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Revision as of 01:17, 8 November 2021

International Society for Contemporary Music
International Society for Contemporary Music
AbbreviationISCM
Formation1922
FounderEgon Wellesz
OriginsSalzburg, Germany
FieldsMusic
Parent organization
Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM)
Websiteiscm.org

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

The organization was established in Salzburg 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.[1] 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.[2][3]

In 1936 the rival Permanent Council for the International Co-operation of Composers, set up under Richard Strauss, was accused of furthering Nazi Party cultural ambitions in opposition to the non-political ISCM.[4] British composer Herbert Bedford, acting as co-Secretary, defended its neutrality.[5]

Aside from hiatuses in 1940 and 1943-5 due to World War II and in 2020-21 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, 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 Tallinn, Estonia in May 2019. The 2021 WMD in Shanghai and Nanning has been postponed until March 2022[6] and the 2022 WNMD is scheduled to take place in New Zealand in August 2022.[7]

From left: György Ligeti, his son Lukas, his wife Vera Spitz, Conlon Nancarrow and Michael Daugherty at ISCM World Music Days in Graz, Austria, 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.[8]

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.[9] ISCM is a member of the International Music Council. The current members of the Executive Committee of the ISCM (as of the September 2021 General Assembly which took place over Zoom) are: Glenda Keam (New Zealand), President[10]; Frank J. Oteri (USA), Vice President; Ol'ga Smetanova (Slovakia), Secretary General; David Pay (Canada), Treasurer; George Kentros (Sweden), Tomoko Fukui (Japan), and Irina Hasnaș (Romania)[11].

Specific renditions

National sections

Africa

Asia

  • China China
    • ISCM BEIJING SECTION
    • ISCM – CHENGDU SECTION, ISCM
    • ISCM – NANNING SECTION
    • ISCM – SHANGHAI SECTION
    • Hong Kong ISCM – HONG KONG SECTION
    • Hong Kong Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
  • Israel ISCM – ISRAEL SECTION - The Israeli Composers' League
  • Japan ISCM – JAPANESE SECTION
  • Japan Japan Federation of Composers
  • South Korea ISCM – SOUTH KOREAN SECTION
  • South Korea Tongyeong International Music Festival
  • Taiwan ISCM – TAIWAN SECTION
  • Turkey ISCM – TURKEY SECTION
  • Vietnam Vietnam Contemporary Music Centre

Europe

Eastern Europe

  • Czech Republic Prague Spring Festival
  • Hungary ISCM – HUNGARY SECTION
  • Poland ISCM – POLAND SECTION
  • Romania ISCM – ROMANIA SECTION
  • Romania ARFA (Association of Women in Art)
  • Russia ISCM – RUSSIA SECTION
  • Russia Society for Contemporary Music Russia
  • Slovakia ISCM – SLOVAKIA SECTION
  • Slovakia Music Centre Slovakia
  • Slovenia ISCM – SLOVENIA SECTION
  • Ukraine Association for New Music, Ukraine

Northern Europe

  • Denmark ISCM – DANISH SECTION
  • Estonia ISCM – ESTONIAN SECTION
  • Faroe Islands ISCM – FAROE ISLANDS SECTION
  • Finland ISCM – FINNISH SECTION
  • Iceland ISCM – ICELANDIC SECTION
  • Republic of Ireland ISCM – IRISH SECTION Association of Irish Composers
  • Republic of Ireland Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
  • Latvia ISCM – LATVIAN SECTION
  • Lithuania ISCM – LITHUANIAN SECTION
  • Norway ISCM – NORWEGIAN SECTION
  • Sweden ISCM – SWEDISH SECTION
    • ISCM – GOTLAND SECTION
  • United Kingdom ISCM – BRITISH SECTION Sound and Music
    • Wales ISCM – WELSH SECTION
    • Scotland Scottish Music Centre

Southern Europe

  • Croatia ISCM – CROATIAN SECTION
  • Greece ISCM – GREEK SECTION
  • Italy ISCM – ITALIAN SECTION
  • Portugal ISCM – PORTUGUESE SECTION
  • Serbia ISCM – SERBIAN SECTION
  • Spain ISCM – SPANISH SECTION
  • Spain Musikagileak (Basque Region)
  • Spain COSIMTE (Canary Islands)

Western Europe

  • Austria ISCM – AUSTRIAN SECTION
  • Belgium Belgium
    • Flanders ISCM – FLEMISH SECTION
    • Wallonia ISCM – WALLONIAN SECTION
  • France ISCM – FRENCH SECTION
  • Germany ISCM – GERMAN SECTION
  • Luxembourg ISCM – LUXEMBOURG SECTION
  • Netherlands Nieuw Geneco – New Association of Dutch Composers
  • Switzerland ISCM – SWISS SECTION
  • Switzerland Festival l'Art pour l'Aar

North America

Oceania

South America

References

  1. ^ "archives.nypl.org – League of Composers/ISCM records". Archives.nypl.org. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  2. ^ Fauser, AnneGret. 'The Scholar behind the Medal: Edward J. Dent (1876–1957) and the Politics of Music History', in Journal of the Royal Musical Association Vol. 139, No. 2 (2014), pp. 235–260
  3. ^ Haas, Michael. 'Egon Wellesz: The Forgotten Modernist', in Forbidden Music, 4 June 2014
  4. ^ Fanning, David (ed.). The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938–1945
  5. ^ Bedford, Herbert. Letter to The Musical Times, February 1936, p 159
  6. ^ "2021 Shanghai, Nanning". www.iscm.org. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  7. ^ "2022 New Zealand". www.iscm.org. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ ISCM (24 May 2018). "World New Music Magazine". Iscm.org. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  10. ^ Newly Elected ISCM ExCom - Glenda Keam is New President, iscm.org, 2019.
  11. ^ Executive Committee, iscm.org, 2021.
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