ARTMUSFAIR is devoted to strengthening the position of European contemporary classical music, its creators and makers, and aims to encourage music stakeholders to integrate more contemporary music repertoire into the framework of classical music programming in Europe.

ARTMUSFAIR 2010 contains & features …

• conferences
• trade show stands
• live music stages
• project stages
• concert series
• music clubs
• open rehearsals
• music installations
• composers’ panels
• publishers’ panels
• expertise & knowledge
• networking & discussion
• presentations
• and much more

Meet the Challenges of 21st Century Music – under this challenging title, ARTMUSFAIR 2010 is open to representatives from the entire contemporary classical music scene and aims to attract some 500 composers, music publishers, record labels, musicians, promoters, managers and agents from across the whole of Europe.

Key objectives will be the building of new and closer partnerships, the exchange of new music ideas, and the sharing of the latest best-practice examples of innovation in the contemporary music world.

The previous two editions have been held very successfully in the the City of Glasgow in 2009, following on from the pilot event that took place in Helsinki in October 2008 as part of the Nordic Music Days Festival.

With coming to Warsaw, ARTMUSFAIR comes back to the origin where the concept of this event was developed in the course of the first General Assembly of the European Composers Forum in 2007. We are very proud to return to Warsaw and hold this major four day event that is to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Polish composer Frederic Chopin and the renown festival for contemporary music – the Warsaw Autumn.

ARTMUSFAIR 2010 is being presented by the European Composers’ Forum (ECF) in partnership with the Polish Composers Union (ZKP) and the Polish Music Information Centre (POLMIC). The main activities around ARTMUSFAIR 2010 are hosted at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University. It goes along and in partnership with a music concert series of the RE:NEW MUSIC project as well as with an international conference of “Electronics meets 21st Century Music”. The ECF - initiator of ARTMUSFAIR – is representative of 30 composer organisations in 28 European countries.

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If you are a composer or songwriter, please complete the survey at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/composing

The survey has been developed by Professor David Burnand, Head of the CMM at the Royal College of Music, London; with support and advice from colleagues in the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the Contemporary Music Centre Ireland, the National University of Ireland at Maynooth, Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, and the University of Hertfordshire.

Contact
Professor David Burnand
Head of the Centre for Music and Multimedia
Head of Music Technology
Royal College of Music
+44 (0)20 7591 4383
dburnand(at)rcm.ac.uk
www.rcm.ac.uk

This year, more than 3o participants came together at the European House for Culture, at the Flagey in Brussels, to exchange ideas, experiences and thoughts. In connection with the ARS NOVA platform meeting, the parallel Ars Musica Festival presented dynamic, interesting concerts.

A follow-up on the outcomes is to be published soon: the 2010 ARS NOVA meeting proved to be an inspiring platform in the spirit of “opening doors” to new artistic forms, new performers, new audiences, unusual venues, unknown cultures, new points of view, new approaches to arts and the world!

ECF presented their latest project, ECCO - The European Contemporary Composers Orchestra, in Brussels on ARS NOVA to the festivals and potential partners.

а) music for solo instrument: voice, flute (including alto flute and piccolo), oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, harp, acoustic guitar (electric), violin, viola, cello, double bass and percussion (several instruments acceptable, as long as there is one one performer)

b) chamber ensembles – duo, trio, quartet or any combination of instruments listed under a)
ensembles consisting of two, three or four identical instruments (e.g, four flutes, three violins, four percussion instruments, two voices)
“standard” chamber ensmbles (string quartet, string trio, wind trio) are not eligible

c) chamber string orchestra (5-4-3-2-1) with an optional solo violin or solo voice

We encourage works which are in any sense related to theater (music theater, elements of theater, teatralization of the manner of performance or structure of musical material, performer as actor etc.)
Each category can include electronics, actor, dancer, “extramusical” sound (stone, glass, paper…)

Duration is limited to ca. 7-8 minutes

According to the Regulations of the International Review of Composers, submitted compositions must be no older than three years.

The submition should include:
score (preferably in pdf format, mailed to the Composers Association of Serbia); recording (if applicable), preferably mp3; photo; short bio (maximum 150 words); comment (maximum 150 words)

The score can be submitted by individual composers as well as performers, associations of composers and national copyright societies. Composers of the selected works are responsible for providing complete materials (scores, parts and recordings where applicable). We also welcome proposals for accompanying programs: symposia, discussions on certain topics, musical presentations of various cities, concerts of anthological works.

Deadline for submission is June 1, 2010.
You can send your proposals by email (in PDF format) or by post.

Address for entries/information:
Composers’ Association of Serbia
Misarska 12 - 14
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
email: composas@gmail.com
composas@serbcompo.org.rs
Contact persons: Ivana Trisic, President
Katarina Lazarevic, Executive Secretary

Katarina Lazarevic, executive secretary

Applications are invited from aspiring professional composers of all ages and abilities to join the Musicfest Composition Course.

The course will consist of seminar groups and one to one sessions. Composers will also have the opportunity to prepare, prior to the course, a 5 minute work for the Orion chamber orchestra www.orionorchestra.org.uk

The course offers the opportunity for aspiring professional composers of all ages and abilities to work with leading Welsh composer John Metcalf (www.johnmetcalf.com). There will be sessions for the full group, seminar groups to explore specific issues and one to one meetings.

Early application is encouraged and Musicfest may, in certain instances, to ask you to supply scores and/or recordings to be reviewed in support of your application

For more information please contact Sophie Bennett Tel: +44 (0) 1970 622338 Email: sob@aber.ac.uk

Sophie Bennett
Musicfest Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DE

sob@aber.ac.uk
01970 622338
07531146638

Works scored for: solo saxophone, solo piano, or saxophone and piano duo with or without electronics - maximum duration of 12 minutes. No live electronics.

Deadline: April, 30 2010
Entry fee: euro 30 (thirty) for one score, and euro 20 (twenty) per score if more than one is submitted.
Awards: The authors of the first three classified scores will receive the publication and recording of the work and they will be performed during next winter 2010 at Teatro Dal Verme in Milan. The score sheet and the audio CD will be produced by Casa Editrice Sconfinarte.

Info & Contact:
Associazione Culturale G.E.R.M.I.
Gruppo Europeo Ricerca Musicale Indipendente
Via della Bufalotta, 23 sc.B int.5
00139 Roma (I)
Tel.: +39 06 87082359
Fax: +39 06 8175273
C.F.: 97568350587
www.associazionegermi.eu
info@associazionegermi.eu

www.edizionisconfinarte.com

The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) announces the Annual Call for Works by all IAWM members. We decided to focus purely on electronic media this year, and we will make certain the focus of our annual concert in future years covers a wide variety of instrumental forces. The IAWM Annual Concert 2010 will be held on the 22nd October 2010, 20h, in the Musée des moulages de l’Université de Lyon II, Lyon, France, in conjunction with the Music Season 10/11 of Grame, National Center for Music Creation.

Rules & Regulations

• Entries for the IAWM Annual Concert must be received by 23:59 of June 14, 2010.
• IAWM members (current IAWM members or those joining at the time of submission) of any age or nationality may submit works.

Works should be:

Category I: 2-channel fixed electroacoustic music without soloist or real-time electronics.
Category II: fixed video with 2-channel fixed electroacoustic music, without soloist or real-time electronics.

• Each composer may submit one piece only.
• Works must be under 15 minutes.
• The result will be announced at the end of July.
• The composers whose works have been selected are expected to attend and diffuse their own works in the concert. The rehearsal will be the morning of Friday, 22 October, 2010. At this time, IAWM is unable to provide financial assistance for selected composers to attend the annual concert.
• Please send the following materials by post to the address below:

1. For Category I, send two copies on playable CDs. For Category II, send two copies of the quicktime video file (DV PAL or H.264 formats, .avi, .mov) on DATA-DVD. Materials must be submitted ANONYMOUSLY. Only the title of the piece may appear on the CD and DVD.

2. A sealed envelope containing your information sheet with the work’s title, duration, year of composition, composer’s name, address, telephone, e-mail address, composer’s nationality, brief bio, and program notes in French or English. On the outside of that envelope write the title of the piece ONLY.

Please submit all program information by e-mail as well to: annualconcert@iawm.org.

The identical program of winning pieces will be played at a number of other locations around the globe, after the official 2010 annual concert in Lyon. Individuals interested in participating as one of the hosts for duplicate concerts should contact annual concert chair TAO Yu directly. Concert hosts should have at least stereo sound system as well as projection system for video works.

TAO Yu, Chair
IAWM Annual Concert Committee
31 rue Bouret
75019
Paris, France

Composers are invited to submit works for wind ensemble (with or without piano). Selected pieces will be performed by the UBE during two concerts in January 2011.
Submission deadline: 1st of June, 2010.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ube.studver.uu.nl/callforscores_eng.php