The 20th workshop for the youngest composers will take place in Hradec nad Moravicí from 5 to 8 June 2025 Please send the application form by 30.4.2025 and the composition by 30.5.2025 at the latest to: Markéta Dvořáková, Spojů 852/1, 708 00, Ostrava – Poruba or to the email address: (tel. 732 758 730). You can also … Read more
Witold Lutosławski National Forum of Music in Wrocław announces a competition for a musical project related to the theme of the 60th International Festival Wratislavia Cantans Festival – Paradise Lost [?] The competition is open to chamber music ensembles consisting of three to eight members, whose average age is no more than thirty-two years, and the oldest … Read more
6th Vienna International Music Competition (PIANO – STRINGS – VOICE – WIND – CHAMBER MUSIC – COMPOSERS) Over 50.000€ in prizes – ALL ages ONLINE COMPETITION (Video Selection) APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 FEBRUARY 2025 FIRST Category: WINNERS’ concert in vienna (MUSIKVEREIN) Winners’ concerts at: MUSIKVEREIN (VIENNA) (Brahms Saal): Saturday, 19 APRIL 2025 More info here: https://www.viennacompetition.com/
As every year, NIPOS Artama organizes the International Composition Competition Opus ignotum. Its 13th edition is aimed at children’s choirs and has a deadline of 30 April 2025. More about proposition: https://www.nipos.cz/propozice-opus-ignotum/
I-Park is soliciting applications for its fully funded General Residency Program. These onsite, multidisciplinary residencies are open to artists and designers working in the visual arts, creative writing, music composition, moving image, architecture, interdisciplinary practice and landscape/garden design. The residency season runs from May 20 – November 24, 2025. All sessions are 4-weeks in duration … Read more
This year’s last issue of Czech Music Quarterly 4/2024 is available online and in print. Among other things, you can read an interview with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, which is also available online on our website.
Czech Music Information Centre releases a new CD in the Composer Portraits series, dedicated to the composer Rudolf Komorous. The recording features a single composition by Wu (2002-2003) for solo piano. The performer is Belgian pianist Daan Vandewalle. The CD can be found on Bandcamp and ordered at or simultaneously with the Czech Music Quarterly magazine. … Read more
Portrait of the composer Rudolf Komorous CD / Digital download / Free streaming Rudolf Komorous, born in Czechoslovakia in 1931, has had two distinct lives: the first, in Prague, as a composer, bassoonist in the Smetana Theatre orchestra, member of the Šmidrové artists’ group, and co-director, with Petr Kotík, of Musica Viva Pragensis; the second, from … Read more
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG COMPOSERS XI EDITION 2025 Compositions for ensemble and solo instrument Sofia (Bulgaria), 26 July – 3 August 2025 Venue National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov”, Sofia Tutors Peter Kerkelov, Mauro Lanza, Fabien Lévy Ensemble in residence Divertimento Ensemble Conductor Sandro Gorli Application deadline 31 January 2025 Maximum number of students 14, compositions for ensemble … Read more
New book just released by the Czech Music Information Centre In this highly personal and thoroughly researched volume, composer Jaroslav Šťastný (Peter Graham) introduces his perspective on John Cage, one of the strongest compositional voices of the twentieth century. Comprised of two older essays and the recent text that gives this volume its name, The Smiling … Read more
