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Eve O’Kelly has announced her intention to resign as Director of the Contemporary Music Centre (CMC).

In 2010 the Cdmc and the Ensemble 2e2m continue the consideration begun in 2008 of the theme of saturation, combining it with that led in the humanities and in architecture. Three day sessions — in three distinct venues — will be devoted to it, at the frontiers of the social sciences and contemporary artistic creation.

On the occasion of the biennial Musiques en scène, an open day for professionals has been organised by Futurs Composés - a national network for musical creation, in partnership with the Cdmc, the NACRe, Grame/Biennale Musiques en scène and the Enba of Lyons.

One of 2010’s biggest events for the Norwegian folk music scene is without doubt the upcoming Spotlight Norway at Showcase Scotland in Glasgow.

PRESS RELEASE-  The Creators Conference -- the first international conference in Sweden arranged by the creators themselves and their professional organisations.

Denmark at MIDEM in Cannes

On 24-27 January, Denmark will be represented for the 24th time at the world's biggest fair of recorded music.

The Cdmc and the ensemble Arcema present a round table on the contribution of world music to the process of contemporary composition. Jesus Villa-Rojo, Isabel Urrutia, Jorge Fernandez-Guerra, José Luis Campana, Bertrand Dubedout and Daniel Teruggi, composers associated with this ensemble, will take part in a debate chaired by Jeanne Martine Vacher, producer for France Culture.

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Encountered for the first time in 2004, at the 3rd International Forum of Young Composers organised by the ensemble Aleph, it is today thanks to the ensemble 2e2m, of which he is guest composer, that the Cdmc and Makis Solomos join in dialogue again with Dmitri Kourliandski. This young Russian composer defines his music as ‘objective music’, marked by an absence of action.

With content as the competitive weapon on the market of communication and culture, we want to create the best possible means for creation in the future.

In a new 10-minute web documentary Louis Andriessen reflects on his life and music.

Filmed at his home in Amsterdam Louis Andriessen discusses the early influence of jazz and the development of his distinctive compositional style.

during the 26th Music Biennale Zagreb 7-17 April 2011
A half-century anniversary - 50 years of Music Biennale Zagreb

Deadline for entry of projects is: 1st of March 2010

Deadline for submissions for the Gaudeamus Music Week is 31st of January 2010.

This version of Arlesienne  (CD Spring Art Developent 2007®) offers images realized by Gabriella Bartolomei and is the result of a live recording made in Florence.

Three members of the American Music Center staff—CEO Joanne Hubbard Cossa, Membership and New Music Services Director Deborah Horne and Composer Advocate/NewMusicBox editor Frank J. Oteri—participated in the 2009 Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute in Minneapolis in November.

A concert took place Tuesday, November 10, in the National Museum in Ljubljana featuring what the probably the oldest musical instrument in the world — a Neanderthal-era flute or whistle discovered in Divje Babe cave near the town of Šebrelje.

Eighty accordionists played Slavko Avsenik’s megahit ‘Na Golici’ on November 26 in honour of the legendary musician’s 80th birthday at a special celebration held at the Pri Joževcu restaurant in Begunje.

A one-day symposium focusing on the life and work of Radovan Gobec took place on November 26 at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. After an opening speech by Andrej Grafenauer, dean of the Music Academy, Dr. Darja Koter presented a publication on Pavel Sivic, then guest speakers devoted their talks to composer Radovan Gobec.

The American Music Center (AMC) has awarded Composer Assistance Program grants totaling $31,000 to 28 American composers based in 12 states and ranging in age from 24 to 78. AMC annually awards grants that assist composers by helping them realize their music in premiere performances.

The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) has awarded the Giga-Hertz-Prize for Electronic Music together with the Experimentalstudio of the SWR (Southwest Broadcasting Company).

German composer York Höller has won the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for Sphären, a major orchestral score composed between 2001 and 2006.

Coinciding with the release of Magnus Haglund's book on the Swedish avantgarde writer and groundbreaking sound artist Åke Hodell, and the release of Number 3 and 4 of the Swedish Music Information Centre's dvd series on Swedish Sound Art, eight prominent sound artists performed directly on the Djurgården Ferry between the stations Slussen and Gröna Lund in Stockholm on November

Håkan Larsson's string quartet "Now like Then, then

Scene one could have been taken from the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Henrik Hellstenius is relieved; he has found himself a new Hamlet. The Norwegian composer is currently working on a new production of his opera Ophelias: Death by Water Singing. Suddenly, with only a little more than two weeks to go before the premiere, the prince fell ill!

Notturno stenopeico by Carlo Michele Schirinzi (Italy, 2009, DigiBeta, 8’) with soundtrack by Gabriele Panico has been awarded Italiana Corti section at 27° Torino Film Festival.

The winners of the 2009 Paul Lowin Prizes were announced on 30 October 2009 at a special ceremony at The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2009 at the Circolo dei lettori in Torino, Gabriele Panico will be present at 27° Torino Film Festival with Slaves not leaders and Nelle discrete onde – Libro II written, respectively, for the movies Do

The American Music Center, in celebration of its 70th anniversary this month, is holding its first-ever online auction. The auction is now open and will run through November 20, 2009.

Following on from its discussions with contemporary music ensembles, the Cdmc will be tackling, with Court-circuit, the question of the conducting of new musical works. The programme notably features a round table centred on the workshop directed by the conductor Pierre-André Valade at the Paris Conservatory.

Thursday 10 December 09
18h00, at the Cdmc

The Cdmc's partnership with contemporary music ensembles continues on 5 December with Aleph on the occasion of the Mauricio Kagel festival programmed by the ensemble at the Théâtre Dunois. It will focus on the question of instrumental theatre, a major aspect of the Ensemble Aleph's history.

Saturday 5 December 09
16h00, at the Théâtre Dunois

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Some significant leadership and governance changes are taking place at SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music.

CIDIM is pleased to announce the presentation in Rome of Daniele Venturi's first CD Quattro lembi di cielo released by Bongiovanni records.

Ale Möller Band and the The Great Nordic Band will offer the audience world and folk music at its best at Womex in Copenhagen on October 28.

A press conference took place September 23, 2009 reviewing the activities of the publishing wing of the Slovenian Composers Society (DSS), known as DSS Editions, during 2007 and 2008.

The Slovenian National Theatre in Maribor marked the nine decades since its opening with a special open meeting of the theatre’s board and the release of a monograph devoted to the institution.

This year’s 11th annual Slowind Festival took place October 10-14 at Slovenian Philharmonic Hall in Ljubljana.

Monday 23 November 09
At the Cdmc, from 14h30 to 18h30

It's now been a little over seven weeks since the American Music Center moved its offices to Suite 1401 of an attractive Art Deco building located at 322 Eighth Avenue. We're actually still on West 26th Street in Manhattan (New York City); we only moved two and half blocks west, not even half a mile. But still, it is quite a physical change for us.

Some 800 people visited CMC on Culture Night recently.

With two interactive sound installations proving a special attraction, visitors streamed through the Centre from 6.00pm until midnight on 30 September 2009. These record numbers were a wonderful opportunity for CMC to show off the resources of the Centre, and many people expressed support for our work.

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Kent Olofsson was awarded a shared second prize for his work "Stalingrad Madonna" (Symphonie II) in the  

In September 2009, the Australian contemporary classical music industry celebrated the year's most outstanding achievements at the Sydney Opera House Playhouse Theatre with a list of winners that aptly reflects the broad range of artistic practice of the contemporary Australian classical music today.

Tonight Broadcast from 8 to 11 pm of the International Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2009 (www.musicweek.nl ) at Radio4/AVONDCONCERT – VPRO at

http://www.radio4.nl/page/programma/41/2009-09-17/subitem/5203  and click ‘open’ to listen!

The Cory Band, more than half of whose players are former members of the National Youth Brass Band of Wales, has won the British Open championship under their Music Director, Dr Robert Childs.  The Band, a member of Ty Cerdd – Music Centre Wales, currently holds the Brass in Concert, Welsh, European and World championships.

Flemish composer Guy Cuyvers has recently written the main part of the score for Lauras Stern 2, a German-Chinese 3D animation movie. He succeeds Hans Zimmer, who wrote the main part for the first movie. The score was recorded with the Weimar Staatskapelle and some famous soloists from all over the world, including Lang Lang.
 

TED HEARNE WINS GAUDEAMUS PRIZE 2009

Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen makes professional musicians rediscover the quintessential joy of playing, and makes audiences come alive to play their part in the sacred communication of a perfect concert. Critics hail the young Norwegian as a rare music maker, and in Hanover the season is sold out even before the new chief conductor has taken up his post.