ISCM World Music Days/Gaida Festival

ISCM Secretariat
c/o Gaudeamus
Piet Heinkade 5
1019 BR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-20-5191800
Fax: +31-20-5191801
Email: info@iscm.org

The World Music Days 2008 in Vilnius will have a multi-layered programme in order to assure cultural and social variety of events. The programme will consist of several large scale projects, including music theatre. There will also be symphonic, vocal, choral, and chamber music concerts, interdisciplinary and multimedia events, sound installations, and an extensive programme of academic and educational events.

This will be the first large-scale international new music gathering in the Baltic Region, and the first ISCM World Music Days in this part of Europe. The festival has invited composers from all over the world to submit works for this occasion. Two focus composers, Jonathan Harvey (GB) and Peter Eötvös (HU), will be part of an international jury selecting works which underline the chosen festival theme “InBetween”, looking at contemporary music as transit zone and middle ground. To underline the international ambitions of the festival, ISCM World Music Days / Gaida 2008 has for the first time invited an international artistic curator, Lieven Bertels (BE / NL), who made his name starting up the new Concertgebouw venue in Belgium, and currently acts as artistic co-ordinator for the famous Holland Festival (Amsterdam). In line with his fresh approach on what constitutes contemporary music, the festival will welcome multimedia installations, DJ acts and improvised music, and involve the local community, truly bringing the adventurous ISCM spirit into the 21st Century.

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