Since 2022, Art Music Denmark has collaborated with the Danish New Music Academy on various aspects, including advising, communication, and administration, a partnership that has intensified in 2024. The academy received an overwhelming number of applications this year, both from Denmark and abroad, highlighting the positive reputation of the Danish art music scene internationally.

About Danish New Music Academy
Danish New Music Academy is a seven-day musical course designed to foster new relationships between composers and musicians and to strengthen the Danish new music environment. This year’s program will take place from June 30 to July 6 in Aarhus at the Royal Academy of Music, Institute for X and Volume. Two guest artists and a guest ensemble will join the participants, not to lecture or teach, but to perform and collaborate with them.

Applications for DNMA 2024
Applications for this year’s Danish New Music Academy opened in September 2023 and closed in early December. Interest in the academy has significantly increased, with 162 applications, a large portion from international composers and musicians, particularly from the USA. Six composers and six instrumentalists were selected.

Selected Composers and Instrumentalists for DNMA

Composers
Aftab Darvishi
Aske Kai Tengberg
Katia Geha
Liepa Vozgirdaitė
Love Carbin
Trevor Van de Velde

Instrumentalists

Andrew Anderson
Devon Osamu Tipp
Miranda Nee
Stine Benjaminsen
Zoi Argyriou
Þórhildur Magnúsdóttir

Art Music Denmark is pleased with the overwhelming interest in the program, viewing it as a testament to the positive reputation of the Danish classical and new composition music scene both domestically and internationally.

Together with other stakeholders and institutions, the Danish New Music Academy helps to raise awareness of the vibrant new composition music, classical, and sound art environment thriving in Aarhus and the surrounding areas. This environment continually inspires and excites Art Music Denmark.

Danish New Music Academy is supported by:

William Demant Fonden
Augustinus Fonden
Knud Højgaards Fond
Politiken-Fonden
Statens Kunstfond – Netværksaktiviteter
Hoffmann & Husmans Fond
Louis-Hansen Fonden
Toyota-Fonden
KODA/DKF – Produktionsstøtte
Art Music DK (til Aksiom)
VKRS Familiefond
Aarhus Musikpulje
Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium

For more information about the Danish New Music Academy, please visit their website.