Monday 12 January 2015

Music Organizations in Europe

UPDATE April 2016

THE NETHERLANDS


DONEMUS AMSTERDAM Dutch Documentation Centre for Contemporary Music www.donemus.nl.
DUTCH SONG DATABASE from Middle Ages to 20. Century + audio mp3 www.liederenbank.nl.
GAUDEAMUS AMSTERDAM Excellent portal site to the music world www.gaudeamus.nl.
HUYGENS-FOKKER FOUNDATION AMSTERDAM Centre for Microtonal Music www.huygens-fokker.org.
GENOOTSCHAP NEDERLANDSE COMPONISTEN www.geneco.nl.
JAPANS CULTUREEL CENTRUM SHOFUKAN ROTTERDAM www.shofukan.nl.
JOODSE COMPONISTEN UIT HET INTERBELLUM www.joodsecomponisten.nl.
CONSERVATORIUM AMSTERDAM Information foreign students www.cva.ahk.nl.
KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM DEN HAAG www.koncon.nl.
THE ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE THE HAGUE Information foreign students www.koncon.nl.
MUSIC CENTER FRITS PHILIPS EINDHOVEN concert hall www.muziekcentrum.nl.
MUSIC CENTER THE NETHERLANDS -Donemus/Gaudeamus/Kamervraag- www.muziekcentrumnederland.nl.
MUZIEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND www.muziekcentrumnederland.nl.
RAAD VOOR CULTUUR vh. Raad voor de Kunst adviesorgaan Nederlandse regering www.cultuur.nl.
SAINT BENEDICT ABBEY MAMELIS selling all plain-chant books www.benedictusberg.nl.
STICHTING EUREGIO ZANGPROJECTEN - KOORCD.NL http://koorcd-sez.blogspot.com.
TALENT-AID INTERNATIONAL for young musicians www.talent-aid.org.
UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM department Musicology www.uva.nl.
UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT department Musicology www.uu.nl.
WMDC - WORLD MUSIC AND DANCE CENTRE ROTTERDAM www.wmdc.nl www.codarts.nl.



BELGIUM



ADRIAEN WILLAERT FOUNDATION 16. century composer www.adriaenwillaert.be.
ALAMIRE FOUNDATION International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries www.alamire.com.
CEBEDEM BRUSSELS Belgian Documentation Centre for Contemporary Music www.cebedem.be.
CRFMW Centre de Recherche et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie www.crfmw.be.
DAVIDSFONDS Institute Cultural Education www.davidsfonds.be.
FLANDERS MUSIC CENTRE BRUSSELS www.muziekcentrum.be.
FORUM DES COMPOSITEURS Wallonie-Bruxelles www.compositeurs.be.
INSTITUTE FOR LIVING VOICE www.instituteforliving voice.be.
IPEM GHENT Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music www.ipem.ugent.be.
ISCM-FLANDERS BRUSSELS Contemporary Music in Flanders www.iscm.vlaanderen.be.
LES ATELIERS DE MUSIQUE ANCIENNE NAMUR www.musiqueancienne.be.
LOGOS FOUNDATION GHENT Experimental Music in Flanders www.logosfoundation.org.
MATRIX LEUVEN New Music Documentation Centre www.arts.kuleuven.be/matrix.
KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM BRUSSELS www.kcb.be.
MUSIC INSTRUMENT MUSEUM BRUSSELS World famous collection www.mim.fgov.be.
OORGETUIGE All info about contemporary music concerts in Belgium www.oorgetuige.skynetblogs.be.
ORPHEUS INSTITUUT GHENT www.orpheusinstituut.be.
UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN www.arts.kuleuven.be/musicology/musicology.



GERMANY



BEETHOVENHAUS BONN digital archive, museum, library etc. www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de.
EARLY MUSIC DEPARTMENT at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen www.mh-trossingen.de.
FBZNM Fortbildungszentrum für Neue Musik Lueneburg www.neue-musik-lueneburg.de.
FORUM ARTIUM Norddeutsches Studienzentrum für musische Bildung www.forum-artium.de.
European Live-Electronic Centre Lüneburg www.neue-musik-lueneburg.de.
IFNM BERLIN Institute contemporary music www.ifnm-berlin.de.
MIZ German Music Information Centre www.miz.org.
MUSIKMESSE FRANKFURT www.musik.messefrankfurt.com.
NEUE SCHUBERT-AUSGABE www.schubert-ausgabe.de.
ROBERT SCHUMANN NETZWERK www.schumann-portal.de.
SCHUMANN ZWICKAU www.schumannzwickau.de.
ZENTRUM MUSIK 21 Niedersaechsische Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Lueneburg (DE)
www.zentrum-musik21.de.



FRANCE



CDMC PARIS Centre de Documentation de la Musique Contemporarine www.cdmc.asso.fr.
CERIMM Centre Européen de Recherche pour l'interprétation des Musiques Médiévale www.royaumont.com.
CIRMA Centre Itinérant de Recherche sur les Musiques Anciennes - Moissac (F)
www.organum-cirma.fr.
FEVIS PARIS Fédération des Ensembles Vocaux et Instrumentaux Spécialisés www.fevis.com.
FRANCE FESTIVALS PARIS Fédération Française Festivals Internationaux
www.francefestivals.com.
FUTURS COMPOSÉS Collectif pour création musicale contemporaine en ile-de-france www.futurscomposes.fr.
IRCAM PARIS Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique www.ircam.fr.
JEUNES TALENTS PARIS Site for promising young musicians www.jeunes-talents.org.
LIEU Le Lieu dit...European Instrumental Laboratory by Ensemble Aleph www.ensemblealeph.com:80/lelieudit.html.
RÉFÉRENCES MUSICOLOGIE.ORG La Gazetta musicale www.musicologie.org.
REMA Réseau Europeén de Musique Ancienne, European Network Early Music www.rema-eemn.net.
TEMPÓRA www.tempora-site.org.



UNITED KINGDOM



 BTP A London Sinfonietta initiative with young British composers
www.londonsinfonietta.com.uk.
CEMPR Centre for Early Music Performance and Research www.music.bham.ac.uk/cempr.
EARLY MUSIC SHOW Broadcast radio BBC www.bbc.co.uk.
JEWISH CULTURE AND EDUCATION www.spiroark.org.
SOUND AND MUSIC Organisation for new music and sound www.soundandmusic.org.
SOUTH WEST EARLY MUSIC FORUM www.swemf.org.uk.
ZARZUELA www.zarzuela.net.



IRELAND



SPATIAL MUSIC COLLECTIVE DUBLIN www.spatialmc.net.
LCMS. Louth Contemporary Music Society since 2006 www.louthcms.org.



ITALY



A.Gi.Mus Associazione Giovanile Musicale Roma www.agimus.it.
Associazione ASCANIO MAYONE Napolitano Organista (1565-1627) www.ascaniomayone.org.
NOVURGIA Arte e Musica Contemporanea www.novurgia.it.
CEMAT Ente de Promozione Music Art Technology www.cematitalia.it.
SIMC Società Italiana di Musica Contemporanea www.simc-italia.it.



POLAND



ACTE PREALABLE Promoting Polish Music and Artists www.acteprealable.com.



CZECH REPUBLIC



KONVERGENCE Young Composers' Association Prague www.konvergence.org.



PORTUGAL



CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION Music Department www.musica.gulbenkian.pt.



AUSTRIA



ARGE KOMPONISTENFORUM MITTERSILL Promoting 21st Century Music www.kofomi.com.
DIGITAL ARCHIVE ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG Arnold Schönberg Center www.schoenberg.at.
DIGITAL MOZART EDITION International Foundation Mozarteum Salzburg http://dme.mozarteum.at.
EINKLANG Documentation Komponistenforum Mittersill www.einklangrecords.com.
FRANZ SCHUBERT INSTITUT www.schubert-institut. at.



RUSSIA



INTER ASPECT St. Petersburg www.interfestplus.spb.ru.



SWEDEN



VICC Visby International Centre for Composers www.centreforcomposers.org.



SWITZERLAND



Paul Hindemith Foundation Blonay www.hindemith.org.



ESTONIA



Music Festivals in Estonia, an overview www.festivals.ee.



Friday 9 January 2015

Quotes Young Contemporary Composers

Quotes Young Composers (from  my Interviews)


- Felipe Lara (Brazil) … The 20
th century is a great example of the triumph of individual systems over collective ones…


- Svitlana Azarova (Ukrain) …I do not see any musical crisis at all...


- Juan Manuel Abras (Argentina) …I believe that composing is, in part, writing what you ´remember´. The musical work already exists, like a Platonic Idea…


- Linda Buckley (Ireland) …From a very young age I was fascinated by sound, it always seemed so magical to me, full of mystery and possibility…


- Christophe Bertrand (France) …Pour moi, un véritable compositeur est un compositeur qui a su réinterpréter les evolutions et créer un style propre: le sien…


- Christian Onyeji (Nigeria) …I would like the rich and well-known composers in Europe and America to make some contributions to the development of composition in Africa….


- Sarah Nemtsov (Germany) ...Feelings and emotions are most important for my music…


- Aleksander Nowak (Poland) ... I don´t think I can pinpoint any specific aesthetic or philosophical presuppositions in my work, at least not yet…


- Stephen Mark Barchan (GB) ...I cannot predict the future, although I do think technology will play a larger role in performance…


- Ulrich Kreppein (Germany) …Nowadays we can´t easily reduce the complex appearance of the world to one idea…



- James Wade (Australia) ...The intention behind my music is always self expression...


- Daniel Léo Simpson (USA) ...I consider my compositions to be the highest form of expression my spirit can bring forth..


- Martin Larson (Norway)... . All my music is spiritual and sacred. It is simple, quiet, meditative, clear, beautiful and complete in itself...