ISCM World Music Days

The ISCM World Music Days is an annual contemporary music festival organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music, originally created in 1923 as the ISCM Festival as a means to support the most advanced composition tendencies.^[1][2] Each edition is held in a different location, and the programmes are organized by a jury after evaluating the submissions of each ISCM national section.

ISCM World Music Days
Genre	Contemporary music
Location(s)	worldwide
Years active	1922–present
Organized by	International Society for Contemporary Music
Website	http://www.iscm.org

Editions

György, Lukas and Vera Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow and Michael Daugherty (l.t.r.) at the 1982 ISCM World Music Days in Graz, Austria

Year Venue 1923 Salzburg 1924 Prague and Salzburg 1925 Prague and Venice 1926 Zürich 1927 Frankfurt 1928 Siena 1929 Geneva 1930 Liège and Brussels 1931 Oxford and London 1932 Vienna 1933 Amsterdam 1935 Florence 1936 Barcelona 1937 Paris 1938 London 1939 Warsaw and Kraków 1941 New York City (abbreviated festival) 1942 Berkeley, California (abbreviated festival) 1946 London 1947 Amsterdam 1948 Palermo and Taormina 1950 Brussels 1951 Frankfurt 1952 Salzburg 1953 Oslo 1954 Haifa 1955 Baden-Baden 1956 Stockholm 1957 Zürich 1958 Strasbourg 1959 Rome

Year Venue 1960 Cologne 1961 Vienna 1962 London 1963 Amsterdam 1964 Copenhague 1965 Madrid 1966 Stockholm 1967 Prague 1968 Warsaw 1969 Hamburg 1970 Basel 1971 London 1972 Graz 1973 Reykjavík 1974 Rotterdam 1975 Paris 1976 Boston 1977 Bonn 1978 Stockholm and Helsinki 1979 Athens 1980 Tel Aviv 1981 Brussels 1982 Graz 1983 Aarhus 1984 Toronto and Montreal 1985 Netherlands 1986 Budapest 1987 Cologne, Bonn and Frankfurt 1988 Hong Kong

Year Venue 1989 Amsterdam 1990 Zürich 1991 Oslo 1992 Warsaw 1993 Mexico City 1994 Stockholm 1995 Ruhr 1996 Copenhagen 1997 Seoul 1998 Manchester 1999 Romania and Moldova 2000 Luxembourg 2001 Yokohama 2002 Hong Kong 2003 Ljubljana 2004 Switzerland 2005 Zagreb 2006 Stuttgart 2007 Hong Kong 2008 Vilnius 2009 Visby, Växjö and Göteborg 2010 Sydney 2011 Zagreb 2012 Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Leuven and Mons 2013 Košice, Bratislava and Vienna 2014 Wrocław 2015 Slovenia 2016 Tongyeong 2017 Vancouver 2018 Beijing 2019 Tallinn 2020 Auckland and Christchurch (rescheduled to 2022 to the COVID-19 pandemic) 2021 Shanghai and Nanning (cancelled due to COVID-19 travel restrictions) 2022 Auckland and Christchurch 2023 South Africa 2024 Faroe Islands

Year Venue

References

1. The 80th anniversary of the ISCM World Music Days will be celebrated in Slovenia. visitljubljana.com (Official guide to Ljubljana and Centre Slovenia), 17 September 2003
2. World Music Days. De Standaard, 5 November 2012

External links

• World Music Days 2016 Tongyeong Archived 2015-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Beijing Modern Music Festival 2018 Archived 2018-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
• World Music Days 2019 Tallinn Archived 2022-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
• official website