In 2022 the World New Music Days will take place in Auckland and Christchurch, those planned for Shanghai and Nanning had to be postponed until further notice. The Virtual Collaborative Series platform currently focuses on Ukrainian composers. Of the 126 works presented so far, 9 are from Switzerland.
The annual festival since 1923 International Society for Contemporary Musicthe ISCM World New Music Days, will take place in Auckland and Christchurch (New Zealand) in 2022 from 23 to 30 August. They have been postponed from 2020 to 2022 due to the Covid pandemic. the ISCM World New Music Days 2022 coincide with the Asian Composers League ACL festival, which runs from August 28th to September 2nd. The local organizers of the double festival, the Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ) and the ACL, are holding the 2022 festival at the same locations while largely retaining the 2020 program. Switzerland will start the work Look at the lights be represented by Esther Flückiger at the ISCM World New Music Days.
the ISCM World New Music Days in Shanghai und Nanning, postponed from 2021 to March 2022 due to corona, have again been canceled or postponed until further notice due to the Covid pandemic – the city of Shanghai is currently in lockdown. Details of the postponement date will be announced at a later date according to the ISCM. The electroacoustic composition is for Switzerland at the ISCM World New Music Days in Shanghai and Nanning Glass Body programmed by Karin Wetzel.
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ISCM Virtual Collaborative Series
the ISCM despite the corona pandemic. In the absence of concert performance opportunities, in autumn 2020 she launched the ISCM Virtual Collaborative Seriesin which works by composers from all ISCM sections are presented online twice a week.
The aim of the project is to promote online presence and coverage of contemporary music through social media, thus building bridges between the different types of contemporary music composed and performed in different regions of the world. The works are documented with photographs and detailed biographies and promoted on the pages and social media channels of the ISCM and its country and local sections.
Due to current events, works by Ukrainian composers, including Oleksandr Kozarenko, the recently deceased Hanna Havrylets, Olexiy Voytenko, Alla Zagaykevych, Ivan Ostapovych and Julia Gomelskaya will be presented in these weeks.
A total of 126 compositions have been presented since the start of the programme. From the Swiss selection of over 40 proposed works, the ISCM jury has so far included 9 works by Swiss composers in the ISCM Virtual Collaborative Series selection. They are (in alphabetical order):
Heidi Baader-Nobs – Evasion
Arthur Corrales – Flow
Aglaia Graf – Birth of Gods
Klaus Huber – Tenebrae
Sachie Kobayashi – The heavens roll their eyes
Hanspeter Kyburz – Cells
Ulrike Mayer-Spohn – fKFW
April Padilla – Grimja
Karen Wetzel – Glass Body
The entire ISCM Virtual Collaborative Series Selection can be viewed at the following links:
https://iscm.org/iscm-activities/collaborative-events/iscm-virtual-collaborative-series-2020/
https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=ISCMSwitzerlandOFFICIAL&set=a.2741059042811093
https://www.facebook.com/international.society.for.contemporary.music
The Swiss ISCM Section (Swiss Society for New Music / ISCM Switzerland) responsible. David Rossel, Antoine Fachard, Arturo Corrales and Javier Hagen (President) currently serve on its board.
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- Current Swiss participation in the ISCM Virtual Collaborative Series Selection (left to right and below): Heidi Baader-Nobs, Aglaia Graf, Abril Padilla, Klaus Huber, Hanspeter Kyburz, Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, Arturo Corrales, Sachie Kobayashi, Karin Wetzel
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