The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes

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. The organization was established in

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in 1922 as Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) following the Internationale Kammermusikaufführungen Salzburg, a festival of modern chamber music held as part of the Salzburg Festival. It was founded by the Austrian (later British) composer Egon Wellesz and the Cambridge academic Edward J Dent, who first met when Wellesz visited England in 1906. In 1936 the rival Permanent Council for the International Co-operation of Composers, set up under

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, was accused of furthering

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cultural ambitions in opposition to the non-political ISCM. British composer Herbert Bedford, acting as co-Secretary, defended its neutrality. Aside from hiatuses in 1940 and 1943-5 due to

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and in 2020–21 due to the global

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, the ISCM's core activity has been an annual festival of contemporary classical music held every year at a different location, the first of which took place in 1923 in Salzburg, which has come to be known as the ISCM World Music Days (sometimes World New Music Days, abbreviated either WMD or WNMD depending on which name is used). There have been a total of 92 of these thus far, the most recent of which took place in

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in May 2019. The 2021 WMD in Shanghai and Nanning has been postponed until March 2022 and the 2022 WNMD is scheduled to take place in

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in August 2022. Michael Daugherty et al at ISCM World Music Days 1982

Each year, during the World Music Days. ISCM members also convene in a General Assembly. Membership in the ISCM is organized through national sections that promote contemporary music in each country. These sections are usually organizations independent from the ISCM that send delegates to the ISCM General Assembly. Each member of the national section is also a member of ISCM and may send in 6 works that are evaluated for performance at the World Music Days. National organizations that promote contemporary music, but have not been designated as the nation section of ISCM, are sometimes given an associate membership status. This status also applies to the members of these organizations. Some individual music professionals receive the "honorary membership" status. The ISCM is governed by an executive committee consisting of seven people; two (Secretary General and Treasurer) are appointed positions and the remaining five (President, Vice President, and three regular members) are chosen from and by the delegates in an election during the General Assembly. Since 1991, the ISCM has also published an annual ''World New Music Magazine'', a print publication that is distributed to its members for further dissemination. A total of 28 issues have been produced. Recent magazine issues are available as digitally downloadable PDFs from the ISCM's website. ISCM is a member of the

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. The current members of the executive committee of the ISCM (as of the June 2025 General Assembly which took place at the O’culto de Ajuda in Lisbon, Portugal) are: Frank J. Oteri (USA), President; Rebecca Diependaele (Belgium), Vice President; Oľga Smetanova (Slovakia), Secretary General; David Pay (Canada), Treasurer; Chialin Pan (Taiwan); Magnus Bunnskog (Sweden); Deborah Keyser (Wales), and Wolfgang Renzl (Austria), Legal Counsel.

ISCM World Music Days

Source: * 1923 in Salzburg, Austria * 1924 in Prague, Czechoslovakia and Salzburg, Austria * 1925 in Prague, Cezechoslovakia and Venice, Italy * 1926 in Zürich, Switzerland * 1927 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany * 1928 in Siena, Italy * 1929 in Geneva, Switzerland * 1930 in Liège/Brussels, Belgium * 1931 in Oxford/London, England * 1932 in Vienna, Austria * 1933 in Amsterdam, Netherlands * 1934 in Florence, Italy * 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia * 1936 in Barcelona, Spain * 1937 in Paris, France * 1938 in London, England * 1939 in Warsaw/Krakau, Poland * 1941 in New York, New York, U.S.A. * 1942 in Berkeley, California, U.S.A. * 1946 in London, England * 1947 in Copenhagen/Lund, Denmark * 1948 in Amsterdam/Scheveningen, Netherlands * 1949 in Palermo/Taormina, Italy * 1950 in Brussels, Belgium * 1951 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany * 1952 in Salzburg, Austria * 1953 in Oslo, Norway * 1954 in Haifa, Israel * 1955 in Baden-Baden, West Germany * 1956 in Stockholm, Sweden * 1957 in Zürich, Switzerland * 1958 in Strasbourg, France * 1959 in Rome/Naples, Italy * 1960 in Cologne, West Germany * 1961 in Vienna, Austria * 1962 in London, England * 1963 in Amsterdam, Netherlands * 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark * 1965 in Madrid, Spain * 1966 in Stockholm, Sweden * 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia * 1968 in Warsaw, Poland * 1969 in Hamburg, West Germany * 1970 in Basel, Switzerland * 1971 in London, England * 1972 in Graz, Austria * 1973 in Reykjavík, Iceland * 1974 in Rotterdam/Utrecht/Amsterdam/Den Haag/Hilversum, Netherlands * 1975 in Paris, France * 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. * 1977 in Bonn, West Germany * 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland * 1979 in Athens, Geeece * 1980 in Jerusalem/Tel Aviv/Be’er Scheva/Kibbuz Schefajim, Israel * 1981 in Brusells/Gent, Belgium * 1982 in Graz, Austria * 1983 in Aarhus, Denmark * 1984 in Toronto/Montreal, Canada * 1985 in The Netherlands * 1986 in Budapest, Hungary * 1987 in Cologne/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, West Germany * 1988 in Hong Kong * 1989 in Amsterdam, Netherlands * 1990 in Oslo, Norway * 1991 in Zürich, Switzerland * 1992 in Warsaw, Poland * 1993 in Mexico City, Mexico * 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden * 1995 in Essen/Bochum/Dortmund/Duisburg (Ruhrgebiet), Germany * 1996 in Copenhagen, Denmark * 1997 in Seoul, South Korea * 1998 in Manchester, England * 1999 in Romania/Moldova * 2000 in Luxembourg * 2001 in Yokohama, Japan * 2002 in Hong Kong S.A.R., China * 2003 in Slovenia * 2004 in Switzerland * 2005 in Zagreb, Croatia * 2006 in Stuttgart, Germany * 2007 in Hong Kong S.A.R., China * 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania * 2009 in Sweden * 2010 in Sydney, Australia * 2011 in Zagreb, Croatia * 2012 in Belgium * 2013 in Košice/Bratislava, Slovakia and Vienna, Austria * 2014 in Wroclaw, Poland * 2015 in Ljubljana, Slovenia * 2016 in Tongyeong, South Korea * 2017 in Vancouver, Canada * 2018 in Peking, China * 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia * 2020 in Auckland/Christchurch, New Zealand postponed to 2022 * 2021 in Shanghai/Nanning, cancelled * 2022 in Auckland/Christchurch, New Zealand * 2023 in Johannesburg/Soweto/Cape Town, South Africa * 2024 in the Faroe Islands

ISCM Honorary Members

Source: * Louis Andriessen *

Milton Babbitt Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He was a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, recognized for his serial and electronic music. Biography ...

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...

* *

Ferruccio Busoni Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...

Elliott Carter Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer who was one of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century. He combined elements of European modernism and American " ...

Alfredo Casella Alfredo Casella (25 July 18835 March 1947) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career Casella was born in Turin, the son of Maria (née Bordino) and Carlo Casella. His family included many musicians: his grandfather, a f ...

* Friedrich Cerha * Chen Yi *

Chou Wen-chung Chou Wen-chung (; July 28, 1923 – October 25, 2019) was a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States and received his music training at the New England Conservatory and Columbia Univ ...

* Edward Clar *

Paul Collaer Paul Collaer (8 June 1891 – 10 December 1989) was a Belgian musicologist, pianist, and conductor of Flemish background who was born in Boom and died in Brussels. Through concerts and radio broadcastings, he played an important role in the popula ...

Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as the "Dean of American Compos ...

* Luigi Dallapiccola * Edward Dent * Franz Eckert *

Óscar Esplá Óscar Esplá y Triay (5 August 1886 – 6 January 1976) was a Spanish composer. The Conservatorio Superior de Música (music school, conservatory) of the city of Alicante is dedicated to him. The ''Premio internacional de composición Óscar ...

Manuel de Falla Manuel de Falla y Matheu (, 23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20t ...

* Michael Finnissy * Vinko Globokar *

Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (24 October 1931 – 13 March 2025) was a Soviet and Russian composer of Modernism (music), modernist Holy minimalism, sacred music. She was highly prolific, producing numerous Chamber music, chamber, Orchestra, orch ...

Alois Hába Alois Hába (21 June 1893 – 18 November 1973) was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher. He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and to the major composers of microtonal music, especially using the quarter-to ...

* * Ernst Henschel *

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith ( ; ; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advo ...

Arthur Honegger Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss-French composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, '' Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher'' is "more even ...

* Klaus Huber * Sukhi Kang *

Zoltán Kodály Zoltán Kodály (, ; , ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education. ...

Charles Koechlin Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (; 27 November 186731 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. Among his better known works is '' Les Heures persanes'', a set of piano pieces based on th ...

Zygmunt Krauze Zygmunt Krauze (born September 19, 1938) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music, educator, and pianist. Biography Zygmunt Krauze is an important artist of his generation: a respected composer, valued pianist, educator, organiser of m ...

* Ernst Křenek * György Kurtág * André Laporte * Doming Lam *

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde music, avant-garde composers in the latter half of the ...

Witold Lutosławski Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szymanow ...

* Walter Maas *

Gian Francesco Malipiero Gian Francesco Malipiero (; 18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor. Life Early years Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gi ...

* Yori-Aki Matsudaira * Arne Mellnäs *

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithology, ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th century, he was also an ou ...

Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (, ; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His composition ...

* Conlon Nancarrow * Arne Nordheim * Per Nørgård * Vítězslav Novák * *

Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt (; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in p ...

Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include '' Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', '' ...

* Goffredo Petrassi *

Willem Pijper Willem Frederik Johannes Pijper (; 8 September 189418 March 1947) was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher. Pijper is considered to be among the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 20th century. Life Pijper was b ...

Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism in music, Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composer ...

* Hans Rosbaud * Hilding Rosenberg * Albert Roussel * Antonio Rubin * Kaija Saariaho * Paul Sacher * Hermann Scherchen * R. Murray Schafer *

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first Modernism (music), modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-centu ...

Roger Sessions Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, a ...

Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius (; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic music, Romantic and 20th-century classical music, early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his countr ...

* Linda Catlin Smith *

Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century c ...

Karol Szymanowski Karol Maciej Szymanowski (; 3 October 188229 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist. He was a member of the modernism (music), modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century. Szymanowski's early w ...

Toru Takemitsu TORU or Toru may refer to: *TORU, spacecraft system *Tōru (given name), Japanese male given name *Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Tõru Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Es ...

* Chris Walraven *

Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams ( ; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over ...

* Iannis Xenakis *

Isang Yun Isang Yun, or Yun I-sang (; 17 September 1917 – 3 November 1995), was a Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany. Early life and education Yun was born in Sancheong (Sansei), Korea under Japanese rule, Korea in 1917, ...

* Jōji Yuasa

ISCM ExCom (Update: July 9, 2024)

* Glenda Keam, New Zealand (President) * Frank J. Oteri, U.S.A. (Vice President) * Rebecca Diependaele, Belgium * Magnus Bunnskog, Sweden * Chia-Lin Pan, Taiwan * David Pay, Music on Main/Canada (Treasurer) * Oľga Smetanová, Slovakia (Secretary General)

ISCM World Music Days jury members

Source: * Ernest Ansermet, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1932, 1936, 1938 *

, 1924 *

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( ; ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

, 1928, 1931 *

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organis ...

, 1932, 1934, 1951 *

Pierre Boulez Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music. Born in Montb ...

, 1961 *

, 1954, 1960, 1963, 1976 *

, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1934 *

, 1942 * Luigi Dallapiccola, 1950, 1953, 1966 * Franco Donatoni, 1971, 1975 * Henri Dutilleux, 1956, 1962, 1967 *

Brian Ferneyhough Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and ...

, 1978 * Luc Ferrari, 1972 *

Wolfgang Fortner Wolfgang Fortner (12 October 1907 – 5 September 1987) was a German composer, academic composition teacher and conductor. Life and career Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense ...

, 1958, 1960, 1969 * Vinko Globokar, 1972 *

, 1927, 1932, 1938, 1958, 1961 * Cristóbal Halffter, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1980 *

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, born Roman Haubenstock (; 27 February 1919 – 3 March 1994) was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna. Life Haubenstock-Ramati was born in Tonie (a village near Krakow, to which it was ...

, 1980 *

, 1926 * Klaus Huber, 1965, 1969 * Jacques Ibert, 1930, 1937, 1948 *

, 1925 * Marek Kopelent, 1977 * Ernst Křenek, 1934, 1941 * Rafael Kubelík, 1947 *

Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (; born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. Associated with the "instrumental musique concrète" style, Lachenmann is alongside Wolfgang Rihm as among the leading Germa ...

, 1981 * Rolf Liebermann, 1955, 1957 *

, 1966, 1972 *

, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1971 *

, 1930, 1933, 1949 *

, 1955 *

, 1938, 1942 *

, 1929 * Aribert Reimann, 1976 * Wolfgang Rihm, 1977 *

Frederic Rzewski Frederic Anthony Rzewski ( ; April 13, 1938 – June 26, 2021) was an American composer and pianist, considered to be one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. From 1977 up to his eventual death, he lived mainly in Be ...

, 1981 * Hermann Scherchen, 1923, 1926, 1935 *

Dieter Schnebel Dieter Schnebel (14 March 1930 – 20 May 2018) was a German composer, theologian and musicologist. He composed orchestral music, chamber music, vocal music and stage works. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of e ...

, 1977 *

Erwin Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff (; 8 June 189418 August 1942) was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germ ...

, 1930 *

Mátyás Seiber Mátyás György Seiber (, sometimes given as Matthis Seyber; 4 May 1905 – 24 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards. His work linked many diverse musical influences, ...

, 1953, 1955, 1958 * Kazimierz Serocki, 1961, 1969 * Heinrich Strobel, 1955 *

Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1 November 1901 – 15 August 1988) was a German composer, musicologist, and historian and critic of music. Life Stuckenschmidt was born in Strasbourg. At as early an age as 19, he was the Berlin-based music criti ...

, 1951 *

, 1926 *

Anton Webern Anton Webern (; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist. His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyric poetry, lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonality, aton ...

, 1932, 1936 * Egon Wellesz, 1923, 1925 * Christian Wolff, 1977 * Iannis Xenakis, 1975

Significant premieres at ISCM World Music Days

Source: * 1923, Salzburg,

, Quintett für Streichquartett und Klarinette, op. 30 ( Amar Quartet) * 1923, Salzburg,

William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...

, Streichquartett Nr. 1 * 1924, Prague,

, ''Erwartung,'' op. 17 ( Alexander von Zemlinsky) * 1924, Prague, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Lyrische Suite, op. 18 * 1924, Salzburg, Ernst Křenek, Streichquartett Nr. 4, op. 24 * 1924, Salzburg, Paul Hindemith, Streichtrio, op. 34 * 1925, Venezia,

Hanns Eisler Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The ...

, Duo für Vl/Vc * 1926, Zürich,

, 5 Stücke für Orchester, op. 10 * 1935, Prague,

Karl Amadeus Hartmann Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century. Life Born in Munich, the son ...

, ''Miserae'' * 1935, Prague, Anton Webern, Konzert für 9 Instrumente, op. 24 * 1936, Barcelona,

, Violinkonzert ( Louis Krasner) * 1936, Barcelona, Ernst Křenek, ''Fragmente aus Karl V.'' * 1938, London, Anton Webern, Kantate ''Das Augenlicht,'' op. 26 * 1946, London, Anton Webern, Kantate Nr. 1, op. 29 * 1950, Bruxelles, Anton Webern, Kantate Nr. 2, op. 32 * 1954, Haifa, André Jolivet, Symphonie Nr. 1 * 1955, Baden-Baden,

, ''Le Marteau sans Maître'' (SWF-Orchester Baden-Baden) * 1957, Zürich,

, '' Moses und Aron'' (stage premiere) * 1960, Köln,

Mauricio Kagel Mauricio Raúl Kagel (; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer and academic teacher. Life and career Early life and education Mauricio Raúl Kagel was born on 24 December 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an ...

, ''Anagrama'' * 1960, Köln,

, ''Apparitions'' * 1960, Köln,

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

, ''Kontakte'' * 1960, Köln,

, Streichquartett Nr. 3 * 1960, Köln,

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera ''Die Soldaten'', which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. Hi ...

, ''Nobody knows,'' Konzert für Trompete * 1961, Wien,

, ''Dimensionen der Zeit und Stille'' * 1962, London, Klaus Huber, ''Cujus Legibus Rotantur Poli'' * 1963, Amsterdam, Heinz Holliger, Kantate ''Erde und Himmel'' * 1967, Prague,

, Streichquartett Nr. 16 * 1968, Warszawa, Friedrich Cerha, ''Spiegel I'' * 1975, Paris, Peter Růžička, ''Befragung'' * 1982, Graz,

, ''Thanatos Eros II'' * 1982, Graz, Christoph Delz, ''Die Atmer der Lydia'' * 1982, Graz, Heinz Holliger, ''Jahreszeiten'' (Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Erwin Ortner) * 1982, Graz,

, Nocturnes II * 1982, Graz, Conlon Nancarrow, ''Piece for Small Orchestra, String Quartet, Study'' Nr. 3a, 10, 12, 21, 25, 36, 37, 40b, 41c, 43 for Player Piano * 1982, Graz,

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his lengthy ...

, ''A Handsom-Smooth-Sweet-Clear-Stroke: Or Else Play not at All'' (ORF-Sinfonie Orchester Wien, Lothar Zagrosek) * 1983, Aarhus,

Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large List of compositions by Hans Werner Henze, oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Igor Stravinsky, Stravinsky, Mu ...

, 3 Concerti Piccoli * 1983, Aarhus,

, Symphony Nr. 3 * 1983, Aarhus, Pascal Dusapin, String Quartet (Arditti Quartet) * 1983, Aarhus, Iannis Xenakis, ''Tetra'' (Arditti Quartet) * 1984, Toronto/Montreal, Vinko Globokar, ''Laboratorium'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Giacinto Scelsi, ''Uaxuctum'' (Kölner Rundfunkchor, Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Hans Zender) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main,

, ''Stichworte – Stichnoten'' (Dieter Schnebel) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Vinko Globokar, ''Les Emigrés'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main,

, ''Music for 13'' * 1989, Amsterdam, Michael Jarrell, ''Assonance III'' * 1990, Oslo,

Unsuk Chin Unsuk Chin ( ; born July 14, 1961) is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Chin was a self-taught pianist from a young age and studied composition at Seoul National University as well as with ...

, ''Troerinnen'' * 1990, Oslo, György Kurtág, ''Ligatura – Message to Frances-Marie: The Answered Unanswered Question'' * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, György Kurtág, ''Three Messages'' (Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, Toshio Hosokawa, ''Super Flumina Babylonis'' ( Ensemble Modern, Eberhard Kloke) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, Walter Zimmermann, ''Diastasis'' (Ensemble Modern, Eberhard Kloke) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, Chaya Czernowin, ''Amber'' * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, Kunsu Shim, (untitled) * 1998, Manchester,

Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music ...

, ''Il Rozzo Martello'' (BBC Singers) * 2000, Luxembourg, Wolfgang Rihm, ''Jagden und Formen,'' Zustand X/2000 (Ensemble Modern) * 2004, Switzerland, Johannes Schöllhorn, ''Rote Asche'' * 2006, Stuttgart, Georges Aperghis, ''Wölfli Kantata'' ( Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, SWR Vokalensemble) * 2006, Stuttgart, Francesco Filidei, ''Altro Recercar'' * 2006, Stuttgart, Jennifer Walshe, ''passenger'' * 2006, Stuttgart, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, ''LÁMA POÍM'' * 2006, Stuttgart,

Younghi Pagh-Paan Younghi Pagh-Paan (born 1945) is a South Korean composer. Life Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. She studied music at the Seoul National University from 1965 to 1971. In 1974 she received a German Academic Exchang ...

, ''Mondschatten'' (Staatsoper, Staatsorchester Stuttgart) * 2013, Kosice/Bratislava/Wien, Bernhard Lang, ''Monadologie XXIV…The Stoned Guest'' * 2014, Wroclaw, Slawomir Kupczak, Symphony Nr. 2 für 100 Motorräder, elektrische Gitarre, Perkussion und Elektronik * 2015, Ljubljana, Nina Šenk, ''Into the Shades'' * 2016, Tongyeong, Yejune Synn, ''Zoetrope'' (Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra) * 2016, Tongyeong, Nick Roth, ''Woodland Heights'' ( Hong Kong New Music Ensemble)

Significant performances at ISCM World Music Days

Source: * 1923, Salzburg,

, ''Die hängenden Gärten,'' op. 15 * 1923, Salzburg,

, Streichquartett, op. 3 * 1924, Prague,

, '' Pacific 231'' * 1924, Prague,

Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''. , group=n ( – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who l ...

, Violin Concerto * 1924, Prague,

, ''Chant du Rossignol'' * 1925, Venezia,

, ''Tzigane'' für Vl/Kl * 1925, Venezia, Igor Stravinsky, Piano Sonata * 1926, Zürich,

, Konzert für Orchester, op. 38 * 1926, Zürich,

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (; ; March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for hi ...

, Violinkonzert, op. 12 * 1929, Genève,

Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (, 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, Music theory, music theorist, Folkloristics, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian folk music, Moravian and other Slavs, Slavic music, includin ...

, '' Glagolitic Mass'' * 1931, London,

, Symphonie, op. 21 * 1933, Amsterdam, Igor Strawinsky, '' Symphonie des Psaumes'' * 1934, Firenze,

, Piano Concerto for the left hand * 1935, Prague, Alban Berg, ''Lulu-Suite'' * 1935, Prague, Arnold Schoenberg, Variationen für Orchester, op. 31 * 1938, London,

, '' La Nativité du Seigneur'' * 1942, San Francisco, Paul Hindemith, Symphonie in Es * 1946, London,

, Konzert für Orchester * 1946, London, Olivier Messiaen, ''Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps'' * 1946, London,

, Ode an Napoleon Bonaparte, op. 41 * 1951, Frankfurt am Main, Olivier Messiaen, ''5 Rechants'' * 1952, Salzburg,

, Violinkonzert * 1953, Oslo,

, Konzert für Orchester * 1966, Stockholm,

, ''Kontra-Punkte'' Nr. 1 * 1957, Zürich,

, Symphonie Nr. 6 * 1958, Strasbourg, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Symphonie * 1959, Roma,

Luigi Nono Luigi Nono (; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music. Biography Early years Nono, born in Venice, was a member of a wealthy artistic family; his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono bega ...

, ''Incontri'' per 24 strumenti * 1959, Napoli, Igor Stravinsky, ''Agon'' * 1959, Napoli, Igor Stravinsky, ''Pribaoutki'' * 1959, Napoli, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klavierstück XI * 1959, Napoli, Karlheinz Stockhausen, ''Gesang der Jünglinge'' * 1960, Köln,

, Symphonie Nr. 7 * 1960, Köln,

, Symphonie Nr. 8 * 1961, Wien,

, ''Séquences'' * 1961, Wien, Edgar Varèse, ''Arcana'' * 1963, Amsterdam, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Symphonie Nr. 8 * 1963, Amsterdam,

, Piano Sonata Nr. 2 * 1963, Amsterdam,

, ''Threnos'' * 1964, Kopenhagen, Edgar Varèse, ''Offrandes'' * 1965, Madrid, Krzysztof Penderecki, ''Stabat mater'' * 1965, Madrid, Arnold Schoenberg, ''A Survivor from Warsaw,'' op. 46 * 1966, Stockholm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, ''Mikrophonie II'' * 1966, Stockholm, Edgar Varèse, ''Octandre'' * 1968, Warschau, Klaus Huber, ''Tenebrae'' * 1968, Warszawa,

, Requiem * 1969, Hamburg, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Symphonie „K“ * 1969, Hamburg,

, ''Consolation II'' * 1969, Hamburg,

, ''Présence'' * 1971, London, György Ligeti, Kammerkonzert * 1971, London,

Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include ''Quaderno di strada'' (2003) and ''La porta d ...

, ''…Da und Divertimento'' * 1971, London, Iannis Xenakis, ''Atrées'' * 1972, Graz,

, ''Repertoire'' (from: ’'Staatstheater'') * 1972, Graz,

, Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra * 1972, Graz,

, ''Glossolalie'' * 1980, Jerusalem, György Ligeti, Concerto for Violoncello * 1981, Bruxelles/Gent,

, ''Time and Motion Study I'' * 1981, Bruxelles/Gent,

George Crumb George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical ...

, ''Eleven Echoes of Autumn'' * 1981, Bruxelles/Gent, Vinko Globokar, ''La Tromba è mobile'' * 1981, Bruxelles/Gent,

, ''Sori'' * 1982, Graz,

, Ragtime und Habaneras * 1982, Graz, Mauricio Kagel, ''Fürst Igor, Strawinsky'' (Mauricio Kagel, Manos Tsangaris) * 1982, Graz, György Ligeti, ''Atmosphères'' (Wiener Symphoniker) * 1982, Graz,

, ''Credo in US'' * 1982, Graz,

, ''Improvisation sur Mallarmé II'' * 1982, Graz, Karlheinz Stockhausen, ''Kreuzspiel'' * 1982, Graz,

Cornelius Cardew Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected experimental mu ...

, ''We Think for the Future'' (

) * 1982, Graz,

, ''Polifonia, Monodia, Ritmica'' * 1982, Graz,

Luciano Berio Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental music, experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia (Berio), Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled ''Seque ...

, ''Entrata/Encore'' * 1982, Graz,

Sonny Rollins Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded over sixt ...

, ''Quintet'' * 1983, Aarhus, Giacinto Scelsi, String Quartet Nr. 4 ( Arditti Quartet) * 1983, Aarhus, Brian Ferneyhough, String Quartet Nr. 2 ( Arditti Quartet) * 1983, Aarhus, Karlheinz Stockhausen, ''Mantra'' * 1983, Aarhus,

Steve Reich Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich descr ...

, ''Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ'' * 1983, Aarhus, Georges Aperghis, ''Récitations pour voix seule'' (Nos. 1,2,3,8,9,10,14) * 1983, Aarhus,

, ''Fratres'' * 1983, Aarhus, Louis Andriessen, ''Workers Union'' * 1983, Aarhus, Klaus Huber, ''Beati Pauperes II'' (1979) * 1983, Aarhus, Tristan Murail, ''Gondwana'' * 1983, Aarhus, Ernst Křenek, ''Arc of Life'' (op. 234, 1981) * 1983, Aarhus, Adriana Hölszky, ''Space'' * 1983, Aarhus, Mauricio Kagel, ''Dressur'' * 1984, Toronto/Montreal, Jonty Harrison, ''Klang'' * 1984, Toronto/Montreal, Francis Dhomont, ''Points de fuite'' * 1984, Toronto/Montreal,

, ''Gestalten'' * 1984, Toronto/Montreal,

, ''Exemplum in memoriam Kwangju'' * 1984, Toronto/Montreal, Brian Ferneyhough, Adagissimo ( Arditti Quartet) * 1984, Toronto/Montreal, György Kurtág, Quatuor op. 1 (Arditti Quartet) * 1985, Netherlands, Klaus Huber, ''...Nudo que ansi juntaís...'' * 1985, Netherlands, Luciano Berio, ''Fa-Si'' * 1985, Netherlands, Kaija Saariaho, ''Verblendungen'' für grosses Orchester und Zuspielband * 1985, Netherlands,

, ''Movement – vor der Erstarrung'' (Ensemble Modern, Lothar Zagrosek) * 1985, Netherlands, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klavierstück XII * 1986, Budapest, Luigi Nono, ''A Carlo Scarpa architetto ai suoi infiniti possibili'' * 1986, Budapest,

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

, ''Acte sans paroles'' (I. ''Thirst,'' II. ''Mr. A and Mr. B'') * 1986, Budapest, György Ligeti, ''Aventures'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Giacinto Scelsi, ''Ein Blitzstrahl... und der Himmel öffnete sich'' (Kölner Rundfunkchor, Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Hans Zender) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Giacinto Scelsi, ''Hurqualia – Ein anderes Königreich'' (Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Hans Zender) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Giacinto Scelsi,'' Hymnos'' (Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Hans Zender) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Carola Bauckholt, ''Die faule Vernunft'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Hans Zender, ''Hölderlin lesen'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Luigi Nono, ''Fragmente – Stille an Diotima'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, ''The Lost Chord’' ( Phil Minton, Christian Marclay, Günter Christmann, Torsten Müller) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Christian Wolff, ''Long Peace March'' ( Ensemble Modern, Ingo Metzmacher) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Iannis Xenakis, ''Jalons'' ( Ensemble InterContemporain, Arturo Tamayo) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Klaus Huber, ''Erinnere dich an G...'' (Ensemble InterContemporain, Arturo Tamayo) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Pascal Dusapin, ''Niobé ou le rocher de Sipyle'' (Ensemble InterContemporain, Arturo Tamayo) * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Michael Gielen, ''Ein Tag tritt hervor'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Mauricio Kagel, ''Ein Brief'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Rihm, ''Chiffre VII'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Heiner Goebbels, ''Thränen des Vaterlandes'' * 1987, Köln/Bonn/Frankfurt am Main, Karlheinz Stockhausen, ''Xi, Drachenkampf und Argument, Vision und Donnerstags-Abschied (Michaels Abschied),'' (Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kathinka Pasveer,

Markus Stockhausen Markus Stockhausen (born 2 May 1957) is a German trumpeter and composer. His recordings and performances have typically alternated between jazz and chamber or opera music, the latter often in collaboration with his father, composer Karlheinz St ...

, Nicholas Isherwood,

Mike Svoboda Michael Svoboda (born 1960) is an American composer and trombonist who lives and works in Switzerland. Life Born in Guam, Svoboda grew up in Chicago and studied composition and conducting at the University of Illinois. In 1981, he came to German ...

, Andreas Boettger, Julian Pike, Michael Obst, Michèle Noiret, Jean Christian Jalon) * 1988, Hongkong,

Morton Feldman Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School o ...

, ''Palais de mari'' * 1988, Hongkong, John Cage, ''Song Books I-II'' * 1988, Hongkong, Brian Ferneyhough, String Quartet Nr. 3 * 1988, Hongkong,

Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...

, ''Opening'' * 1988, Hongkong, Gérard Grisey, ''Talea'' * 1988, Hongkong,

, ''El Cimarrón'' * 1988, Hongkong, Liza Lim, ''Pompes Funèbres'' * 1988, Hongkong,

, ''Staub'' * 1988, Hongkong,

Tan Dun Tan Dun (, ; born 18 August 1957) is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor. A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a pairing which has shaped much of his life and mu ...

, ''In Distance'' * 1988, Hongkong,

, ''Orion and the Pleiades'' * 1989, Amsterdam,

, Canzone II * 1989, Amsterdam, Unsuk Chin, ''Gradus ad infinitum''* 1989, Amsterdam, Stefano Gervasoni, ''Un recitativo'' * 1989, Amsterdam, Fausto Romitelli, ''Have your trip'' * 1989, Amsterdam, Kaija Saariaho, ''Nymphea'' (Arditti Quartet) * 1990, Oslo, Uros Rojko, ''Der Atem der verletzten Zeit'' * 1990, Oslo, Iannis Xenakis, ''Epicycles'' * 1990, Oslo,

Alfred Schnittke Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody (composer), Ivan Moody as a ...

, Concerto Grosso I * 1990, Oslo, Giacinto Scelsi, ''Ygghur'' * 1990, Oslo, Louis Andriessen, ''La Voce'' * 1990, Oslo,

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before Presidency of John Adams, his presidency, he was a leader of ...

, ''Shaker Loops'' * 1990, Oslo, Daniel Ott, ''Zampugn'' * 1990, Oslo, Mauricio Kagel, Musik für Tasteninstrumente und Orchester * 1990, Oslo,

, ''Rain Spell'' * 1990, Oslo, György Ligeti, ''Ramifications'' * 1990, Oslo,

, Viola concerto * 1990, Oslo, Vinko Globokar, ''Kolo'' * 1990, Oslo, Tristan Murail, ''Allégories'' * 1990, Oslo, Gérard Grisey, ''Partiels'' * 1991, Zürich, Rolf Liebermann, ''3 x 1 = CH + X'' * 1991, Zürich, Klaus Huber, ''Erniedrigt – geknechtet – verlassen – verachtet...'' * 1991, Zürich, Heinz Holliger, Scardanelli-Zyklus * 1991, Zürich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, ''In Freundschaft'' * 1991, Zürich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, ''Mikrophonie I'' * 1991, Zürich, Wolfgang Rihm, Hölderlin-Fragmente * 1991, Zürich, Friedrich Cerha, 2nd String Quartet * 1991, Zürich, Liza Lim, ''Voodoo Child'' * 1991, Zürich, Mauricio Kagel, ''Sonant'' * 1992, Warszawa, Krzysztof Penderecki, ''The Devils of Loudun'' * 1992, Warszawa, Matthias Pintscher, 2nd String Quartet * 1992, Warszawa, Daniel Ott, ''Molto semplicemente'' * 1992, Warszawa, Hans Wüthrich-Mathez, ''Annäherungen an Gegenwart'' * 1992, Warszawa, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, ''Beatus Vir'' * 1993, Mexiko-City,

, ''Reigen seliger Geister'' (Arditti Quartet) * 1993, Mexiko-City,

, 4th String Quartet (Arditti Quartet) * 1993, Mexiko-City, Hilda Paredes, ''Oxkintok'' * 1993, Mexiko-City,

, ''Esplorazione del bianco'' * 1993, Mexiko-City, Conlon Nancarrow, ''Estudios'' #21 (canon X), #3a (from ''Boogie-Woogie Suite''), #36, #12, #29, #43, Cuarteto No. 1, #37, #41c, ''Contraption'' #1, ''Toccata for violin and mechanic piano,'' ''Cuarteto'' No. 3 (Arditti Quartet) * 1994, Stockholm, Caspar Johannes Walter, ''Durchscheinende Etüden, Simultankonzept IV'' * 1994, Stockholm, Fausto Romitelli, ''La Sabbia del Tempo'' * 1994, Stockholm, Uros Rojko, ''Et puis plus rien le rève'' * 1994, Stockholm, Klaus Huber, ''Des Dichters Pflug'' * 1994, Stockholm, Rolf Riehm, ''Weeds in Ophelia’s Hair'' * 1994, Stockholm,

Henri Pousseur Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur (; 23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian classical composer, teacher, and music theorist. Biography Pousseur was born in Malmedy and studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 19 ...

, ''Scambi'' * 1994, Stockholm,

, ''Perspectives'' * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, Peter Eötvös, ''Psychokosmos'' * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, György Kurtág, ''Grabstein für Stephan'' op. 15c (Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, György Kurtág, ''Stele'' op. 33 (Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, Luigi Nono, ''Caminantes … Ayacucho'' (Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des SWF) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet,

, ''Echoes of Time and the River,'' Four Processionals for Orchestra * 1995, Ruhrgebiet,

, ''Piano and Orchestra'' * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, Giacinto Scelsi, ''Hymnos'' * 1995, Ruhrgebiet,

Olga Neuwirth Olga Neuwirth (; born 4 August 1968) is an Austrian contemporary classical composer, visual artist and author. She is famed especially for her operas and music theater works, many of which have treated sociopolitical themes. She has emphasized an ...

, ''Spleen'' * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, Georg Friedrich Haas, ''Nacht-Schatten'' ( Klangforum Wien, Peter Rundel) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet,

Beat Furrer Beat Furrer (born 6 December 1954) is a Swiss-born Austrian composer and conductor. He has served as professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 1991. He was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2018 ...

, ''Studie II – A un moment de terre perdu'' (Klangforum Wien, Peter Rundel) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet,

, Symphonie Nr. 7 (

BBC Symphony Orchestra The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London. Founded in 1930, it was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London, and is the only one of the city's five major symphony orchestras not to be self-governing. The ...

London, Peter Eötvös) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, John Cage, ''FOUR for string quartet'' (Arditti Quartet) * 1995, Ruhrgebiet, Sam Hayden, ''Picking Up the Pieces'' * 1996, København, Caspar Johannes Walter, ''Durchscheinende Etüden'' I-VIII/c * 1996, København, Olga Neuwirth, ''Sans Soleil'' * 1996, København,

, ''Akrostichon-Wortspiel'' * 1996, København, Francis Dhomont, ''Espace/Escape'' * 1996, København, Jonathan Harvey, ''Advaya'' * 1996, København, Carola Bauckholt, ''In gewohnter Umgebung'' II * 1996, København,

, ''Lulu'' * 1996, København, Mauricio Kagel,'' Interview avec D.'' * 1996, København, Toshio Hosokawa, ''Interim'' * 1996, København,

, ''Con Leggerezza Pensosa'' * 1997, Seoul, Gilbert Amy, ''Trois Scènes'' * 1997, Seoul, Brian Ferneyhough, ''On Stellar Magnitudes'' * 1997, Seoul, Mauricio Kagel, ''Westen'' * 1997, Seoul, Carola Bauckholt, ''Treibstoff'' * 1997, Seoul, Gérard Grisey, ''Les Chants de l’Amour'' * 1997, Seoul, Thomas Kessler, ''Voice Control'' * 1997, Seoul, John Cage, ''Music for Five'' * 1997, Seoul,

, Violin Concerto * 1998, Manchester,

, ''Worldes Blis'' (

London, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies) * 1998, Manchester,

, ''De profundis'' * 1998, Manchester, Harrison Birtwistle, ''Pulse Shadows'' (Arditti Quartet) * 1998, Manchester, Luciano Berio, ''Glosse'' (Arditti Quartet) * 1998, Manchester, Brian Ferneyhough, String Trio (Arditti Quartet) * 1998, Manchester, ''Just before'' (Rosas Dance Company,

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Anne Teresa, Baroness De Keersmaeker (, born 1960 in Mechelen, Belgium, grew up in Wemmel) is a contemporary dance choreographer. The dance company constructed around her, , was in residence at La Monnaie in Brussels from 1992 to 2007. Biogra ...

), Ictus Ensemble, * 1998, Manchester, Beat Furrer, ''Time Out'' * 1998, Manchester, Luciano Berio, ''Ekphrasis (continuo II),'' (Hallé Orchestra,

Kent Nagano Kent George Nagano (born November 22, 1951) is an American conductor and opera administrator. Since 2015, he has been ''Generalmusikdirektor'' (GMD) of the Hamburg State Opera (until 2025). Early life and education Nagano was born in Berkeley, ...

) * 1998, Manchester, Kaija Saariaho, ''Château de l’âme,'' (Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano) * 1998, Manchester,

, ''Waiting for the Wing'' * 1998, Manchester, Olivier Messiaen, ''Cinq Rechants'' (BBC Singers) * 1998, Manchester, Mauricio Kagel, ''Orchestrion-Straat'' (

London Sinfonietta The London Sinfonietta is an English contemporary chamber music, chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble has headquarters at Kings Place and is Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre. Since its inaugural concert ...

, James Wood) * 1999, Romania/Moldavia, Rebecca Saunders, ''Into the Blue'' * 2000, Luxembourg,

, ''For Philip Guston'' * 2000, Luxembourg, Moritz Eggert, ''Der Andere'' (after the novel ''The Outsider'' by H.P. Lovecraft) * 2000, Luxembourg, Mauricio Kagel, ''Duodramen'' * 2000, Luxembourg,

, The Gate, Orchestral Theatre IV (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tan Dun) * 2002, Hongkong, Krzysztof Penderecki, Concerto Grosso * 2002, Hongkong,

Terry Riley Terrence Mitchell Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist music, minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notab ...

, ''In C'' * 2002, Hongkong,

Thomas Adès Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: ''The Tempest (opera), The T ...

, ''Arcadiana'' * 2002, Hongkong, Shintaro Imai, ''La litte bleue'' * 2002, Hongkong, Kaija Saariaho, ''Graal Theatre'' * 2002, Hongkong, Guo Wenjing, ''Melodies of Western Yunnan'' * 2003, Slovenia,

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...

, ''Contes de fées'' * 2003, Slovenia, Friedrich Cerha, Five Pieces * 2003, Slovenia, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sinfonietta No. 2 (RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra) * 2003, Slovenia, Philippe Manoury, ''Metal'' (Percussions de Strasbourg) * 2003, Slovenia, Klaus Huber, ''Intarsi'' * 2003, Slovenia, Vinko Globokar, ''Zlom, Blinde Zeit, Eppure si muove'' ( Klangforum Wien, Vinko Globokar) * 2004, Switzerland, Carola Bauckholt, ''Hubschrauber'' * 2004, Switzerland,

Oscar Bianchi Oscar Bianchi (born 1975 in Milan) is a Gaudeamus Laureate composer of Italian and Swiss citizenships. He is a recipient of several international prizes and honors. He is noted for his large scale works, in particular his cantata ''Matra'' for s ...

, ''De rerum natura'' * 2004, Switzerland, Elliott Carter, ''Dialogues pour piano et orchestre'' (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne) * 2004, Switzerland,

, Violin Concerto * 2004, Switzerland, Brian Ferneyhough, ''Opus Contra Naturam'' (Ensemble Contrechamps) * 2004, Switzerland, Lars Petter Hagen, ''Voices to voices, lip to lip'' * 2004, Switzerland, Michael Jarrell, ''Abschied'' (Ensemble Contrechamps) * 2004, Switzerland, Heinz Holliger, ''Turm Musik'' (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne) * 2005, Zagreb, Aaron Cassidy, ''Metallic Dust'' * 2005, Zagreb, Panayiotis Kokoras, ''Holophony'' * 2005, Zagreb, Wolfgang Rihm, ''Chiffre VI'' * 2005, Zagreb, Fausto Romitelli, ''Amok Koma'' * 2005, Zagreb, Beat Furrer, ''Presto con fuoco'' * 2005, Zagreb,

Uri Caine Uri Caine (born June 8, 1956) is an American classical music, classical and jazz pianist and composer from Philadelphia. Biography Early years Caine was born on June 8, 1956, in Philadelphia, to Burton Caine (1928–2023), a professor at Temple ...

, ''Trio'' * 2006, Stuttgart, German Toro-Pérez, ''Stadtplan von New York'' ( ensemble mosaik, Enno Poppe) * 2006, Stuttgart, Mauricio Kagel, ''Phonophonie'' * 2006, Stuttgart, Johannes Kreidler, ''RAM microsystems'' * 2006, Stuttgart, Panayiotis Kokoras, ''Paranormal'' * 2006, Stuttgart, Dai Fujikura, ''Okeanos Breeze'' ( Ensemble recherche) * 2006, Stuttgart, Jennifer Walshe, ''meanwhile, back at the ranch'' * 2006, Stuttgart, Fausto Romitelli, ''An Index of Metals'' ( Ensemble musikFabrik, Barbara Hannigan) * 2006, Stuttgart, Julio Estrada, ''Murmullos del páramo'' ( Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Mike Svoboda, Ko Ishikawa, Stefano Scodanibbio, Llorenç Barber, Magnus Andersson) * 2013, Kosice/Bratislava/Wien, Unsuk Chin, ''snagS&Snarls'' * 2013, Kosice/Bratislava/Wien,

, ''Phasma'' * 2013, Kosice/Bratislava/Wien, Arvo Pärt, ''Spiegel im Spiegel'' * 2013, Kosice/Bratislava/Wien, Kaija Saariaho, ''Aile du songe'' * 2013, Kosice/Bratislava/Wien, Jennifer Walshe, ''Silently & Very fast''* 2014, Wroclaw, Thomas Vaquié, ''O (Omicron)'' * 2014, Wroclaw, Frederik Neyrinck, ''Contr’Action II'' (Klangforum Wien) * 2014, Wroclaw, Samuel Holloway, ''Village'' (Klangforum Wien) * 2014, Wroclaw, Pierluigi Billone, ''Eben und anders'' (Klangforum Wien) * 2014, Wroclaw, Peter Eötvös, ''Angels in America'' * 2014, Wroclaw, Krzysztof Penderecki, ''Paradise Lost'' * 2014, Wroclaw,

Ryoji Ikeda Ryoji Ikeda (池田亮司 ''Ikeda Ryōji'', born 1966) is a Japanese Visual arts, visual and sound artist who currently lives and works in Paris, France. Ikeda's music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of "raw" states, such as sine ...

,'' Datamatics'' * 2014, Wroclaw, György Ligeti, ''Lux Aeterna'' * 2014, Wroclaw, Stefan Prins, ''Piano Hero #1'' * 2015, Ljubljana, Hector Parra, ''inFALL'' * 2015, Ljubljana, Vito Žuraj, ''Hawk-Eye'' * 2016, Tongyeong, Isao Matsushita, ''Prayer of the Firmament'' (Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra) * 2016, Tongyeong, Pierre Boulez, ''Dérive'' ( Hong Kong New Music Ensemble) * 2016, Tongyeong, Randolph Peters, ''Hallucinations'' (Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra) * 2018, Beijing, Jia Guoping, ''The Pine-soughing Valley'' (China National Symphony Orchestra) * 2018, Beijing, Caleb Burhans, ''Escape Wisconsin'' (Alarm Remix) (

Alarm Will Sound Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member chamber orchestra that focuses on recordings and performances of contemporary classical music. Its performances have been described as "equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity" by the ''Financial Times ...

) * 2018, Beijing, Guo Wenjing, ''Wild Fire'' (Bamboo Flute Concerto Nr. 2) (Hanzhou Philharmonic Orchestra) * 2019, Tallinn,

Wim Henderickx Wim Henderickx (; 17 March 196218 December 2022) was a Belgian composer of contemporary classical music. He was composer in residence at Muziektheater Transparant and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, writing operas and other stage works. His m ...

, ''Blossoming. Three Prayers for a Better World'' (Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putnins) * 2019, Tallinn, Alexander Schubert, ''Star Me Kitten'' * 2019, Tallinn, Stefan Prins, ''Generation Kill – offspring 1'' * 2019, Tallinn, Liza Lim, ''Burning House

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