ARTMUSFAIR/2009 is the place to develop your music project together with European partners! Open to representatives from throughout the contemporary classical music scene, we aim to attract hundreds of composers, music publishers, record labels, musicians, promoters, managers and agents from across the whole of Europe.
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ARTMUSFAIR/2009
Shaping the Future of Contemporary Music
29 October – 01 November 2009
The 2nd edition of the new music convention platform designed for composers and professionals from the European contemporary music scene is opened in Glasgow/Scotland.
ARTMUSFAIR is devoted to strengthening the position of European contemporary classical music, its creators and makers, and aims to encourage music stakeholders to integrate more contemporary music repertoire into the framework of classical music programming in Europe.
Shaping the Future of Contemporary Music – under this challenging title, ARTMUSFAIR/2009 is open to representatives from the entire contemporary classical music scene and aims to attract some 500 composers, music publishers, record labels, musicians, promoters, managers and agents from across the whole of Europe.
Key objectives will be the building of new and closer partnerships, the exchange of new music ideas, and the sharing of the latest best-practice examples of innovation in the contemporary music world.
The City of Glasgow has been chosen to host ARTMUSFAIR/2009, following on from the pilot event that took place in Helsinki in October 2008 as part of the Nordic Music Days Festival.
Glasgow is an especially appropriate choice following the City’s recent designation as a UNESCO City of Music. The four day event has been planned to coincide with celebrations of Scottish composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ 75th birthday.
The programme will feature concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as well as a number of performances of the very latest contemporary music by smaller Scottish, UK and European ensembles and by students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The programme will also include a number of project presentations and workshops on specific subjects, a late night concert lounge and various other live performances and show-cases of the latest in contemporary music during the event programme, so-called “open & live stages”. A contemporary music exhibition will round down the programme.
A major thrust of the conference programme is expected to be a series of high level seminars on public service broadcasting, the commissioning of music by orchestras and ensembles, arts funding and copyright. The aim is to stimulate an intensive and path-leading debate as a step towards producing a “European Composers’ Declaration” for the future of contemporary music supported by all particiapants of ARTMUSFAIR/2009.
ARTMUSFAIR/2009 is being presented by the European Composers’ Forum (ECF) in partnership with the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA). The ECF is representative o composer organisations in 28 European countries.
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