MUSICOLOGY students - interesting offer Impuls 2015 - Graz, Austria

We would hereby like to draw your attention to the international impuls Composition Competition and the 9th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music 2015 – registration for both programs has already started. See the FLYER for more information!

impuls . 9th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music

Graz/Austria, February 13th - 25th, 2015

Registration has already started ... 

Founded by Beat Furrer and Ernst Kovacic impuls, the International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music and Association for the Communication of Contemporary Music has developed into one of the internationally leading institutions in this field within shortly. Instrumental classes and ensemble work, composition classes and special programs such as Ensemble meets Composers, Reading sessions with Klangforum Wien, Open Composers´ Pool, electronic and improvisation workshops …: Every second year the impuls Academy offers young musicians and composers – from Austria, but also from all over the world – an intense training and holistic approach to contemporary music, both in a theoretical and practical way. For about 14 days impuls hereby builds an important platform for joint working, mutual learning and international exchange in Graz, Styria. An international team of renowned musicians and composers as lecturers guarantees highest quality and builds the basis for excellently educated, highly motivated and internationally interlinked young musicians and composers as competent and authentic messengers of music as a language without borders.

 

impuls . International Composition Competition

impuls promotes and supports young composers not only within its Academy, but also through the impuls Composition Competition. 

impuls commissions up to 6 new works for ensemble every second year from young composers selected by a jury. Subsequently these composers are invited to take part in the impuls Composition Workshop in Vienna and Graz – where their new works are collectively rehearsed and discussed extensively with musicians of world-class ensembles such as Klangforum Wien – as well as to the premiere of their new pieces within the impuls Academy and Festival in Graz. impuls also intends to support the composers´ works beyond that through recordings respectively broadcasting and additional concerts.  

The call for the current impuls Composition Competition runs from May 31st to October 31st, 2014: please check Conditions at www.impuls.cc/competition/conditions.html + hand in your Application

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