Long presentation
Bringing New Music in Europe to new audiences around the world is the major goal for every composer and performer relevant in the field today. The high level of quality, the variety of expressions, the number of creative artists within the field of new music is both intense and numerous.
The RE:NEW MUSIC project is initiated by Nordic Composers´ Counsil, in corporation with 12 European partners from 11 countries.
The project’s main aims are to create a platform for the strengthened circulation and performance of existing high quality ensemble repertoire within the notated contemporary music field as well as to create permanent networks between European composers, new music ensembles, music information centres, composer societies and copyright associations.
22 ensembles from the 11 countries are involved, carrying out the project’s main activities in collaboration with the partners and external bodies such as festivals, other concert presenters, et.al.
All 22 ensembles have chosen eight works from their own national repertoire by living composers, making a pool of 176 works. Each ensemble performs at least 4 works from the project over a two year period, which means not less than 88 great performances in concert halls all over Europe during the first project period. The first concert is scheduled for Katowice, Poland in April this year.
Around each work the ensemble will receive funding from the project to rehearse and perform the piece and build a context around it: invite the composer for a residency, do workshops, seminars and open rehearsals - to secure a true interaction and exchange and to reach out to students, new audiences, etc.
All the 176 works are now registered in an intranet based, closed and password protected database on this site with information such as instrumentation, programme note, composers biography, (studio/radio/documentation) and a PDF of the score.
The unique partner structure of RE:NEW MUSIC will establish a permanent network between European composers, ensembles, music centres, composer societies and copyright associations across the project’s 11 European countries. The diversity of the group creates exciting possibilities to establish a dynamic networking platform on which topics of common interest for the partners and their respective music environments can be discussed and common action taken.
The project is running up until November 2010, and is coordinated and managed by the Danish Composers´ Society in Copenhagen, and funded by the EU Culture Programme and the Nordic Council of Ministers, in addition to contribution from the 12 partners in the project.
