News

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.