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The Polish Music Information Centre has released a series of 10 promotional CDs containing music performed at the 50th jubilee Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music (September 21st - 29th, 2007).

MICs festival calendar has seen an extensive update and now features more than 200 Norwegian festivals.

Late April Music Export Norway’s UK office officially opened at a well-attended event at the Norwegian Ambassador’s residence in London.

American composer Henry Brant, known for his pioneering development of spatial music, died in his home in Santa Barbara, California, on Saturday April 26, 2008 with his wife and children at his bedside. He was 94.

A festival of experimantal sound and film from Sweden, ”Swedish Outsiders”, will take place in London in mid-May.

New release by Phono Suecia, the record label for contemporary Swedish music.

The International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) closed its office on April 18, 2008, and has ceased operations. Chuck Owen, president of IAJE's board of directors, announced that the IAJE Board has voted to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the United States' Federal Bankruptcy Law.

David Lang's The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fable "The Little Match Girl," has been awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

Once again the Swedish Music Information Centre will arrange ”Swedish Music Day” on the last Saturday of May, this year on May 31st.

The Swedish Music Information Centre is inviting two bloggers to Sweden and this year’s Hultsfred Festival. They are Avi Roig and Craig Bonnell, who write daily blogs on Swedish music called, respectively, It’s a Trap! and Swedesplease.

Ministry of Culture of Armenia Presents 1st National Cello Festival dedicated to Geronti Talalyan. On April 15 at 19:00 will take place Chamber Music Recital at Komitas Chamber Music Hall.
Performers: Komitas State Quartet, Soloist – Narek Hakhverdyan (cello).

The highest award for choirs

Discussion and concert at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum

Slovenian musical activities presented at the Frankfurt music fair

Concert by the DSS Chamber Orchestra of Soloists honours Slovene EU presidency

New monograph looks at half century

The American Music Center's Counterstream Radio (counterstreamradio.org), a station dedicated to showcasing new music by United States composers, is pleased to celebrate its first year of programming with an exclusive, genre-linking conversation between Elliott Carter and Phil Lesh on March 14, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

The American Music Center will present awards to Steve Reich, Robert Ashley, Joan La Barbara, Edgar Meyer, Ned Rorem, Joan Tower, and Derek Bermel as part of its 44th Annual Meeting.

Composer portrait of Kent Olofsson and Faluto con forza with three composers in focus

In November 2007 the first printed volume of Eduard Tubin Complete Works was presented, containing piano pieces.

The Swedish Music Day will take place on the last Saturday of May, this year on May 31st.

The Swedish Jazz Celebration, SJC, is the most important festival for Swedish jazz and a meeting place for all interested in the genre.

Names such as Per Aldeheim, Tommy Tysper, and Mathias Venge may not be familiar to the general public, but their music is heard frequently around the world.

The Australian Music Centre presents the second journal issue in resonate magazine: ‘Critical Times: Australian new music from the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s’. By re-approaching some of the music composed by Australians in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, this journal issue provides new ways of approaching old understandings and prompts new questions for future debate. From the music of experimentalist David Ahern through to Ross Edwards and Nigel Butterley (featured composer in the 2008 Sydney Symphony School’s Concerts), guest editor Michael Hooper draws together a solid collection of thought-provoking articles on Australian new music.

Polish Music Information Centre has proposed Pawel Lukaszewski’s composition O Sapientia to be performed at a concert accompanying the IAMIC Annual Meeting in Wales, September 2008, and the proposal was accepted by the concert Organisers.

Pioneer of electro-acoustic and experimental classical music

Guest artist with the Israel Philharmonic and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

Jazzinty 2008 concert cycle gets underway

Statue of Marjan Kozina unveiled and induction of honorary members

Centrediscs, the recording label of the Canadian Music Centre, is proud to announce that it has received three JUNO nominations in the category of “Classical Composition of the Year” for works by its Associate Composers.

The Canadian Music Centre is proud to announce the launch of its new podcast – SOUNDS NEW. With episodes posted twice a month, this podcast features the world of Canadian contemporary composition.

The Norwegian Opera is postponing its debut of "Around the World in 80 Days" until next season, because of security concerns involving stage equipment at Oslo's new Opera House.

2008 has been nominated Year of Song in Denmark

The largest music fair in Europe resounds with the music of Slovenia

Drago Gajo also presents latest project

Julij Betetto Prize is for artistic achievement and all around contribution to Slovenian music cultu

Polish Music Information Centre releases proceedings of the conference
THE WARSAW AUTUMN AS THE REALISATION
OF KAROL SZYMANOWSKI’S VISION OF MODERN POLISH MUSIC
(Modernism in Post-Modern Times)
which was held in Warsaw between September 24th and 26th, 2007.

2006 Trans-Tasman Composer Colin Bright’s new work Surf Symphony, the result of his residency with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, will be premiered by the APO during Aquatica ’08 – Auckand’s Harbour Festival.

Kaizers Orchestra’s upcoming forth album release is a partial departure from the framework the band has hitherto been associated with. “Maskineri” (machinery) is no less than the first of the new albums from a band that has reinvented itself, if one is to believe the excited delineations of front man Janove Ottosen.

Alongside Liverpool, the Norwegian city of Stavanger has been chosen as the European Capital of Culture 2008. Both cities will mark the year with opening ceremonies at the weekend of 11 and 12 January.

Prepare for one of 2007/2008’s most exciting debuts: singer-songwriter / multi-instrumentalist Silje Nes and her new Fat Cat release ‘Ames Room’.

The vastly successful neo-classical duo Secret Garden releases a special anniversary album featuring performances by such vocal stars as Barbara Streisand, Elaine Paige, Brian Kennedy, Tommy Körberg and many more.

2007 has been a spectacular year for the New York-based Norwegian producer duo Stargate, i.e Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel S. Eriksen. Now regarded perhaps the most important producers around, their breakthrough year in American music is summed up by their five (!) Grammy nominations.

Maribor hosts musical explorers who ignore genre labels

Exhibition at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum

Preparations in Maribor and Ljubljana

The largest anthology of Slovene folksongs continues to grow