IAMIC News

IAMIC's annual informal winter meeting was held in Nice on the 25th of January 2008 before the start of MIDEM in Cannes. Attending

IAMIC organized a reception lunch in Hong Kong

IAMIC hosted a reception lunch on the 25th of November 2007 in Royal Pacific Hotel- Hong Kong. It was during the ISCM-ACL World Music Days 2007 festival where ISCM- ACL delegates were invited for a presentation and lunch.

IAMIC attends the ISCM-ACL World Music Days in Hong Kong

The 2007 ISCM-ACL World Music Days Festival from 22 November to 1 December 2007 have put together the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and the Asian Composers League (ACL) in Hong Kong for a 10-day mega event.

The legendary pop group ABBA will now have its very own museum in Stockholm.
“It’s great that someone feels like taking on our musical history and making it accessible,” commented recently Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Reuss in a joint statement.

Europe's most prestigious showcase event brings Swedish music to the forefront

The 2008 edition of the Noorderslag Weekend, taking place 10, 11 and 12 January in the Dutch city of Groningen, will focus on Swedish music talent and on the Swedish music industry. Comprising of the EuroSonic and Noorderslag festivals and of Noorderslag Seminar business conference, the weekend has over 250 international bands and acts performing and expects to bring 2500 music business professionals together.

Jonas Franke-Blom
DRAMA
Compositions originally written for the theatre
PSCD 158

INSIDE INFORMATION – Big Band Jazz by
Per Tjernberg
PSCD 172

More info at www.phonosuecia.com

Swedish composer Jonas Valfridsson has been awarded third prize in the Toru Takemitsu composition competition for his orchestral work In Killing Fields Sweet Butterfly Ascend.

The piece was performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Chikara Iwamura at the Tokyo Opera City Hall on May 27. First prize went to the Japanese composer Sho Ueda.

Jazz Facts is the new publication from the Swedish MIC devoted to articles about Swedish Jazz.
Download as PDF from www.mic.stim.se/Press room/Subscriptions

New web shop at Swedish Music Information’s website

At the beginning of June, Swedish Music Information Centre opened its book and sheet music store on the Internet. Now it is possible to order sheet music and books directly from the catalogues on the web site.

Sheet music for sale can be found in our classical catalogue and in the Edition Suecia catalogue. In addition, all books in our book archive are available for purchase.

Read more about the Swedish Music Shop at www.mic.stim.se

The International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007
in the ‘Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ’, Paradiso, Felix Meritis and the Bimhuis
3 - 9 September 2007

Celebrating New Zealand Music in May will have its seventh ‘birthday’ this year.

Annually since 2001, May has been declared New Zealand Music Month in these southern isles. Originally it was a means to encourage radio stations here to broadcast a greater proportion of ‘indigenous’ music.

The International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition, open to musicians up to 35 years of age, took place in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) from 15 to 22 April 2007.

Japan World Music announce an International Competition

The entry into force of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions has met with broad general approval around the world.

Following on the success of the first international summer school in systematic musicology (ISSSM 2006), the summer school will be held for the second time at IPEM, the research centre of the Department of Musicology of Ghent University (Belgium).

Eight contemporary works have been selected to be performed at the upcoming IAMIC Concert in New Zealand.

IAMIC is currently seeking a Part-time Office Manager for its Brussels office.

At the worlds most important music trade fair Midem, IAMIC-Secretary Stef Coninx was invited to speak about the 'The social dimension of music in the context of cultural policy' at an informal ministerial meeting.

IAMIC announces its membership to EFAH, an organisation which monitors European Union legislation and policy in cultural affairs, advocates for the cultural sector in Europe and is a representative voice for over 5,000 cultural organisations in the formulation of cultural policy in Europe.

Under the theme Cultural Networks at Work, IAMIC will join the European Festivals Association June 8 2007 at their annual Assembly to participate in discussions on the role of cultural networks in a European context.

As part of an international conference “Culture: A Sound Investment for Europe", Stef Coninx, Secretary of IAMIC and Director of the Flanders Music Centre was invited to talk with the EC's President Barroso. Full text here...

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.

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.

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.