The International Festival of Contemporary Music, the music section of the world-famous Venice Biennale, was founded in 1930 and takes place each year in September and October. As in previous years, the festival has issued an open call for young composers and performers to take part in the Biennale College Musica 2024.
The festival will choose five composers and six musicians under the age of 30 to take part in an eight-week program of exploration, research, creation, and production in Venice, under the guidance of internationally renowned mentors. The resulting works will be premiered at La Biennale die Venezia’s 8th International Festival of Contemporary Music, taking place from September 26th to October 10th, 2024.
COMPOSERS
The festival has issued five calls for new compositions: for string quartet, for piano, for viola, for electronics, and for percussion. The new scores will be performed by the Quatuor Béla string quartet, pianist Bertrand Chamayou, violist Hannah Levinson, and percussionists Brian Archinal, Federico Tramontana, and a third percussionist selected from the call for performers.
PERFORMERS
The festival has also issued three calls for performers: for a string quartet to perform works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Helmut Lachenmann and Georg Friederich Haas; a violist da gamba who will perform works by Benedetto Marcello and Isabel Mundry (together with Cristiano Contadin on the viola da gamba and Massimo Raccanelli on the cello); and for a percussionist who will perform Gérard Grisey’s “Le noir de l’étoile”, accompanied by the Ensemble This Ensemble That and Federico Tramontana.
Deadline for all applications is January 27th, 2024!
For further information, see the Call For Applications or contact the College Musica at college-musica@labiennale.org