ISCM – International Society for Contemporary Music

ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) is a global organisation and network for new music with more than 50 member countries.  The organisation held its first ISCM World New Music Days in 1923 in the city of Salzburg, and since then has held an annual festival in diverse cities around the world. As a global event, the festival creates opportunities to connect composers with new audiences, new peers and musicians, as well as event organisers from around the world.  

As a member of ISCM, Art Music Denmark sends an annual open call for works from Danish composers. Art Music Denmark’s TRIM-committee then selects six works within the current year’s categories and sends the selected works onwards to ISCM World New Music Days, whose jury is tasked with selecting at least one Danish piece to be performed at the festival.

Previous Danish composers selected by the festival  

• 2022: Christian Skjødt (selected in 2020), ISCM World Music Days Festival 2020 in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand
• 2021:Jan Flessel, ISCM World Music Days Festival in Shanghai og Nanning, China / canceled due to COVID.
• 2020: Postponed until 2022 due to COVID
• 2019: No nominees 
• 2018: Simon Christensen, ISCM World Music Days Festival in Beijing, China
• 2017: Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, ISCM World Music Days Festival in Vancouver, Canada
• 2016: Toke Brorson Odin, ISCM World Music Days Festival in Tongyeong, South Korea

www.iscm.org