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The State Concert Institute Eesti Kontsert, the largest concert organisation of Estonia, begins its season on September 13. At the opening in Estonia Concert Hall, Bochum Symphony Orchestra (Germany) and Estonian National Male Choir conducted by Steve Sloane (USA) and the soloists Gal James (soprano, Israel) and Alexander Anisimov (bass, Russia) perform the Symphony No. 1 of Leonard Bernstein and Symphony No. 13 of Dmitri Shostakovich.

Two young composers were awarded the Gaudeamus Prize at the final concert of Gaudeamus Music Week, which ran from September 3-10 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

In a new publication by the Finnish Music Information Centre five young Finnish conductors has chosen their own 35 favourites from the Finnish Chamber orchestra repertoire and tell about the pieces they have a special connection as a conductor, and in many cases they have given the premieres of the works.

Three works have been chosen as finalists for the 2006 SOUNZ Contemporary Award, celebrating creative excellence by a New Zealand composer.

With a new CD by the piano duo of Ruta and Zbignevas Ibelhauptas, the Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre has launched a new series of releases titled Contemporary Composition.

Opera in Denmark is flourishing in August and September when three new operas are premiered within three weeks.

4th MOL Jazz Festival Budapest, 2006 September 13-17

NordMic Association, a project based network comprised of IAMIC member organisations the Danish Arts Agency Music Centre, the Finnish Music Information Centre, the Iceland Music Information, the Music Information Centre Norway and the Swedish Music Information Centre are currently developing a new edition of the Nordic Wind Music Catalogue, first published 15 years ago.

IAMIC's Office Manager has been invited to participate in the New Art Net international conference for young managers in performing arts, held September 27-30 in Belgrade Serbia.

Canadian Music Centre launches online Audio Gallery
as part of ongoing digitization project

IAMIC members are invited to participate in a winter meeting the 19th January 2007 in Nice. This date coincides with the beginning of MIDEM, held Jan 21-25 in Cannes.

The European Festivals Association (EFA) and IAMIC have launched a collaborative project to promote new music programming.

The 2007 IAMIC conference will be hosted by IAMIC member organisation the Centre for New Zealand Music (SOUNZ) June 19-23 in Wellington New Zealand.

IAMIC welcomes new associate member organisation MATRIX.

MATRIX is an information centre for contemporary music set up in 2000 by the Music Department of the University of Leuven, Belgium's oldest and largest university.

IAMIC welcomes new member organisation the Slovene Music Information Centre Society.

SIGIC, based in Ljubljana, was inaugurated in 2004 to promote the work of Slovene composers and performers across all genres of music.

American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson died on July 3 at home in Santa Fe. She was 52. Widely praised by critics and audiences, her superior musicianship and unassuming personality made her a much loved and respected colleague.

Composer Fang Man has won the American Composers Orchestra's 2006 Underwood Emerging Composers Commission.

In late May, fifty young composers were honored by the charitable foundation branches of American performing rights organizations ASCAP and BMI. Both organizations collective distributed approximately $60,000 in scholarships, grants, and cash awards which were divided among all of the winners.

Recent changes in the handling of performing rights may cause problems for the European music culture, says IAMIC President Roland Sandberg. This article discusses recent documents developed by the EU Commission and their challenges to the music community.

This year, IAMIC joins IAML and IMS in a joint conference. It will be held in Göteborg, Sweden from 18-23 June.