ISCM WORLD NEW MUSIC DAYS 2025 IN PORTUGAL
SELECTED WORKS
Selected works for performance at the World New Music Days 2025 from ISCM sections & Full associated members submissions, list arranged alphabetically by the name of the submitter.
Submitter: ISCM Arfa
Composer: Carmen Cârneci
Work: HESPER(Í)A
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM AUSTRALIAN SECTION
Composer: Dan Walker
Work: Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
International Jury selection
Category: 11 Youth Choir
Submitter: ISCM AUSTRALIAN SECTION
Composer: Robert McIntyre
Work: A Sea Spray of Ash
International Jury selection
Category: 08 Duos
Submitter: ISCM AUSTRIAN SECTION
Composer: Tomasz Skweres
Work: Suite Macabre
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM BRITISH SECTION
Composer: Sam Hayden
Work: Die Abkehr (Turning Away)
International Jury selection
Category: 02 Large Ensemble – 10-15 musicians
Submitter: ISCM CANADIAN SECTION
Composer: Chris Sivak
Work: Alouette Meets Her Maker
International Jury selection
Category: 11 Youth Choir
Submitter: ISCM CANADIAN SECTION
Composer: Roxanne Turcotte
Work: Masques et dichotomies
International Jury selection
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Submitter: ISCM CHENGDU SECTION
Composer: Yuan Guo
Work: Chilly River and Snow
International Jury selection
Category: 03 Medium Ensemble – 8-13 musicians
Submitter: ISCM CHILE SCD SECTION
Composer: Daniel Osorio
Work: … y no me toques
International Jury selection
Category: 06 String Quartet
Submitter: ISCM CROATIAN SECTION
Composer: Helena Skljarov
Work: The Portrait of Dora P.
International Jury selection
Category: 01 Orchestra
Submitter: ISCM CROATIAN SECTION
Composer: Mirela Ivičević
Work: Innate Heaven (Music for Religious Institutions, Chapter I)
International Jury selection
Category: 11 Youth Choir
Submitter: ISCM DANISH SECTION
Composer: Aske Zidore
Work: Livets Midte (“Center of Life”)
International Jury selection
Category: 14 Small-size, Audio / Visual Installations
Submitter: ISCM ESTONIAN SECTION
Composer: Tatjana Kozlova Johannes
Work: Ainult õhk (Just Air)
International Jury selection
Category: 04 Small Ensemble – 5-8 musicians
Submitter: ISCM FAROE ISLANDS SECTION
Composer: Anna Katrin Egilstrød
Work: VITI
International Jury selection
Category: 14 Small-size, Audio / Visual Installations
Submitter: ISCM FINNISH SECTION
Composer: Leevi Räsänen
Work: the two childhoods
International Jury selection
Category: 06 String Quartet
Submitter: ISCM FINNISH SECTION
Composer: Ville Aslak Raasakka
Work: The Harvest
International Jury selection
Category: 02 Large Ensemble – 10-15 musicians
Submitter: ISCM FLEMISH SECTION
Composer: Murielle Lemay
Work: Augur
International Jury selection
Category: 01 Orchestra
Submitter: ISCM GERMAN SECTION
Composer: Eloain Lovis Hübner
Work: crunch modes 1.0
International Jury selection
Category: 03 Medium Ensemble – 8-13 musicians
Submitter: ISCM GOTLAND SECTION
Composer: Hanna Hartman
Work: The navigators
International Jury selection
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Submitter: ISCM GREEK SECTION
Composer: Leontios Hadjileontiadis
Work: Platonic Solids
International Jury selection
Category: 03 Medium Ensemble – 8-13 musicians
Submitter: ISCM HONG KONG SECTION
Composer: Hong yu Leung
Work: Variations
International Jury selection
Category: 06 String Quartet
Submitter: ISCM HUNGARIAN SECTION
Composer: Bence Kutrik
Work: Chorale Machine
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM ICELANDIC SECTION
Composer: Haukur Tómasson
Work: Air Sculptured
International Jury selection
Category: 05 String Ensemble – 10-13 musicians
Submitter: ISCM IRISH SECTION
Composer: Jonathan Nangle
Work: Artificial Blissful State
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM ISRAELI SECTION
Composer: Omri Abram
Work: Time passes Time
International Jury selection
Category: 02 Large Ensemble – 10-15 musicians
Submitter: ISCM JAPANESE SECTION
Composer: Komei Itoh
Work: OBJECTs253
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM LATVIAN SECTION
Composer: Krists Auznieks
Work: Turning the Wheel
International Jury selection
Category: 04 Small Ensemble – 5-8 musicians
Submitter: ISCM LITHUANIAN SECTION
Composer: Rytis Mažulis
Work: Timeless
International Jury selection
Category: 05 String Ensemble – 10-13 musicians
Submitter: ISCM Music Centre Slovakia
Composer: Jana Kmiťová
Work: Sie fuhr in die nacht
International Jury selection
Category: 02 Large Ensemble – 10-15 musicians
Submitter: ISCM Music on Main Vancouver
Composer: Alfredo Santa Ana
Work: The River of Hellos and Goodbyes
International Jury selection
Category: 11 Youth Choir
Submitter: ISCM Musikagileak
Composer: María Eugenia Luc
Work: Forest
International Jury selection
Category: 03 Medium Ensemble – 8-13 musicians
Submitter: ISCM NANNING SECTION
Composer: Liu Rui
Work: The other shore flower
Section selection
Category: 06 String Quartet
Submitter: ISCM NETHERLANDS SECTION
Composer: Hawar Tawfiq
Work: M.C. Escher’s Imagination
International Jury selection
Category: 01 Orchestra
Submitter: ISCM NETHERLANDS SECTION
Composer: Silvia Borzelli
Work: A Self portrait
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM NEW ZEALAND SECTION
Composer: Chris Cree Brown
Work: Evanecse
International Jury selection
Category: 05 String Ensemble – 10-13 musicians
Submitter: ISCM NORWEGIAN SECTION
Composer: Erik Dæhlin
Work: Flickering Site
International Jury selection
Category: 14 Small-size, Audio / Visual Installations
Submitter: ISCM NORWEGIAN SECTION
Composer: Natasha Barrett
Work: Impossible Moments from Venice 3 / The Other Side of the Lagoon
International Jury selection
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Submitter: ISCM POLISH SECTION
Composer: Agata Zemla
Work: To bee or not to bee
International Jury selection
Category: 04 Small Ensemble – 5-8 musicians
Submitter: ISCM PORTUGUESE SECTION
Composer: Fátima Fonte
Work: Cartas Portuguesas
International Jury selection
Category: 08 Duos
Submitter: ISCM PORTUGUESE SECTION
Composer: Gonçalo Gato
Work: Elementos
International Jury selection
Category: 07 Trio
Submitter: ISCM Prague Spring Festival
Composer: Jan Dušek
Work: Unsent Letter
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM ROMANIAN SECTION
Composer: Alexandru Murariu
Work: Knots III
Section selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM Scottish Music Centre
Composer: Emily Doolittle
Work: Gannetry
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM SERBIAN SECTION
Composer: Veljko Nenadić Gorgons
Work: Three Mythical Creatures
International Jury selection
Category: 01 Orchestra
Submitter: ISCM SHANGHAI SECTION
Composer: Jianing He
Work: Fluttering with the wind
Section selection
Category: 12 Tradtional Portuguese Instruments
Submitter: ISCM SLOVAK SECTION
Composer: Lenka Novosedlíková
Work: VPD
Section selection
Category: 07 Trio
Submitter: ISCM SLOVENIAN SECTION
Composer: Tilen Lebar
Work: Hassan
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM SOUTH KOREAN SECTION
Composer: Shin Kim
Work: KALEIDOSCOPE
International Jury selection
Category: 02 Large Ensemble – 10-15 musicians
Submitter: ISCM SPANISH SECTION
Composer: José Luis Perdigón de Paz
Work: Torque
International Jury selection
Category: 07 Trio
Submitter: ISCM Stephen F. Austin State University
Composer: Panayiotis Kokoras
Work: Useless Box
International Jury selection
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Submitter: ISCM SWEDISH SECTION
Composer: Mauro Godoy Villalobos
Work: MOODS for string ensemble
International Jury selection
Category: 05 String Ensemble – 10-13 musicians
Submitter: ISCM TAIPEI SECTION
Composer: Tsu -Yao Yang
Work: Bleu II
International Jury selection
Category: 06 String Quartet
Submitter: ISCM USA SECTION
Composer: Barbara Jazwinski
Work: Soliloquy
International Jury selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM Vietnam Contemporary Music Centre
Composer: Nguyen Hong Anh
Work: Quiet Moment
Section selection
Category: 10 Solo Works
Submitter: ISCM WALLONIA BRUSSELS SECTION
Composer: Jinwook Jung
Work: unerasing
International Jury selection
Category: 01 Orchestra
Submitter: ISCM WELSH SECTION
Composer: Ashley John Long
Work: Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge
International Jury selection
Category: 07 Trio
Submitter: ISCM Young Composers Award
Composer: Jug Marković
Work: new work
Board selection
Category: 02 Large Ensemble – 10-15 musicians
Selected works For Performance at the World New Music Days 2025 from Individual submissions, list arranged alphabetically by the first name of composer
Composer: Alexis Bacon
Work: In the Foreign Land
International Jury selection
Country: USA
Category: 10 Solo Works
Composer: Annette Vande Gorne
Work: VOX ALIA IV: Vox Populi
International Jury selection
Country: Belgium
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Composer: Barry Truax
Work: What The Waters Told Me
International Jury selection
Country: Canada
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Composer: Bekah Simms
Work: spore wind ii: swamp thing
International Jury selection
Country: Canada / Scotland
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Composer: Cecilia Damström
Work: Ice
International Jury selection
Country: Finland
Category: 01 Orchestra
Composer: Cláudio de Pina
Work: Neurotransmits
International Jury selection
Country: Portugal
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Composer: Dániel Péter Biró
Work: Kilkul (Breakdown)
International Jury selection
Country: Hungary, Canada, U.S.A.
Category: 10 Solo Works
Composer: George Christofi
Work: Reflect
International Jury selection
Country: Cyprus
Category: 10 Solo Works
Composer: Gilles Gobeil
Work: Un cercle hors de l'arbre
International Jury selection
Country: Canada
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Composer: Ji-Hyang Kim
Work: Nachtmusik für Streicher
International Jury selection
Country: South-Korea
Category: 05 String Ensemble – 10-13 musicians
Composer: Jim O'Leary
Work: Susan Pennefather Gray
International Jury selection
Country: Canada
Category: 08 Duos
Composer: Manuella Blackburn
Work: Home Truths
International Jury selection
Country: UK
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Composer: Marta Cerqueira & Simão Costa
Work: #6 Propagação
International Jury selection
Country: Portugal
Category: 14 Small-size, Audio / Visual Installations
Composer: Sonia Bo
Work: Variazioni di Luci
International Jury selection
Country: Italy
Category: 01 Orchestra
Composer: Todor Todoroff
Work: Voices Part IV Hallucinations
International Jury selection
Country: Belgium
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Composer: Youngjae Cho
Work: mirrored: ceilings, floors, walls
International Jury selection
Country: South Korea
Category: 13 Electroacoustic Music
Composer: Yuri Demetz
Work: All encompassing Snapshots
International Jury selection
Country: Italy
Category: 01 Orchestra
The ISCM WNMD 2025 Call for Works jury members:
Adrian Moore (UK)
Ângela da Ponte (Portugal)
Doina Rotaru (Romania)
Flo Menezes (Brazil)
Franz Martin Olbrisch (Germany)
Gilles Gobeil (Canada)
Guillaume Bourgogne (France)
John McLachlan (Ireland)
Lorraine Vaillancourt (Canada)
Masataka Matsuo (Japan)
Michal Rataj (Czech Republic)
Miguel Azguime (Portugal)
Peter Swinnen (Belgium)
Petter Sundkvist (Sweden)
Ramón Souto (Spain)
Rozalie Hirs (Netherlands)
Rui Penha (Portugal)
Valerio Sannicandro (Italy)
The ISCM WNMD 2025 partner ensembles (conductors, artistic directors, musicians) and soloists also participate in the works’ evaluation process.
The ISCM WNMD 2025 Call for Works was open between February 15 and April 25 for 6.048.000 seconds, 100.800 minutes, 1680 hours, 70 days, 10 weeks, 19% of 2024.
SOME ISCM WNMD 2025 CALL FOR WORKS STATISTICS
Total number of submitted works: 441
Official Submissions · Number of submitted works: 289
Individual Submissions · Number of submitted works: 152
CALL FOR WORKS
(CLOSED ON APRIL 25TH, 2024)
The jury selection of the works occurred in July/August 2024.
The announcement of the works selected will occur by the end of September 2024.
For additional information, please contact the festival organiser by e-mail: wnmdays2025-portugal@misomusic.com
GENERAL REMARKS
Miso Music Portugal has constructed the Call for Works for the ISCM World New Music Days 2025, considering a selection of the established and most renowned and talented Portuguese musicians, groups, ensembles, and orchestras. Each Call Category includes their names. In this manner, we guarantee the highest performance quality of all the works selected by an international jury of contemporary music experts.
In the selection process, the jury will give preference to pieces that are up to 10 minutes long, apart from the Youth Choir Category (no. 11), where the duration is no more than five minutes, and apart from the Small-Size Audio/ Visual Installations Category (no. 14) with no duration limit. Preference will also be given to works created after 2015, and works created after 2020 will receive the highest priority. Moreover, the jury will particularly favour compositions that resonate with or contribute to the ISCM WNMD 2025 theme, “Thirst for Change”. Please follow the link for more information about the festival’s theme: LINK.
The submissions can include already premiered, performed, and yet-to-be-premiered works; the submitted pieces can be published or unpublished.
The international jury of the ISCM WNMD 2025 Call for Works includes the following composers, conductors, and performers: Adrian Moore (United Kingdom), Ângela da Ponte (Portugal), Doina Rotaru (Romania), Flo Menezes (Brazil), Franz Martin Olbrisch (Germany), Gilles Gobeil (Canada), Guillaume Bourgogne (France), John McLachlan (Ireland), Lorraine Vaillancourt (Canada), Masataka Matsuo (Japan), Michal Rataj (Czech Republic), Miguel Azguime (Portugal), Peter Swinnen (Belgium), Petter Sundkvist (Sweden), Ramón Souto (Spain), Rozalie Hirs (the Netherlands), Rui Penha (Portugal) and Valerio Sannicandro (Italy).
By submitting works in response to the ISCM WNMD 2025 Call for Works, composers agree that if their work is selected for performance/ presentation, then they grant automatic permission for recording, broadcasting, and streaming the ISCM performance/ presentation of their work without additional financial liability to the ISCM or the ISCM WNMD 2025 organisers.
CATEGORIES
NOTE: The jury will give preference to pieces that are up to 10 minutes long, apart from the Youth Choir Category (no. 11), where the duration is no more than five minutes.
ORCHESTRA (with or without electronics **)
a) Concert 1 · Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra (max: 2.2.2.2 – 2.2.0.0 – 2 perc – 7.6.5.4.2) *
b) Concert 2 · Porto Symphony Orchestra Casa da Música (max: 4.4.4.3 – 4.4.3.1 – timp + 3 perc – hp – 14.12.10.8.6) *
c) Concert 3 · Gulbenkian Orchestra (max: 3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – timp + 2 perc – hp – 10.8.6.5.4) *
* Flute – can double Piccolo and Alto Flute · Clarinet – can double Bb Bass Clarinet · Oboe – can double English Horn.
** The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
LARGE ENSEMBLE – 10-15 musicians (with or without electronics **)
a) Remix Ensemble Casa da Música (max: 1.1.1.1 – 1.1.1.0 – 2 perc – pf – 2.1.1.1) *
b) Ensemble MPMP (max: 1.1.1.1 – 1.1.1.0 – 2 perc – pf – 2.1.1.1) *
* Flute – can double Piccolo and Alto Flute · Clarinet – can double Bb Bass Clarinet · Oboe – can double English Horn.
** The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
MEDIUM ENSEMBLE – 8-13 musicians (with or without electronics **)
· Concrète [Lab] Ensemble (fl, ob, cl, sax, hn, tbn, perc, pf, egtr, vn, va, vc, db) *
* Flute – can double Piccolo and Alto Flute · Clarinet – can double Bb Bass Clarinet · Oboe – can double English Horn · Saxophone – can double Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Baritone Saxophones.
** The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
SMALL ENSEMBLE – 4-8 musicians (with or without electronics **)
· Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble (sop, fl, cl, perc, pf, vn, va, vc) *
* Flute – can double Piccolo and Alto Flute · Clarinet – can double Bb Bass Clarinet.
** The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
STRING ENSEMBLE – 10-13 musicians (with or without electronics *)
· Camerata Alma Mater (max: 4.3.3.2.1)
* The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
STRING QUARTET (with or without electronics *)
· Matosinhos String Quartet (2 vn, va, vc)
* The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
TRIO (with or without electronics *)
· Sond’Ar-te Trio (pf, vn, vc)
* The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
DUOS (with or without electronics **)
a) Komorebi Duo – Camila Mandillo and João Casimiro Almeida (sop, pf)
b) Nuno Pinto and Elsa Silva (cl *, pf)
* Clarinet – can double Bb Bass Clarinet.
** The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE – 4-6 keyboard percussion instruments * (with or without electronics **)
· Percussion Ensemble of the OCP (soloists of the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra)
* Available instrumental set: 3 five-octave marimbas (C2 to C7) · 1 five-and-half octave marimba (C2 to F7) · 3 three-octave vibraphones (F3 to F6) · 1 four-octave vibraphone (C3 to C6) · 1 four-octave xylophone (C4 – C8).
** The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
SOLO WORKS (with or without electronics **)
a) Camila Mandillo (sop)
b) Nuno Pinto (cl *)
c) Henrique Portovedo (sax *)
d) Elsa Silva (pf)
e) Filipe Quaresma (vc)
* Clarinet – can double Bb Bass Clarinet · Saxophone – can double Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Baritone Saxophones.
** The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
YOUTH CHOIR *
· Youth Choir of the Lisbon University
- Four voices (SATB) with a divisi option for each voice (approximately 40 singers).
- A cappella or with piano accompaniment.
- Possible small percussion instruments and/ or body used as percussion.
- Duration: no more than 5 minutes.
* This category does not provide the possibility of electronics.
SOLO PORTUGUESE GUITAR (with or without electronics *)
· Miguel Amaral (Portuguese Guitar)
This category aims to encourage the creation of new works for this unique and virtuoso Portuguese instrument. Miguel Amaral provides a Brief Portuguese Guitar Writing Manual, and interested composers are welcome to contact the soloist at wnmdays2025-portugal@misomusic.com.
* The works submitted in this category can include live or “tape” electronics for an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system. For more details, please see the note below.
ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC (with or without video)
· Miso Music Portugal’s Loudspeaker Orchestra (40-loudspeaker system)
Electroacoustic Works (up to 16 channels)
SMALL-SIZE AUDIO/ VISUAL INSTALLATIONS *
In collaboration with the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon.
This Category has no duration limit.
* Image file formats: png, jpg · Video file formats: mp4 (normal quality), mov (Apple ProRes 422; high quality) · Sound file formats: m4a, mp3, mp4, flac, wav, aiff. Please provide a stereo version for multi-channel works (up to 6 channels).
NOTE for works with electronics.
The electronics of the submitted compositions for instruments and “tape”/ live electronics can use an up-to-four-channel loudspeaker system.
The following DAWs are recommended: Digital Performer, Reaper, Ableton Live, and Max/ MSP or Supercollider for interactive applications.
All above-mentioned software and any additional software or plug-ins must run on Mac OS (plug-ins should be freeware and/ or be supplied by the composer).