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New chair of the Icelandic Composers’ Society

On April 22nd Páll Ragnar Pálsson was elected new chair of the Icelandic Composers’ Society after Þórunn Gréta Sigurðardóttir who had decided not to stand again after eight years on the post. Páll Ragnar Pálsson was[…]

Open Call: Nordic Music Days 2024

Nordic Music Days is a festival presenting Nordic contemporary music and sound. The next edition of Nordic Music Days takes place in Glasgow from 30 October to 3 November 2024. The festival is a collaboration[…]

Put more new music on the program and a better gender balance will follow.

For the third time Danish Composers’ Society, Art Music Denmark, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Music Publishers’ Association Denmark, and Edition-S publish statistics on the repertoire played in Danish concert halls, opera houses and at festivals around[…]

Project manager for Nordic Music Days 2024 has been appointed!

Shortly before Christmas, Danish Composers’ Society advertised on behalf of the Nordic Composers Council the position of a project manager for the Nordic Music Days festival, which we are working to hold in Scotland in[…]

Nordic Music Days 2024 is looking for a project manager

Are you passionate about music and international collaboration? Do you have experience with project management, fundraising and process facilitation? Do you thrive on keeping several balls in the air and working with many different people?[…]

Denmark needs a composition professor

The future of music composition studies at Danish conservatories looks uncertain as the Minister of Culture has not for the time being reinstated the country’s only professorship in composition. This worries the Nordic Composers Council,[…]