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Contemporary Music Festivals

Featured Event
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the world to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, USA to showcase their work to the public. Now in its eighth year, the Spark Festival showcases groundbreaking works of music, art, theater, and dance that feature use of new technologies. Spark invites submissions of art, dance, theater, and music works incorporating new media, including electroacoustic concert music, experimental electronica, theatrical and dance works, installations, kinetic sculpture, artbots, video, and other non-traditional genres. Past Spark Festivals have featured a diverse array of guests, including Paul Demarinis, Richard Devine, Alvin Lucier, Morton Subotnick, DJ Spooky ,Wafaa Bilal, Kanta Horio, Scanner, Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, Phillipe Manoury, Paul Lansky, and others. This coming year, the Spark Festival will take a leave from Minnesota's winter and
move to the fall season, taking place from September 28 - October 3, 2010 . . .

Check their website for more information
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Here's a list of some of the many contemporary music festivals and symposia around the world.
Tell us about any others you know of - we'd love to add them to our growing list.

Contemporary Music Festivals and Symposia

3genFestival (Washington, D.C.)
Adelaide Contemporary Music Festival
An die Musik Live - Evolution Contemporary Music Series
Annual Festival of New Organ Music
Ars Musica - International Contemporary Music Festival (Brussels, Belguim)
ARTSaha! (Omaha, Nebraska, USA)
Athens Epidaurus Festival
La Biennale di Venezia International Festival of Contemporary Music
Bonk Festival of New Music (Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL)
Borealis Festival
Cal Performances - 20th Century Music and Beyond (University of California, Berkeley, CA)
Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music (Bowdoin International Music Festival, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME)
Composer Weekends (at the Barbican) - discontinued
Composer's Choice Series at the National Concert Hall
Composers Collaborative Inc.
Composers Concordance
Contemporary Composers Festival (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra & University of Minnesota School of Music)
Contemporary Music Biennale (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Contemporary Music Festival (Indiana State University) (Terre Haute, IN)
Contemporary Music Festival (James Madison University)
Contemporary Music Festival (Ohio State University)
Contemporary Music Festival (Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK)
Contemporary Music Festival (Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX)
Contemporary Music Festival (Witchita State University, Witchita, KS)
Contemporary Music Week (Kennedy Center, National Symphony Orchestra chamber ensemble, Washington, DC)
Contemporary Showcase (Toronto, Canada)
Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society’s New Music Alberta Series (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Eletronic Music Midwest Festival (EMM) (Kansas City, Kansas)
ensemble FA (Paris, France)
Estonian Music Days
European Month of Music (Basel, Switzerland)
Festival ARS Electronica (Linz, Austria)
Festival of Contemporary Music (Tanglewood Festival, Lenox, MA)
Festival of Contemporary Music - New Music Forum
Festival of Contemporary Art Music (Washington State University)
Festival of Contemporary Chilean Music (Santiago, Chile)
Festival international Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques (Montréal, Canada)    or     in english
Festival Presences - Radio France
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival
Fresno New Music Festival (California State University, Fresno, CA)
Fromm Festival (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Gaudeamus Week
Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music (Lisbon, Spain)
Happy Nordic Music Days (Oslo, Norway)
Heidelberg Contemporary Music Biennial
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival  (Huddersfield, UK)
Icebreaker Festival - Seattle Chamber Players (Seattle, WA)v
International Society for Contemporary Music - Festival Links
ISCM-ACL World Music Days
Jaunās mūzikas festivāls ARĒNA/New Music Festival ARENA (Riga, Latvia)
John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium
John Duffy Composers Institute (Virginia Arts Festival, Old Domimion University, Norfolk, VA)
June in Buffalo (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Laboratory of Contemporary Music Festival (Warsaw, Poland)
Louisiana State University Festival of Contemporary Music
Maerz Muzik (Berlin, Germany)
MATA Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
Mediterranean Contemporary Music Days (Borusan Culture And Art, Istanbul, Turkey)
Melbourne Biennale of Exploratory Music
Modfest (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY)
Montreal/New Music International Festival (Montreal)
Music 21 (Dublin, Ireland)
Music Biennale Zagreb
MusicNow Festival
New Creations Festival (Toronto Symphony Orchestra)
New Currents Festival (Victoria Symphony, Victoria, BC)
New Music and Art Festival (MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, Bowling Green State University, OH)
New Music Connects
New Music DePaul (DePaul University, Chicago, IL)
New Music Symposium (Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO)
New Music Workshop - Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music (Litchfield, CT)
New Works Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada)
NOW Music Festival (Capital University, Columbus, OH)
Ny Musikk
Prague Premieres - New Music Festival (Czech Philharmonic)
Primavera Festival (University of California - Santa Barbara, CA)
Quebec - Flanders Contemporary Music Award
Rocky Mountain Contemporary Music Festival (Colorado State University)
RTÉ Living Music Festival (Dublin, Ireland)
Russian Contemporary Music Festival (University of Iowa)
Santa Fe International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music
Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young (The Rivers School, Weston, MA)
Sligo Festival of Contemporary Music (Sligo, Ireland)
Sonic Fusion Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music
Sound (Banchory, Scotland)
soundON Festival of Modern Music (La Jolla, California)    also    here
soundSCAPE (Pavia, Italy)  -  formerly "Cortona Contemporary Music Festival"
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
Spitalfields Music - Summer Festival '09 - Spitalfields Music - Contemporary Music (London, England)
Summer Institute for Contemporary Music, Metz, France
Symposium of Contemporary Music (Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IN)
Tongyeong International Music Festival
Two Days & Two Nights of New Music (Ukraine)
Ultima - Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Uncool Festival of International Contemporary Music (Poschiavo, Switzerland)
Ung Nordisk Musik (UNM) (Oslo, Norway)
Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival  (Warebrook, VT)
Warsaw Autumn Festival of International Contemporary Music
Week of Contemporary Music/International New Music Week (Bucharest, Romania)
Le Weekend (Stirling's No Limits New Music Festival) (Stirling, England) [see also instirling.com]
Winnepeg New Music Festival (Winnepeg, Canada)
Women Composers Festival of Hartford (Univeristy of Hartford, West Hartford, CT)
Women in Music Festival (Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY)
Worldtronics Festival of Electronic Music (House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany)
Yaddo Centennial Arts Festival
Young Composers Program (Cleveland Institute of Music)

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