk
www.dartingtonsummerschool.co.uk  

Dartington International Summer School is a five-week summer school and festival offering a wide range of musical courses for participants of all ages and abilities.

The Summer School offers around 30 courses a week and three concerts a night in Dartington's mediaeval Great Hall. There are specialist composition courses including film music and advanced composition plus a wide range of courses studying contemporary music of all genres. Bursaries and scholarships are available. All instruments, all ages and abilities are welcome.


Donaueschinger Musiktage

Armin Köhler
c/o SWR2 Neue Musik and Jazz
Hans Bredow Strasse
D-76530 Baden-Baden
Germany
tel: +49-7221-9292247
fax: +49-7221-9292177
donaueschingen@swr.de
www.swr.de/swr2/donaueschingen/  

Festival of contemporary music. Many new works by composers from all over the world, commissioned by the Südwestfunk. Also attention for musical installations, jazz and crossovers, radiophonic works and performances. Exhibition of scores, books, CDs.

 

Donaueschingen Festival 2007 19th - 21st October, 2007 Once again, unusual performance techniques and full houses will undoubtedly be hallmarks of this year’s Donaueschinger Musiktage. The programme features 26 world premieres by artists from 11 countries. - There will be two concerts by Ensemble Modern, who will be presenting new works by Alex Buess, Arnulf Herrmann, Edgar Reitz/Johannes Kalitzke, James Saunders and Hans Thomalla. For our ensemble workshop we are pleased to welcome ensemble recherche, playing works by Francesco Filidei, Pär Frid, Michael Pelzel, Francois Sarhan and Simon Steen-Andersen. - The interpretative constant of the festival is found in the excellent orchestral concerts of the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg and the SWR Vocalensemble Stuttgart. Under the direction of Sylvain Cambreling and Rupert Huber, the ensembles will be premiering works by Mark André, Klaus Huber, Makiko Nishikaze, Helmut Oehring, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Enno Poppe and Hans Zender. - Sound art will be especially present this year, with projects from Stefan Fricke, Kristof Georgen, Marc Sabat/Lorenzo Pompa, Erwin Stache, Trimpin and Mario Verandi. The jazz sessions will bring together groups led by Bernhard Lang and Elliott Sharp. - Concerts for orchestra with the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg and the SWR Vocalensemble Stuttgart. Works by Mark Andre, Klaus Huber, Makiko Nishikaze, Helmut Oehring, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Enno Poppe und Hans Zender - Ensemble concerts with the Ensemble modern under the Direction of Johannes Kalitzke. Works by Alex Buess, Arnulf Herrmann, Edgar Reitz/Johannes Kalitzke, James Saunders, Hans Thomalla und Philippe Manoury

Ensemble workshop with ensemble recherche Works by Francesco Filidei, Pär Frid, Michael Pelzel, Francois Sarhan & Simon Steen-Andersen

Sound Art Projects by Stefan Fricke, Kristof Georgen, Marc Sabat/Lorenzo Pompa, Erwin Stache, Trimpin & Mario Verandi

Jazz concerts Bernhard Lang, Elliott Sharp, Hans Koch, Fredy Studer, Philip Jeck, DJ Todd, LaTasha Diggs, Burkhard Beins, Boris Baltschun, Serge Baghdassarians

Student workshop “The next Generation” his year, following the great success of the student workshop in 2006, we are once again offering 200 workshop places for students under the title ‘Next Generation’, now with an expanded range of activities. In keeping with the previous workshop, there will be a forum for young composers not yet in the Donaueschingen ‘canon’ to present and discuss their own ideas and works. We will also offer two concerts with student works at the Musikhochschule Trossingen, admittance to concerts at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, discussion rounds with festival artists and much more. Once again the workshop will begin on 17 October with a merry party at the F.F. Brauerei.



Donemus

c/o Music Center the Netherlands
Rokin 111
1012 KN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-20-3446060
Fax.: +31-20-6733588
info@muziekcentrumnederland.nl
www.muziekcentrumnederland.nl

Donemus is the national institution in the Netherlands for composed contemporary music. Our organization supports and promotes this repertoire with the distribution and availability of audio material, and the publication and documentation of musical works. Additionally, Donemus ensures the cultural legacy with its optimal information resources, promotion and the active processing of the professional market.

The Music Publisher:

Donemus is publisher of works by Dutch composers or composers closely associated to musical life in the Netherlands. The catalogue includes to date the work of some 500 composers with more than 10.000 works. The Donemus book catalogue includes titles on Dutch composers present and past. Additionally, composers’ brochures with biographies, discographies and composition lists are frequently published.

Music Information Center.

The library of the Music Information Center (MIC) includes the complete Donemus publishing fund and a collection of Dutch sheet music for amateurs. This catalogue is accessible online. The MIC provides information on Dutch musical life and has access to biographies, composition lists, reviews, program notes and articles on Dutch composers. Additionally the library has a large collection of music journals, bibliographies and other reference works and an extensive collection of music recordings and videos of contemporary Dutch music.

 


Ensemble Aleph

Hélène Jarry
21 Rue Fructidor
F-71100 Chalon-sur-Saone
France
t: +33-03-8548 9441
f: +33-03-8593 5820
ensemble.aleph@ wanadoo.fr
ensemble.aleph.free.fr

Ensemble Aleph, born in 1983 and still in good health, is a partnership of soloists in a flexible formation, an ensemble of musicians united by their enthusiasm for living theatre, innovators who want to serve composers and explore new ways to relate sound and text, movement and music

5th International Forum for Young Composers - Call for scores Wishing to go on exploring new and varied musical styles and aesthetics, the Ensemble Aleph organizes the Fifth International Forum for Young Composers. The Forum aims to promote artistic exchanges between composers and performers.

Composition Guidelines: - Submitted works should be of maximum 7’ duration, and should be scored for 5 to 7 musicians from the following line-up (the performances are undirected): Monica Jordan - Soprano (Voice range: F 2 - H 4), Dominique Clément - Clarinet (A, B flat, E flat, bass, contrabass), Lutz Mandler Trumpet, piccolo trumpet, - Alp horn, didgeridoo (clic here for tessiture), Noëmi Schindler - Violin, Sylvie Drouin - Piano or chromatic accordion, or Synthesiser Fatar SL 880 - 88 keys and Sampler Akai S 2002. NB: 2 of these instruments can be included in the same piece, Christophe Roy - Cello , Jean-Charles François Percussion - 10 works will be selected in February, 2008, possibly including 2 mixed pieces; associating electronics to the musicians - Entries must be postmarked by December, 31st, 2007. Please enclose a CV and complete contact details (birth date, address, phone, fax, e-mail) with your application. - Age limit: 40 years old (born after January, 1st, 1968) - A reading panel, formed by the members of the Ensemble Aleph, will select the musical works (the list will be available on the website on March, 2008). - The 10 selected composers will be the guests of a residency in July 2008 for music sessions with the Ensemble Aleph. This summer session will end with a preview concert. A Logbook, including the recording of the 10 pieces will be distributed to the audience before each concert. The 10 musical works will be performed at the Theatre Dunois in Paris and in at least 6 European countries.


EULEC - (European Live Electronic Centre)
Fortbildungszentrum für Neue Musik Lüneburg

Prof. W. Helmut Erdmann
An der Münze 7
D-21335 Lüneburg
Germany
tel/fax: +49-4131-309390
erdmann@neue-musik-lueneburg.de
www.neue-musik-lueneburg.de   

Main topic of the activity in Lueneburg is live-electronics, to create compositions with voice/instrument and electronic. In the international study week and the festival young composers are working with international interpreters on this topics. The weekend courses are dealing with the diploma course ‘Neue Kompositionstechniken’ and besides this also interpreters can learn to work with voice/instrument and electronics.

The following activities are planed in addition to the International seminar week for contemporary music.

- Festival new music Lueneburg and weekend courses 2008.

- Experimental sound-explorations in schools and music schools - Live-electronic projects, workshops with students - Development of the further diploma course Neue Kompositionstechniken (already placed at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg) in cooperation with the University of Lueneburg, the Stichting Centrum voor Electronische Muziek (CEM), The Estnische Musikakademie (EMA) Estland and the University of Würzburg.

Weekend courses, Lueneburg - New music, computermusic, live-electronic

Prof. Helmut W. Erdmann, Claus-Dieter Meier-Kybranz 2007: 19-20/10, 16-17/11, 14-15/12 2008: 18-19/01, 8-9./02, 15-16/02, 4-5/04, 11-12/04, 25-26/04, 23-24/05, 6-7/6, 4-5/07, 10-11/10, 21-22/11, 19-20/12.08 Topic: Electronic Musik/Live electronics. Live electronics as subsection of composition (areas electronic music/computer music) understands itself mainly as practical discipline. The practice area completed with discussions historically and more theoretically background as by concerts. In the practical work become modulation -, effect devices of different type - similar and digital with instrument/voice and Synthesizern, - sound extensions experimentally tests. The supply with possibilities of experimental video work is extended.

30th Lueneburg International Seminar Week for Contemporary Music April, 27 - May, 4 , 2008, Germany

International lecturer team. In concerts, seminars and Workshops presents the 30.th International seminar week presents tendencies of new music, focusing the sound extensions of voice/instrument with the help of electronic media. Composers, music scientists, interpreters, users and listeners take part on a discovering journey into the fascinating sound world of new music today.

34th Festival Neue Musik Lueneburg October, 12 - 19, 2008, Germany New music at the museum - 2008: 20/01, 14/02, 10/04, 19/06, 20/11

Under the directorship of Professor Helmut W. Erdmann the “Museum für das Fürstentum Lüneburg” offers a series of concerts under the title ‘Neue Musik Im Museum’. The concerts are held in cooperation with the “Fortbildungszentrum für Neue Musik Lüneburg”. The innovative idea is building relationships between new music and objects of the museum. The aim is to create current links between past and present times within an historical environment.


European Centre for the Arts Hellerau

Sibylle Kühl
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 56
D-01109 Dresden
Germany
tel: +49-351-2646218
fax: +49-351-2646223
kuehl@KunstForumHellerau.de
www.KunstForumHellerau.de

Organizer of annual festival Dresdner Tage der Zeitgenössische Musik in October."
All kinds of 20th century music.


21. Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik September 24 - October 7, 2007

Theme: Musik and Philosophy

24/9 - 7/10 - 14:00 - 22:00: Line 8 Streetcar; meta.stasen. Stadt | Klang | Körper | Fluss, audiovisual Installation in a special streetcar line 8 Dresden - Hellerau by Georg Klein

29/9-1/10 - 20:00; Festspielhaus Hellerau. WP of Niebla, Musictheater by Elena Mendoza-López and Matthias Rebstock after a novel by Miguel de Unamuno

2/10 - 20:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Oberlichtsaal; Zwischenwelten. Kailash-Trio makes music with the images of by Nicholas Roerich

3/10 - 20:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Großer Saal; Der Klang des Logos. ‘Five hilosophic Cantates’

4/10 - 20:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Großer Saal; Jubilee Concert - 10 years of ensemble courage

5/10 - 10:00 - 17:00: Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Aula; Colloquium - ‘Hören und Denken - Musik und Philosophie heute’

5/10 - 20:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Großer Saal; audible traces. musikFabrik in Hellerau

5/10 - 22:00; Festspielhaus Hellerau, Oberlichtsaal; WP of Wittgenstein. A collage about ‘mathematical thinking and feelingüber’ after texts by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Max Dehn

6/10 - 10:00 - 17:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Oberlichtsaal; Colloquium ‘Hören und Denken - Musik und Philosophie heute’

6/10 - 20:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Großer Saal; Sound Images. Klavierquintette zu sechst und eine israelische Retrospektive

6/10 - 22:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Seitenbühne; Generator.x , microscope session

7/10 - 11:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Oberlichtsaal; Grenzflächen. Ensemble ‘El perro andaluz’ of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden

7/10 - 20:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Großer Saal; Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik

7/10 - 22:00: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Oberlichtsaal; Film and Musik. A preview of the 22nd Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik of 2008


Exposition of New Music
Brno International Music festival


Pavla Spurná
c/o ARS/KONCERT s.r.o.
Uvoz 39
CZ-602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
tel: +420 543 420 957
fax: +420 543 420 951
svabova@arskoncert.cz
www.enh.cz

Exposition of New Music may also be described as a music-ecological festival. Its purpose is to extend the understanding of contemporary music movements and its historical roots and confront them with Czech musical tendencies. In the Czech context it represents a unique enterprise in its kind as well as its topical extent. The NME was introduced in the 1960s and established as an annual event in the 1990s in an attempt to help contemporary music followers to familiarise themselves in certain symptomatic trends and be able to evaluate different creative procedures.

A brief overview of previous events: Chaos and Communication (scientific findings in art - 1997), Unexpected Encounters (search for new relationships - 1998), Apocalypse Now? (seers, prophets, utopians, and we-all - 1999), Czech Accent (Czech music emphasized - 2000), Spring glory (Rites of the Spring in the New Millenium - 2001), Roots in Rock (experimental development of former rock musicians - 2002), We and the World: Looking for the common language (2004) and The Way of Reduction (how the reduction of musical means affects the concept of music and how rich and colourful image it displays - 2006), and the last one in March 2007 “NO A...!” Non-Academic Approach”.


Federazione CEMAT

Gisella Belgeri, President
Via Orazio, 31
I-00193 Rome
Italy
t: +39-06-6880-9222
f: +39 06 6880 9340
info@cematitalia.it
www.cematitalia.it


Federazione CEMAT (Music Art Technology - Federation of Italian Electroacoustic Music Centers), was founded in 1996 with the purpose of promoting the activity of italian computer music research and production centers. The Federation does not replace the centers in their normal activities, and its function is not that of a coordination center. Its function is rather to realize a useful rallying point for independent centers in the field of computer music research, creation and education. In 1999 the Italian Ministry of Culture recognized CEMAT as Institution for National Contemporary Music Promotion.

Federazione CEMAT has the following tasks: - the promotion and organization of conferences, study seminars and workshops on scientific - musical themes - the support of Italian Electroacoustic Music Centers in all negotiations with national institutions - the promotion of electroacoustic and computer music - the support of activities of young musicians - the promotion of Italian New Music abroad with the support of Ministry for Foreign Affairs (SONORA Project).

 


Festival Forfest Kromeriz

Václav & Zdena Vaculovicov
Artistic Initiative Czech Republic
Kojetínská 1425,
CZ-767 01 Kromeriz
Czech Republic
tel: +420-634-24316
forfest@quick.cz
www.kromeriz.cz/forfest/  

International Festival of contemporary arts with spiritual orientation, each year in June: 8 days with concerts, exhibitions, workshops, and lectures, with local and foreign artists. Presentation of young composers and creative artists. Portraits of wellknown artists.

 

XIX th Festival Forfest Czech Republic 2008 June 21 - 29, 2008, Kromeriz

21/6 - 5 p.m. - Assembly Hall of the Chateau: Artistic meetings - Slovak Republic - United States of America: Elena Letnanova - piano, Dolly Kessner - piano, Daniel Kessner - flute. Works by Roman Berger, Daniel Kessner, Richard Toensing - 8 p.m. - St. Maurice Church: Nicolas Zourabichvili, France - Messe de Saint-Georges. Choir and soloists of Brno Conservatory, CZ, Soprano - Stella Maris, France, Baritone - Tomas Krejci, CZ, Conductor - Gabriela Tardonová, CZ - 10 p.m. - St. Maurice Church: Stella Maris, France- soprano recital. Works by contemporary France authors 22/6 - 4 p.m. - St. Maurice Church: Opening Day. Polyphony Association Nové Mesto nad Metují, CZ - choir concert. Works by Petr Eben, Petr Vaculovic - 6 p.m. - St. Maurice Church: Romanian Days - Ensemble Archaeus Bucharest, Romania. Liviu Danceanu - Exercitions of admiration - 8 p.m. - Assembly Hall of the Chateau: Opening Concert. Romanian Days - Ensemble Archaeus Bucharest, Romania. Works by Liviu Danceanu, Liviu Marinescu

23/6 - 1 p.m. - Town Hall: Press Conference to Opening of Festival - 4 p.m. - St. Maurice Church: - Ruth Forsbach, Germany - organ concert. Works by Jürg Baur, Karl Michael Komma, Henning Frederichs, Volker Bräutigam, Oskar Gottlieb Blarr - 6 p.m. - Gallery Artus: Iosif Haidu, Romania - contemporary paintings - 8 p.m. - St. Maurice Church: Richard Kravchak, Julia Heinen, USA, - oboe, clarinet - recital. Works by William Toutant, Daniel Kessner. Liviu Marinescu

24/6 - 10 a.m. - The Chateau Garden - Chinese Pavilion. Contemporary Greek art: Works by Ryo Noda, interactive music, dance, painting, free Improvisation - 3 p.m. - Museum of Kromeriz - Chateau Chropyne: Transparency - Exhibition of Czech artists for Los Angeles. With cooperation of the Union of Visual Artist Olomouc. Artists: Zdena Höhmová, Michaela Klimanová, Bozena Rossí, Eva Trizuljaková, Miroslava Trizuljaková, Jan Jemelka, Karel Rossí, Tomás Rossí, Pavel Slegl, Petr Stepán, Marek Trizuljak, Václav Vaculovic, Petr Zlamal - 4 p.m. - Concert Hall of the Conservatory: Presentation of California State University, USA. Daniel and Dolly Kessner, USA - flute, piano - 8 p.m. - Concert Hall of the Conservatory: Jan Skrdlík, CZ - violoncello recital, Petra Besa Pospísilová, CZ - piano. Works by Jan Novak, Jiri Matys, Ilja Zeljenka, Dmitrij Sostakovic - 10 p.m. - Concert Hall of the Conservatory: Presentation of California State University, USA, - workshop. Richard Kravchak, Julia Heinen, USA, - oboe, clarinet. Works by William Toutant, Daniel Kessner, Liviu Marinescu

25/6 - 10 a.m. - The Chateau Garden - Chinese Pavilion. Samuel Erenberg, Santa Monica, California, USA- multimedia performance. - 4 p.m. - Museum of Kromeriz: Presentation of Louisiana State University, USA - workshop. Works by Dinos Constantinides, Alejandro Argüello, Theofilos Sotiriadis, Mary Loftus, Christopher Prosser, Reid Willis, Gisselle Eastman - 6 p.m. - Museum of Kromeriz: Theofilos Sotiriadis, Greece- saxophone, Ariadni Mikou, Greece - dance, Lena Athanassopoulou, Greece - video art, Panayiotis Goubouros, Greece - animation, Christos Laskaris, Greece - designs - 8 p.m. - St. Maurice Church: Duo Messieri-Selva, Italy, Massimiliano Messieri - live electronics, Michele Selva, Italy - saxophones. Works by S.Bussotti, M. Messieri, G. Scelsi 26/6 - 10 a.m. - Chateau Garden - Pompeii Colonnade. Sound performance of guests of festival - 5 p.m. - Concert Hall of the Conservatory. Miloslav Istvan, CZ - Author’s concert - Sonatas, Zuzana Beresová, CZ - piano, Pavel Budrych, CZ - violin - 8 p.m. - Concert Hall of the Conservatory Jaroslav Stastný, CZ - Author’s concert

27/6 - 10 a.m. - Garden Atelier: Kromeriz studios - Garden Atelier. Flavia Devonas, Switzerland, - interactive multimedia performance - 3 p.m. - The Flower Garden Jiri Janda, CZ - performance. Sam Erenberg, USA - performance, installation - 5 p.m. - Concert Hall of the Conservatory EA Trio Persona, Portugal, Natálie Grossmannová - flute, Filipe Freitas - oboe, Joana Vieira - piano. Works by Jan Grossmann, Ian Clarke, O. Messiaen, F. L. Graça, S. Azevedo - 8 p.m. - Concert Hall of the Conservatory EA: Stepánka Kutmanová, CZ - violoncello, Eduard Spácil, CZ -piano. Works by Dmitrij Sostakovic, Kurt Anton Hueber, Samuel Barber - 10 p.m. - Sala Terrena of the Chateau - Chateau Garden: Andreas Kröper - Flavia Devonas, Switzerland, - “Musikseismograf” Music - Rhythm - Movement- Painting. Works by Andreas Kröper, Flavia Devonas

28/6 - 10 a.m. - Chateau Garden - Chinese Pavilion: Sound performance of guests of festival - 3 p.m. - Rotunda of the Flower Garden: Vít Zouhar, CZ - Author’s concert. - 6 p.m. - Bishop Garden of Chateau: Petr Matuszek - Markéta Dvoráková, CZ - baritone, mezzo-soprano. Works by Bohuslav Rehor, Mark Kopytman, Petr Pokorný, Giacinto Scelsi, Markéta Dvoráková, Alois Pinos, Ivo Medek, John Cage - 8 p.m. - Assembly Hall of the Chateau: Moravian Madrigalists, CZ - choir concert. Works by Theodor Wiprud, Maurice Ravel, Isa Krejcí, Radek Dockal, Bohuslav Martinu

29/6 - 2 p.m. - St. John Baptist Church: Frantisek Emmert - Author’s concert, CZ - Violin works, Milan Pala - violin, CZ - 5 p.m. - Museum of Kromeriz: DAFO Quartet, Poland, Contemporary Poland authors - 8 p.m. - St. Maurice Church: Final Concert. Schola Benedicta Prague, CZ. Works by Michal Rataj, Vincent Rigot, CZ - organ, Stepán Skoch, CZ - saxophone


Fondazione Isabella Scelsi

Nicola Sani, President
Via San Teodoro 8
I-00186 Rome
Italy
tel: +39-06-69920344
fax: +39-06-69920404
fondazione@scelsi.it
www.scelsi.it

Promotes and studies the work of Giacinto Scelsi, organizes festivals and concert series and publications about his work

 


Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian

Music Department
Luis Pereira Leal
Avenida de Berna 45-A
P-1067-001 Lisbon
Portugal
tel: +351-21-7823000
fax: +351-21-7823041
musica@gulbenkian.pt
www.musica.gulbenkian.pt  

Organisation with its own orchestra, choir and dance company. Different concert series (also classical music and dance), in past years featuring composers such as Stockhausen, Boulez, Nono, Elliot Carter, Xenakis, Ligeti, Kurtág, Berio, Kagel and Nunes.

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - 2007-08 6/10 -- Remix Ensemble, Gulbenkian Choir, Peter Rundel cond.. Miguel Azguime - Circundante Circunstância dos Círculos*, Emmanuel Nunes, Duktus , Épures du Serpent Vert II 7/10 - Ensemble Modern, Frank Ollu cond. Emmanuel Nunes, Wandlungen, Épures du Serpent Vert IV** 25 & 26/10 - Gulbenkian Orquestra, Pascal Rophé cond, Antonio Rosado pf, Miguel Borges Coelho pf.. New Portuguese music for piano and orchestra (I). Isabel Soveral, Paradeisoi**, Sérgio Azevedo, Concerto for two pianos and orchestra 1 & 2/11 - Orquestra Gulbenkian, David Alan Miller cond, Antoine Tamestit vla, Ana Telles pf. New Portuguese music for piano and orchestra (II)João Pedro Oliveira, Abyssus ascendens ad aeternum splendorem**, Sofia Gubaidulina, Concerto for viola and orchestra 1/12 - Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling cond, Sabine Lutzenberger S. The New Austrians. Olga Neuwirth, Spazio elastico, Georg Friedrich Haas, new work tba, Bernhard Lang, Die Steine des Hungers

2008 1/3 - Nash Ensemble: In the 100th anniversary of Elliott Carter. Thomas Adés, Catch or Court Studies, Elliott Carter, Scrivo in vento, Oliver Knussen, Cantata for oboe and string trio, Elliott Carter, Sonata for cello and piano, Esprit rude/ Esprit doux, for flute and clarinet, Oboe Quartet, Canon for 4 2/3 - Remix Ensemble,Peter Rundel cond. Pink Velvet’ Bad Trip. David Horn, new work, Vitor Rua, new work, Fausto Romitelli, Professor Bad Trip, Lesson III, Wolfgang Mitterer, new work 30/3 - Remix Ensemble, Franck Ollu cond, Angel Gimeno vl, Pedro Amaral, Spirales, Frédéric Durieux, 3 pour 2, Tristan Murail, L’Esprit des dunes, Pascal Dusapin, Quad (in memoriam Gilles Deleuze) 17 & 18/4 - Orquestra Gulbenkian, Lionel Bringuier cond, Dame Evelyn Glennie perc. John Corigliano, Concerto for percussion and orchestra * Portuguese premiere, commission by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ** World premiere, commission by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

 


Gaudeamus c/o Music Center the Netherlands

Henk Heuvelmans
Rokin 111
1012 KN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-20-3446060
Fax.: +31-20-6733588
info@muziekcentrumnederland.nl
www.muziekcentrumnederland.nl

   

As a renowned center for contemporary music, Gaudeamus now Music Center the Netherlands organizes and promotes contemporary musical activities and concerts both in The Netherlands and abroad. Founded in 1945, now Music Center the Netherlands focuses on supporting the career development of young composers and musicians through its library facilities, contacts with international organizations, and its own activities.

International Gaudeamus Music Week 2008 September 1 - 7, 2007, Amsterdam The annual International Gaudeamus Music Week focuses on music by young composers. The jury, comprised of Peter Swinnen, Michael Daugherty and David Dramm, selected thirteen works -out of more than 320 entries written by composers from fifty different countries from all over the world for performance during the festival. After listening to performances of selected scores during the Music Week, the jury awards the Gaudeamus Prize for the best composition. The International Gaudeamus Music Week is a unique event, which not only supports young composers but also informs the world about young people’s new music. Program see website

International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition, Amsterdam The next International Gaudeadamus Interpreters Competition, for performers of contemporary music, will be organised from 18 - 26 april 2009. 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 concerts will take place

Contemporary Music Concerts and Festivals Music Center the Netherlands also supports and organizes contemporary music concerts and festivals in numerous countries. Our special projects include courses on and by composers, master classes, lectures, 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 Documentation Center for Contemporary Music Music Center the Netherlands houses a library which is a documentation center and a study center also for contemporary music. It offers an extended collection of scores, auditory materials, information on composers, and current periodicals. The library comprises more than 40,000 scores and 50,000 recordings by 20,000 composers.


Grame

James Giroudon & Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou
9, Rue du Garet
BP 1185
F-69202 Lyon Cedex 01
France
tel: +33-472073700
fax: +33-472073701
grame@grame.fr
www.grame.fr  

GRAME, Centre National de Création Musicale does constantly welcome performers, composers and researchers. Associated with the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Grame offers in Lyon and in Rhône-Alpes region, a concert season, with the intense days of the biennial Musiques en Scène festival, and also other initiatives of diffusion within national and international events. In the field of computer music Grame research laboratory’s object is both basic and applied research, focused on today’s musical issues. These artistic and scientific activities are completed by the release of records, softwares and by training.


Biennale Musiques en Scène 08 March 4 - 20, 2008, Lyon Presented by Grame, with Peter Eötvös , associated curator. Peter Eötvös draws ones of the principal orientations of Biennial. About thirty concerts, spectacles and installations with go from Biennial the 08 cover with multiple dimensions: of the soloist to the instrumental unit, symphony orchestra with the great operatic form, with a broad place granted to the dance and to the mixed media spectacles. Venues: Opéra national de Lyon, Auditorium de Lyon, Salle Varèse/Cnsmd, Les Subsistances, Grand Amphithéâtre/Université Lyon 2, Théâtre Nouvelle Génération, Maison de la Danse, Musée des Moulages, ENBA-Subsistances, TNP/Villeurbanne, Le Toboggan/Décines, Théâtre de la Renaissance/Oullins, Atrium de Tassin, Centre Culturel Théo Argence /Saint Priest, Centre culturel de Pierre Bénite, Théâtre de Villefranche, Théâtre de Vienne, Lux - Scène nationale de Valence

Forum International des Jeunes Compositeurs - Musiques mixtes March 3 - 16, 2008, Lyon The International Forum of young composers is one of the flagship events of the “Musiques en Scène” Biennial, with the fortnight-long presence of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne from Montreal and of the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, whose respective directors are Lorraine Vaillancourt and Daniel Kawka. Six young composers have been selected by two juries in Lyon and Montreal, and several of them will be hosted for residencies in Grame’s studios in 2007-08. 15/3 - 19h00: CNSMD / salle Varèse. Around “Deserts” from Edgard Varèse. Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain - Direction Daniel Kawka. Edgard Varèse - Déserts (1950-54), Stéphane Borrel - Main d’¦uvre (2005) - 21h: CNSMD / salle Varèse. Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporai. Direction Lorraine Vaillancourt & Daniel Kawka. Créations of the 2 winners of Grame/EOC competition for composition. Javier Torres Maldonado & Malika Kishino. Martin Matalon, Trame VIII (WP) commissioned by Grame/Barcelona 216, Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou, Chronorythmie 16/3 - 18h00: CNSMD / salle Varèse. : CNSMD / salle Varèse. Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain. Direction Daniel Kawka &Lorraine Vaillancourt. Créations by the 4 winners NEM: Stéphane Béranger, Jimmie LeBlanc, John Ritz & Adam Roberts, Analia Llugdar, WP, Peter Eötvös, Shadows

5-7 juin 08
NIMES08 - DIST, Università degli Studi di Genova / Genova (Italie)
Participation Dominique Fober et Yann Orlarey (Grame)
8th international conference new interfaces for musical expression

concerts:
6 juin 08
Centre Wallonie Bruxelles/ Paris
19h - Concert GRAME/PERCUSSIONS CLAVIER DE LYON
Ensemble des Percussions Claviers de Lyon
Benjamin Carat, violoncelle - Jérémie Siot, violon. Technique Grame , F.Berthoux
Œuvres de J.P.Dessy, J.Evangelista, J.Giroudon-J.F.Estager
20h30 - CONCERT GRAME/PCL
Œuvres de Jean François Estager, Xu Yi, Pierre Jodlowski, Thierry De Mey
Assistant pour la réalisation musicale, Gérard Lecointe
Commande Grame-Ministère de la Culture, avec le soutien du Centre culturel Théo Argence de
Saint-Priest et du Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, à l'attention des Percussions Claviers de Lyon

16 Juin 08
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Rome (Italie)
20h30 & 22h15 - Descrizione del Diluvio, spectacle multimédia
Paolo Pachini, vidéo - Mauro Lanza, musique
Avec l'ensemble des Percussions de Strasbourg et les Neue Vocalsolisten de Stuttgart
Production : Fondation Royaumont, en coproduction avec le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains, Grame, centre national de création musicale / Lyon, Gmem, centre national de création musicale / Marseille, La Monnaie de Bruxelles et les Percussions de Strasbourg. Avec le soutien de la Fondation Orange, La Sacem, de Nuovi Mecenati, du festival Ars Musica

20 juin - 27 Juillet 08
City Sonics 2008 / Mons (Belgique)
D'ore et d'Espace - Partitions sur verre de Denys Vinzant
20 juin,18h - Vernissage du parcours sonore (Grand Place)
Exposition organisée par Transcultures, Ville de Mons (Service Culture)
Festival international des arts sonores de la Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles

26 juin 08
Palais Saint Pierre / Lyon
18h30 - Concert Grame - Jérémie Siot
J.Siot, violon. Technique Grame. Œuvres de Jesper Nordin- Steve Reich
Concert organisé par la Mapra (Maison des Arts plastiques Rhône-Alpes)

29 juin 08
Cloître du prieuré de la Basilique / Paray-le-Monial
Concert ESOX LUCIUS 2008
avec Cécile Daroux, flûte solo
V.R.Carinola, J.F.Estager, J.Giroudon, P.A.Jaffrennou, J.M.Fernandez, E.Varèse


International Bartók Seminar and Festival

International Bartók Seminar and Festival
Agnes Széll / Csilla Kádár, c/o
FILHARMONIA Budapest Concert Agency
H-1066 Budapest, Jókai u. 6.
Phone: +36 1 266 1459
Fax: + 36 1 302 4962
kadar.csilla@hu.inter.net  
www.filharmoniabp.hu


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

Henrik Martén, president
Volrath Bergs väg 22
S - 448 50 Tollered
Sweden
46-8-4717363
46-31-102131
46-70-3830024
h.marten@telia.com
www.iscm.a.se

To promote the integration of contemporary Music in our time, and to make it known and of importance to a growing number of people. We aim to make the Swedish section to a platform for all kinds of expressions of contemporary art music. We do not organize concerts ourselves but try to cooperate with the network of concert promotors, festivals and centres for new music in Sweden. ISCM - Swedish Section has been operating since 1923. Evenso, it is a small organisation based mainly on the volontary efforts of its 207 members; composers, musicians, musicologists, concert promotors, journalist etc.

 



Klangspuren Schwaz

Paul Kainrath, Artistic Director
Klangspurengasse 1/Ecke Ullreichstrasse 8
A-6130 Schwaz
Austria
tel: +43-5242-73582
fax: +43-5242-73582-20
info@klangspuren.at
www.klangspuren.at/  

The Klangspuren Schwaz – Festival for Contemporary Music in Tirol


Klangspuren Schwaz 2007

September 7 - 22, 2007, Tirol

Die Natur Spielt Mit Program foci, which have always given contours to Klangspuren, are also found in this year’s program one of them in the shape of string quartets, being the most demanding music since Haydn.
Through the use of string quartet composers have always substantially condensed their creative ideas, expressing their inner most thoughts. This has remained the same up until today, one may say that the string quartet has experienced a great revival in the later half of the 20th Century. There is no current shortage of outstanding string quartet formations, which guarantee musical intensity of the highest order. With the Diotima Quartet, the Minguet Quarett, the Arditti Quartet, the Benaim Quartet and the Canadian Bozzini Quartet, Klangspuren 2007 offers four ensembles that are held in great esteem in the area of Contemporary Music. They will open up a broad spectrum of today’s string quartet works.

Together with conductor and composer Micheal Gielen, who celebrates his 80th Birthday in 2007, a further pre-eminent figure of the Contemporary Music scene is present. As part of the focus on the new member states, Cyprus is this year’s focal point. It represents an area where occident and orient meet and overlap. We are looking forward to exciting aesthetic encounters with composers who are less known locally.

Finally Klangspuren will continue last year’s eventful and intense pilgrimage. Here the hiker’s and the thoughtful listener’s contemplation reach an all-embracing from of experience through short concerts at various stages. Of course there still is the fruitful and lasting effect of the Ensemble Modern Academy along with many other local projects with the co-operation of Tyrolean musicians. All this will guarantee a vivid and joyful analysis of Contemporary Music, while avoiding well-trodden paths: in a creative atmosphere, critical objections and a benefit on all sides will occur.


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
www.qmr-cnm.om

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 Prishtina International Festival - REMUSICA is the result of the work of a group of talented kosovar 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 Fibonacci (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. Website: remusicafestival.com

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
Pawel Lukaszewski, Organization Director
ul. Odkryta 38A m 20
03-140 Warsaw
Poland
tel/fax: +48-22-8149592
lukaszewski@chopin.edu.pl
www.laboratorium.org.pl  

Organizes concerts (9-12 each year), meetings, recordings, competitions, courses and festivals

15th Laboratory Of Contemporary Music - International Festival
November 21 - 23, 2008,
Bialystok, Warsaw

Organizer: Podlasie Opera and Philharmony European Arts Centre, Laboratory of Contemporary Music Associoation. Prof. Marian Borkowski: President and Artistic Director, Prof. Dr. Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski - Organizing Director, Dr. Hab. Pawel Lukaszewski, Vicepresident and Organizing Director.

Works by: Boris Alvarado, Venclovas Augustinas, Luciano Berio, Marian Borkowski, John Cage, Artur Cieslak, Dan Dediu, Cezary Duchnowski, Andrzej Dziadek, Ada Gentile, Alicja Gronau, Thomas Jennefelt, Aleksander Kosciow, Bartosz Kowalski-Banasewicz, Morten Lauridsen, Pawel Lukaszewski, Wojciech Lukaszewski, Maciej Malecki, Adrian Mociulschi, Stanislaw Moryto, Aldona Nawrocka, Ryszard Osada, Edward Pallasz, Arvo Part, Bronislaw K. Przybylski, Jesés Villa-Rojo, Tadeusz Trojanowski, John Tavener, Eric Whitacre, Iannis Xenakis, Maciej Zielinski, Agata Zubel a.o.

Performed by: Pawel Gusnar (saxophone), Anna Mikolajczyk-Niewiedzial (soprano), Agata Zubel (mezzosoprano), Jaros?aw Brek (baritono), Robert Morawski (piano), Elettrovoce Ensemble, Camerata String Quartet, Wilanow String Quartet, Podlasie Philharmonic Percussion Group, Jauna Muzika Chamber (cond. Venclovas Augustinas), Orchestra And Chorus of the Podlasie Opera And Philharmonic (cond. Piotr Borkowski) a.o.



Latvian Music Information Centre

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, performers, concert organisers and devotees. The Centre's goals are to promote Latvian music, to collate and disseminate information about it, within and outside Latvia, 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, composers, performing artists, music publishers and the media. The LMIC takes care of Latvia's representation at international music exhibitions and fairs, publishes CDs and informative materials.

Festivals: 20/10-04/11, 2007 - New Music Festival “Arena”, Riga, Latvia, arenafest@music.lv, www.arenafest.lv 1/02-29/02, 2008 - The Latvian New Music Days, Riga, Latvia, lks@td.lv 19/8- 6/9, 2008 - International Sacred music festival, Riga, Latvia, maris.o@inbox.lv, www.music.lv/choirs/Latvia

Workshops: 10/08-18/08. 2008 - The 4th International Workshop for Young Composers, Dundaga Castle, Latvia, workshop@one.lv, dundagaworkshop@gmail.com



Lithuanian Composers Union


Remigijus Merkelys
Mickeviciaus 29
LT-08117 Vilnius ,
Lithuania
tel: +370-5-2123611
fax: +370-5-2120939
info@lks.lt
www.mic.lt/lcu.htm  

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 in Vilnius October 24 - November 7, 2007, Lithuania 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 7 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), will be part of an international jury selecting works which underline the chosen festival theme “InBetween”, looking at contemporary music as transit zone and middle ground. The work of the focus composers will be featured throughout the festival, with the continental premiere of Of Love and Other Demons, a new large-scale opera by Eötvös, in collaboration with the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and the renowned Glyndebourne Opera Festival, and the world premiere of a new work by Harvey for cello octet.

Following the festival theme, ISCM World Music Days / Gaida 2008 will also embrace music projects that are acting as transit zone. Lithuanian foremost female composer Onut Narbutaite, also a jury member, has accepted to write a new piece for All Souls’ Day (2 November), which will bring together all the choirs of Vilnius and its surroundings to sing the same piece, synchronously, in different streets and on different squares of the city.

To underline the international ambitions of the festival, ISCM World Music Days / Gaida 2008 has for the first time invited an international artistic curator, Lieven Bertels (BE / NL), who made his name starting up the new Concertgebouw venue in Belgium, and currently acts as artistic co-ordinator for the famous Holland Festival (Amsterdam). In line with his fresh approach on what constitutes contemporary music, the festival will welcome multimedia installations, DJ acts and improvised music, and involve the local community, truly bringing the adventurous ISCM spirit into the 21st Century. The choice of the ISCM to hold their 2008 meeting in Vilnius confirms the reputation of the rich Baltic music culture of today. Composer such as Bronius Kutavicius, Erkki-Sven Tüür and Arvo Pärt, soloists such as Gidon Kremer or David Geringas and ensembles such as the Latvian Radio Choir, the Kremerata Baltica, the Gaida Ensemble among many others make for a rich mix of styles and approaches on the highest international level. The organisation of this ISCM festival in Lithuania not only is a sound testimony to this reputation, but also a dream running-up event for 2009, when Vilnius will bear the title of Cultural Capital of Europe.


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 organisations 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: annual festival devoted to composers who have left their mark on the 20th century. - Symphony concerts: Since the 10th anniversary of the founding of the LGNM, special concerts 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:

- Dedicatory concerts: Concerts 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 Messsiaen, George Crumb, Maurice Ohana and Witold Lutoslawski.

- LGNM Editions: 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: founded in 1999, has since been endeavouring to make contemporary music accessible to a wider public and to present Luxembourg composers, particularly abroad. .

International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2007 - Four finalists nominated The Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music has invited composers from all over the world to compose new works for its annual International Composition Prize. 152 composers from 38 countries participated in the competition, from Argentina, to Georgia and Germany to the USA and Venezuela. The international jury consisting of Xiaogang Ye (China), Jürgen Blume (Germany), John Casken (Great Britain), Klaus Ager (Austria) and Marcel Wengler (Luxembourg) has chosen four works to be played in the final concert of the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2007. The selected compositions will be performed on October 27, 2007 in a public concert at the Centre des Arts Pluriels in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg by The Luxembourg Sinfonietta, under the direction of Marcel Wengler . The works of the following four composers have been chosen for the final concert: (in alphabetical order) Nicholas Casswell (Great Britain) - Triplicity, Gordon Hamilton (Australia) - Sinfonietta-Concertante, Akihiro Kano (Japan) - The Fith Station, Robert Lemay (Canada) - Mare Tranquilitatis III

Luxembourg Sinfonietta / LGNM concert series 22/9 - Centre des Arts Pluriels Ettelbruck / Luxembourg 20.00 pm, Philharmonic Orchestera of Sibiu performing works by Romanian and Luxembourg composers as part of “Luxembourg et Grande Région, Capitale européenne de la Culture 2007” Soloist: Alina Bercu (piano), Conductor: Theo Wolters. Programme: Norbert Hoffmann Trois Élégies, René Hemmer Le dernier jugement, Henri Pensis Summer evening, Jos Kinzè Concertino pour piano et orchestre, George Enescu Rhapsodie No 1 pour orchestre, L. van Beethoven Concerto pour piano nr 5 27/10 - Centre des Arts Pluriels Ettelbruck / Luxembourg 20.00 pm, International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2007 - Final Concert given by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta, Soloist: Noe Colin Arvizu (bass-baritone) Conductor: Marcel Wengler. Programme: Nicholas Casswell Triplicity, Gordon Hamilton, Sinfonietta-Concertante, Akihiro Kano The Fith Station, Robert Lemay Mare Tranquilitatis III and “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” by Gustav Mahler (new orchestration for the Luxembourg Sinfonietta by Marcel Wengler) 8/11 - Centre national de littérature Mersch / Luxembourg 20.00 pm concert-performance by the soloists of the Luxembourg Sinfonietta as part of “Luxembourg et Grande Région, Capitale européenne de la Culture 2007”. Programme: works by Gideon Klein, Leo Smit, Hans Krása, Erwin Schulhoff and Kurt Heuman 26/11 - Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, 8 pm ACL Young Composers’ Award: Concert, Luxembourg Sinfonietta performing as part of the ISCM World Music Days 2007 Hong Kong, Conductor: Marcel Wengler. Programme: Amit Gilutz These Autimn Days…, Samuel Holloway Stapes, Dominic Garcia Quejada Movement as Stasis, Janet Jie-ru Chen Isolated Islands, Siraseth Pantura-umporn Luklohr-lukkhad, Lam Kwan-fai City Instinct, Han Byoel Choi Arcana 28/11 - Lee Hysanl Concert Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Luxembourg : Sinfonietta performing as part of the ISCM World Music Days 2007 Hong Kong, Conductor: Marcel Wengler. Programm: Dusan Bavdek Intermezzo, Francois Bousch Dragon, Nicholas Casswell Triplicity, Ondrej Stochl Rituals, Scott McLaughlin Penumbra, Maurizio Spriridigliozzi Tarot, Marcel Wengler Hop-Frog’s Revenge, Dan Yuhas Coloured Lines

2008 18/1 - Conservatoire de Musique de la Ville de Luxembourg, 20.00 pm « Concert: Exceptionnel à l’occasion du 25e anniversaire de la Société luxembourgeoise de musique contemporaine » Luxembourg Sinfonietta, Conductor: Marcel Wengler


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 - Festival of Contemporary Music

MaerzMusik 2008 Festival of Contemporary Music / Berliner Festspiele March 7 - 16, 2008Sites • Places • Travels Spain • Portugal • Mexico • New York • Paris • Australia Deserts • Zoology of the Arts

Atmosphere of places, resonance of situations and change of position, i.e. the state of travelling as a physical and metaphorical process of transgression and transformation build the thematic frame of MaerzMusik 2008. Analogy of structures, migration of forms and intercultural rewriting of text will be investigated. A regional focus is set on music from the Iberian Peninsula and Mexico, but rusty fences in Australia’s Outback, New York’s boiling underground in the 60s, 70s, 80s and trails through the philosophical desert play their musical role, too.

Selected performances: 28/2-9/3 Julian Klein: Zoology of the Arts, performance installation at Museum für Naturkunde/Museum of Natural History 7/3-16/3 Jon Rose & Hollis Taylor: Great Fences of Australia, performance installation at Haus der Berliner Festspiele 7/3 20:00 Olga Neuwirth: Hommage à Klaus Nomi – A Songplay (world premiere). musikFabrik 8/3 16:00 Lucia Ronchetti, Albertine, monodrama (world premiere) 9/3 12:00 Liza Lim portrait. Elision Ensemble Brisbane 9/3 20:00 Emmanuel Nunes portrait. Remix Ensemble Porto 10/3 20:00 Stefano Gervasoni, Com Que Voz. Christina Branco (Fado), Otto Katzameier (baritone), Franck Ollu (cond), Ensemble Modern 12/3 19:00 Philippe Hurel, Saxophone concerto (world premiere), Johannes Ernst Sax), Zsolt Nagy (cond), ensemble unitedberlin 14/3 20:00 Konzerthausorchester Berlin : Alvaro Carlevaro (world premiere), Stefano Gervasoni, Enno Poppe. Robyn Schulkowsky, Jorge Camiruaga (percussion), Marino Formenti (piano), Lothar Zagrosek (cond) 15/3 19:00 Fatima Miranda, Cantos Rubados, vocal performance 16/3 11:30 Heather O’Donnell Piano Recital: Walter Zimmermann, Frederic Mompou, Franz Liszt The detailed program is due to be released in January 2008.

 


Miso Music Center

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  

Miso Music Portugal 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 2007 September 11 - 15, 2007, LisbonInstitut franco-portugais & Calouste Gulbenkain Foundation September 18 - 23, 2007, PortoCasa da Música Perception and aesthetics within Musical Creation - Transmutations of sound and new technologies.

The 13th edition of the Música Viva Festival, in 2007, will be extended to Lisbon and Porto. For two intensive weeks, concerts will take place in the Franco-Portuguese Institute, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Casa da Música. The highlight will be the Portuguese musical creation and the relations between music and technology, evidence of its full vitality and diversity. The Música Viva Festival has achieved recognition both nationally and internationally as a vast breathing space for exchanging and discussing ideas and aesthetics; it is a renowned meeting point for music and technology, instrumental - analogical and virtual - electronic realms. Once again, it will present the most prominent names alongside the youngest composers and performers in 23 concerts, 5 installations and 4 conferences - including large orchestras, the Loudspeakers Orchestra and its notorious concerts, chamber music, installations, video, children’s concerts. Overall, the Festival will present 80 works, of which 30 Portuguese premieres and 13 World premieres. Among these are 37 works by Portuguese composers and the revealing number of 10 World premieres that confirm the liveliness of the present creative activity in Portugal to which the Festival gives expression. The richness and vastness of the programme doesn’t allow the mention of only a few shows, for each of them is unique in one specific feature and provides space to music and culture, the aspects that identify and distinguish us as humans. However, the exceptional qualities of Casa da Música make it possible this year to present several sound installations, which defy their own definition and will, for the duration of the Festival, give answer to the occupation of the building’s multiple spaces. Finally, we greet this first partnership with Casa da Música, which welcomes a large part of this years’ programme, with great enthusiasm, while keeping in mind all the public and private entities that have dynamically supported this project through the years, allowing for the Música Viva Festival to become this vast space for exchanging and discussing ideas and aesthetics.

9th Electroacoustic MÚSICA VIVA Composition Competition In order to encourage the creation of electroacoustic 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 organizing, as part of the International Festival MÚSICA VIVA, the 8th Música Viva Electroacoustic Composition Competition 2008.

1st Sond’Ar-te Composition Competition 2008 - Chamber Music with Electronics In order to encourage the composition of chamber music with electronics, Miso Music Portugal and the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble are organising, the “1st Sond’Ar-te Composition Competition 2008 - Chamber Music with Electronics”. The Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble is an ensemble of outstanding soloists living in Portugal specifically dedicated to the “mixed repertoire”, in which acoustic instruments are combined with the most recent electronic technologies.

Concert Series - Miso Music Portugal’s Season Auditório Phillippe Friedman - Instituto Franco-Português: A full year programme with concerts, courses, lectures, Electroacoustic Theatre for Children and Loudspeaker Orchestra series in collaboration with the French-Portuguese Institute.

Courses - 12 to 16 of November, 2007 SuperCollider3 for Beginners: Professor: Andre Bartetzki SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It has a large and growing library of sound synthesis modules and supports structural concepts in composition as well as new approaches to musical design like live coding. The architecture of SuperCollider is optimized for working in real time and for networking with other softwares and machines via Open Sound Control. Place: Auditório Philippe Friedman - Instituto Franco-Português Lisbon

Call for Composers - Residences at Lab for Electroacoustic Creation - LEC Continuing its policy of promoting and encouraging musical creation, Miso Music Portugal has created in 2005 a program of artistic residencies in the recently created LEC (Lab for Electroacoustic Creation). By providing technical and human support and establishing partnerships with several foreign studios, Miso Music Portugal wishes to stimulate electroacoustic creation, giving young composers the opportunity to develop and present their work in the annual Música Viva Electroacoustic Festival. Every year the Miso Music Portugal Electroacoustic Studio (LEC) accepts applications for five (5) artistic residencies from portuguese and foreign composers. Three (3) of them take place at the Miso Music Portugal main Office (in Portugal) and the other two (2) take place abroad.


Music Center Slovakia

Olga Smetanova, Director
Michalská 10
SK- 81536 Bratislava 1
Slovakia
tel: +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, documenting 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 2007 November 7 - 16, 2007, Slovakia Venues: Bratislava, Slovakia Georgian composer Gia Kanceli is going to be a special guest of the Melos-Ethos festival in 2007. Mourned By the Wind for Viola and Orchestra and Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night Prayers will be among his works performed at this event. Other guest appearances will include Zsolt Nagy, Andrew Parrott, Les Percussions de Strassbourg. From inland artists the festival will welcome: Nora Škutová, Jozef Lupták, Juraj Cižmarovic, Milan Radic, Michal Stahel, Zwiebel Quartet, Melos Ethos Ensemble, Moyzes Quartet, Slovak Chamber Orchestra of Bohdan Warchal, Choir of Conservatory in Bratislava and more. On the agenda are the following: three pieces on festival order by Jozef Podprocký, Petra Bachratá, and Peter Groll; Edgar Varèse: Americas; Peter Eötvös: Shadows; Roman Berger: Musica pro defunctis; Olivier Messiaen: Twenty gazes on the Christ-child; György Ligeti: Kammerkonzert, 1st string quartet “Metamorphoses Nocturnes”, Luciano Berio: O King; Alfred Schnittke: Hymns for cello and chamber ensemble, other fragments of sacred works from the 20th century. Slovak works by I. Zeljenka, J. Hatrík, M. Betko, J. Beneš, I. Parík, J. Sixta, I. Hrušovský, D. Martincek, L. Papanetzová, B. Milakovic, M. Lejava, L. Konakovská, I. Buffa, M. Burlas will be performed at the festival. Festival info: Denisa Bencová, t: +421 (0)2 5920 4813, t/f: +421 (0)2 5443 0379, melosethos@hc.sk

18th international festival Evenings Of New Music 2007 October 12 -22, Bratislava 12/10 - Magdaléna Bajuszová (SK): Kolkovic 13/10 - HK Gruber / KSB / Požon sentimentál / Marián Lejava (A/SK): HK Gruber 14/10 - Trapist (A/CAN): Trapist 15/10 - Tibor Szemzö (H): Szemzö 16/10 - Anne La Berge / Enikö Ginzery / Gerrie de Vries / Boris Lenko / Marián Lejava (NL/USA/SK): Brown, Cage, Kurtág, Matej, Wolff 17/10 - Petra van der Schoot/Piet Jan van Rossum/Marián Lejava/Viktor Fucek (NL/SK): Lejava, Van Rossum 18/10 - Ivan Šiller / Ronald Šebesta / Zwiebel Quartet (SK): Feldman, Van Rossum 19/10 - Melos Ethos ensemble/Zsolt Nagy/Marián Lejava (SK): Berio, Borzík, Hollington, Kmitová, Lejava a o. 22/10 - NORDLYS ensemble (DK): Burlas, Godár, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Iršai, Matej, Zagar a o. Seminars Performance: Anne La Berge, Gerrie de Vries, Enikö Ginzery Composition: Piet Jan Van Rossum


Musica Nova - Helsinki

Kimmo Hakola
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 has become a biennial festival, and the next festival takes place in February 2009. The programme consists mainly of works by living composers. The festival is organised as a joint venture of four cultural institutions: the Helsinki Festival, Helsinki Philharmonic, Sibelius Academy and Finnish Broadcasting Company, in collaboration with several other organisations based in Helsinki area. It is coordinated by the Helsinki Festival. Several concerts by international and Finnish artists take place in different locations creating an intense seven days of events and encounters.

The next Musica Nova Helsinki is in 2009

 


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 - New Music Festival Stuttgart 2008 February 14 - 17, 2008, Stuttgart

»It is Eclat's goal to search out and introduce all of the innovative movements in contemporary music today, and to present them in connection with the great compositions of the twentieth century. Non-musical art forms, music theater and interdisciplinary projects will continue to play central roles in the festival's itinerary. Finally, Eclat intends to serve as a forum for young artists, to support the new generation and provide it with performance opportunites

 


musikFabrik, Landesensemble NRW eV

Thomas Oesterdiekhoff, executive director
Postfach 45 07 45
D-50882 Cologne
Germany
t: +49-221-719471940
f: +49-221-719471947
musikFabrik@musikfabrik.eu
www.musikFabrik.org

musikFabrik-for beginners

A smart primary school child once answered the question „what could a musikFabrik be?“ with: „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 their basis democracy the musicians themselves take the responsibility for making all-important decisions. This particularly includes the area concert programming, which has led to musikFabrik’s very unique profile. Their programmes include: interdisciplinary projects that can include live electronics, dance, theatre, film, literature and creative artists, 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.



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
kultur.orf.at/musikprotokoll/

Festival about the state of events in contemporary music: compositions, experiments, improvisations, 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 2 - 7, 2007,

Graz AustriaClose Enough - Music and the immediate On sewing and cooking, lying and loving, listening to radio and listening to musicProgramme: Christian Scheib (A) & Susanna Niedermayr (A)

musikprotokoll at steirischer herbst Close Enough - Music and the immediate We are rarely close enough, and then too close when music touches, perhaps even captivates us. “Close enough” as a musical, aesthetic category can indeed mean emotion, the directness of the effect, the immediate, and also reflection on the immediate. But it can also mean an immediacy of conception and production of music, when - in addition to the detached, sophisticated music industry machine of institutionalised orchestras - the focus is also on our own body, our immediate own action, the self-made, the private sphere, the emphatically subjective, even the intimacy of the individual. Key musikprotokoll productions this year operate in the wide field between “close enough” and “too close” and between the poles of a conceptual immediacy on the one hand and an emotional immediacy on the other.

Aleph Gitarrenquartett, Pierre Bastien, Friedrich Cerha, FM3 and Friends, Burkhard Friedrich, Beat Furrer, Bernhard Gander, Das Gemüseorchester, Goodiepal/Gæoudjiparl, Georg Friedrich Haas, Hanna Hartmann, Hofer/Baumgartner/Hofmüller/Hofmüller, Institut für transakustische Forschung, ensemble Intégrales, Peter Jakober, Philip Jeck, Tetsuo Kogawa, Jiri Konvrzek, Francisco Lopez, Olga Neuwirth, Owl Project, Michael Pinter, sha., Wolfgang Suppan, Staalplaat Soundsystem, RSO Wien, Ensemble Zwischentöne, ... Co-produced by steirischer herbst, ORF Radio Österreich 1 & ORF Landesstudio Steiermark 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 workshops - the publication of journals and compact discs - the development of an archival centre : Electrodoc - sales of selected recording labels and books

L’Espace du Son - Festival Acousmatique International XIV° édition October 17 - 21, 2007 - théâtre Marni, Brussels 17/10 - Opening and Celebration! 18/10 - Christian Calon (CAN) 19/10 - Jean-François Minjard (F) 20/10 - Bernard Parmegiani (F) 21/10 - Beatriz Ferreyra (Arg/F)/Ana Dall’Ara-Majek (F)

Festival 3 visages de la musique électroacoustique May 9 - 11, 2008 - Petit Théâtre Mercelis, Ixelles A ‘trans-genre’ Festival mixing instrumental music, electroacoustic music and vidéo.


Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ

Jan Wolff
Postbus 1122
1000 BC Amsterdam
Netherlands
tel: +31-20-7882010
fax: +31-20-7882020
post@muziekgebouw.nl
www.muziekgebouw.nl

The concert hall of the 21st century
More than 100 years after the Concertgebouw, the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ is opening its doors as the concert hall of the 21st century. At last, Amsterdam has a fully-equipped medium-sized hall for a classical repertoire which is becoming increasingly broader and more varied. The Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ shows current musical developments in the form of festivals, thematic projects, multimedia concerts and special series, which continually forge links with other eras, styles, cultures and art forms. The Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ has a multifunctional main auditorium, with seating for 735 or standing room for 1,500, and a smaller auditorium seating 100, both with foyers and extensive conference and catering facilities.

 

  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, promotion 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 14 - 24 Oct 2007


November Music

Bert Palinckx
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  

Festival November Music (‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL), Essen (G), Gent (B)) is an annual music festival, founded in 1993. It has own productions and accepts no musical borders. So contemporary music, improvisation music, electronic music as well as avantgarde pop are in the festival.  


15th Festival November Music 2007 November 14 - 18 2007, ‘s-Hertogenbosch / Gent / Herne / Münster - Netherlands / Belgium / Germany This year, 2007, November Music will take place for the 15th time. Concerts will be presented in different music centres in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands), Gent (Belgium), Herne and Münster (Germany). November Music is an internationally orientated small-scale festival in three countries. The basis for the program is “New Music”, which is put in a broader framework with important links to other kinds of music. Besides the function of November Music as a stage for new Belgian, German and Dutch music (amongst others by an instigative commission policy), the confrontation with the international contemporary music scene is essential. Such a confrontation provides a stimulus for the compositional practice in each of the three November Music countries. Each year November Music presents projects that are initiated by the festival and produces a CD with a compilation of some of the highlights of the previous festival edition.

This years the festival presents: Guus Janssen, Luc Brewaeys (B), Het Brabants Orkest, Ernst Reijseger, Larissa Groeneveld, Nieuw Ensemble, I Solisti Del Vento, International Improvisation Pool, Guus Janssen, Jeroen Doomernik, Teun Verbruggen (B), Mark Helias (USA), Andrew d’Angelo (USA), Harmen Fraanje, Fredrik Ljungkvist (ZWE), Brice Soniano (FR), Toma Gouband (FR), Rense Vrolijk, Daan Manneke, Helios Ensemble, Kamerkoor, Giel Vleggaar, Frank Wingold Astrid Kruisselbrink, Anny Tseng, Heleen Hulst, Nederlands Vocaal Laboratorium, Bruno Nelissen, Marko Ciciliani, Bakin Zub, Composers Club, Rasheed el Rasheedy, Florian Wittenburg (D), Thomas Smetryns (B), Rob van Rijswijk, Jeroen Strijbos, Cilia Erens, Anne Parlevliet, Re: Created, Paul van Kemenade, Ensemble Intrégrales (NL, D), Thomas Myrmel (USA), Wilbert Bulsink, Keren Cytter (ISR), Thomas Heberer (D), Anna Lange, Louis Andriessen, Tom Dissevelt, Brabants Jazz Orkest, Henk Lamers, Radio Art, Karl-Heinz Blomann (D), Armeno Alberts, Nederland Leest, Nederland Luistert, Arthur Sauer, f.c. Jongbloed, Arnold Marinissen, Hawar Tawfiq, November Music Kids, Oorproeven, Frank van Pamelen, Piotr Groen, Boukje Schweigman, Louis Lanzing. The November Music Program will be send at your request, free of charge.


Nuova Consonanza

Paolo Ravaglia - Presidente
Via Pietro Borsieri 20
I-00195 Rome
Italy
t: +39-06.3700323
f: +39-06.3720026
info@nuovaconsonanza.it
www.nuovaconsonanza.it

Nuova Consonanza organizes a festival of contemporary music each year in autumn with concerts, workshops, lectures. New music from different contries performed by ensemble and soloists. It is interested in cooperations with other organisations.

X International Composition Competition “Franco Evangelisti”, Italy - Deadline: 17 September 2007 - Open to all composers. Works for female voice and ensemble (specific instrumentation), Duration max 12 mins. Prize: 2,000 Euro and performance. Entry fee: 50 Euro

44° Festival di Nuova Consonanza December 2007, Rome


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@gmail.com  
lianaalexandra@gmail.com  
www.geocities.com/novacons2001/classic_blue.html

Nuova Musica Consonante - Concerts and workshop realised by the composers Liana Alexandra and Serban Nichifor, and by the violist Valeriu Pitulac. 

 


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 meetingconcerts (with young composers and young performers). It is interested in exchange with other organisations. 

29th edition of the contemporary music Festival
                             “ NUOVI  SPAZI  MUSICALI “-  Rome

Program of the 29^ edition of the contemporary music Festival
"NUOVI SPAZI MUSICALI"- Rome

6 October 2008, 8.30 p.m
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 October 2008, 8.30 p.m
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 Hall, Via Giulia 1, Roma)

13 October 2008, 8.30 p.m
PETER SCHUBACK - cellist - (Sweden)
Works by S.Sagvik, M.Maros, P.Simai, P.Schuback
L.Gregoretti, G.Guaccero , P.Rotili
(at Hungarian Academy Hall. Via Giulia 1, Roma)

16 October 2008, 9.00 p.m
: DUO BOWMAN-SOLLBERGER, guitar and flute (USA)
Works by K. Broberg, H.Sollberger, M. Babbit, Y.Haber,
P.Cavallone, A.Ciccaglioni.
(at Villa Aurelia Hall, Porta S.Pancrazio 2, Roma)

20 October 2008, 8.30 p.m. : 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 Hall. Via Giulia 1, Roma)

23 October 2008, 8.30 p.m. : PENDERCKI STRING QUARTET (Canada)
Works by L. Catlin Smith, J. Kiri Palmer, A.Gentile,
R. Piacentini, A.Louie, A.Panufnik , C.Penderecki.
(at Polish Institute of Culture, Via V.Colonna 1,Roma)