Portugal Announces Works Chosen for the 2025 ISCM WNMD: Robert McIntyre selected to represent Australia with ‘A Sea Spray of Ash’ (duo category) alongside Dan Walker (youth choir category)
Miso Music Portugal, the Portuguese Section of the ISCM and the host of the 2025 ISCM World New Music Days Festival titled “Thirst For Change”, has announced the works that have been selected for performance on the festival, which will take place in Lisbon and Porto from 30 May to 7 June 2025, from the official submissions from ISCM member organizations as well as from independent submissions. Below is a list of all the chosen repertoire arranged alphabetically by the composers’ surnames with details about each of the works and how they were submitted.
Omri Abram: Time passes Time (Large Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Israeli Section; Nguyen Hong Anh: Quiet Moment (Solos) submitted by the Vietnam Contemporary Music Centre; Krists Auznieks: Turning the Wheel (Small Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Latvian Section; Alexis Bacon (USA): In the Foreign Land (Solos) Individual Submission; Natasha Barrett: Impossible Moments from Venice 3 / The Other Side of the Lagoon (Electroacoustic) submitted by the ISCM Norwegian Section; Dániel Péter Biró (Hungary, Canada, U.S.A., Norway): Kilkul ‘Breakdown’ (Solos) Individual Submission; Manuella Blackburn (UK): Home Truths (Electroacoustic) Individual Submission; Sonia Bo (Italy): Variazioni di Luci (Orchestra) Individual Submission; Silvia Borzelli: A Self-portrait(with Anatsui in the background) (Solos) submitted by the ISCM Netherlands Section; Chris Cree Brown: Evanesce (String Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM New Zealand Section; Carmen Cârneci: HESPER(Í)A (Solos) submitted by ARFA; Marta Cerqueira & Simão Costa (Portugal): #6 Propagação (Small-size Audio/Video) Individual Submission; Youngjae Cho (South Korea): mirrored: ceilings, floors, walls (Electroacoustic) Individual Submission; George Christofi (Cyprus): Reflect (Solos) Individual Submission; Erik Dæhlin: Flickering Sites (Small-size Audio/Video) submitted by the ISCM Norwegian Section; Cecilia Damström (Finland): Ice (Orchestra) Individual Submission; Cláudio de Pina (Portugal): Neurotransmits (Electroacoustic) Individual Submission; Yuri Demetz (Italy): All Encompassing Snapshots (Orchestra) Individual Submission; Emily Doolittle: Gannetry (Solos) submitted by the Scottish Music Centre; Jan Dušek: Unsent Letter (Solos) submitted by the Prague Spring Festival; Anna Katrin Egilstrød: VITI (Small-size Audio/Video) submitted by the ISCM Faroe Islands Section; Fátima Fonte: Cartas Portuguesas (Duos) submitted by the ISCM Portuguese Section; Gonçalo Gato: Elementos (Trios) submitted by ISCM Portuguese Section; Gilles Gobeil (Canada): Un cercle hors de l’arbre (Electroacoustic) Individual Submission; Guo Yuan: Chilly River and Snow (Medium Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Chengdu Section; Leontios Hadjileontiadis: Platonic Solids (Medium Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Greek Section; Hanna Hartman: The Navigators (Electroacoustic) submitted by the ISCM Gotland Section; Sam Hayden: Die Abkehr (Turning Away) (Large Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM British Section; Jianing He: Fluttering with the wind (Traditional Portuguese Instruments) submitted by the ISCM Shanghai Section; Eloain Lovis Hübner: Infinite (Medium Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM German Section; Komei Itoh: OBJECTs253 (Solos) submitted by the ISCM Japanese Section; Mirela Ivičević: Innate Heaven (Music for Religious Institutions, Chapter I) (Youth Choir) submitted by the ISCM Croatian Section; Barbara Jazwinski: Soliloquy (Solos) submitted by the ISCM USA Section; Jinwook Jung: unerasing (Orchestra) submitted by the ISCM Wallonia Brussels Section; Ji-Hyang Kim: (South Korea) Nachtmusik für Streicher (String Ensemble) Individual Submission; Shin Kim: KALEIDOSCOPE (Large Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM South Korean Section; Jana Kmiťová: Sie fuhr in die nacht (Large Ensemble) submitted by Music Centre Slovakia; Panayiotis Kokoras: Useless Box (Electroacoustic) submitted by Stephen F. Austin State University (Texas); Tatjana Kozlova Johannes: Ainult õhk ‘Just Air’ (Small Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Estonian Section; Bence Kutrik: Chorale Machine (Solos) submitted by the ISCM Hungarian Section; Tilen Lebar: Hassan (Solos) submitted by the ISCM Slovenian Section; Murielle Lemay: Augur (Orchestra) submitted by the ISCM Flemish Section; Hong-yu Leung: Variations (String Quartet) submitted by the ISCM Hong Kong Section; Ashley John Long: Beyond the Haze of Winter’s Edge (Trios) submitted by the ISCM Welsh Section; María Eugenia Luc: Forest (Medium Ensemble) submitted by Musikagileak; Jug Marković: [new work] (Large Ensemble) commissioned winner of ISCM Young Composer Award (2019); Rytis Mažulis: Timeless (String Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Lithuanian Section; Robert McIntyre: A Sea Spray of Ash (Duos) submitted by ISCM Australian Section; Alexandru Murariu: Knots III (Solos) submitted by the ISCM Romanian Section; Jonathan Nangle: Artificial Blissful State (Solos) submitted by the ISCM Irish Section; Veljko Nenadić: Gorgons – Three Mythical Creatures (Orchestra) submitted by the ISCM Serbian Section; Lenka Novosedlíková: VPD (Trios) submitted by the ISCM Slovak Section; Jim O’Leary (Canada): Susan Pennefather Gray (Duos) Individual Submission; Daniel Osorio: … y no me toques (String Quartet) submitted by the ISCM Chile Section; José Luis Perdigón de Paz: Torque (Trios) submitted by the ISCM Spanish Section; Ville Aslak Raasakka: The Harvest (Large Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Finnish Section; Leevi Räsänen: the two childhoods (String Quartet) submitted by the ISCM Finnish Section; Liu Rui: The other shore flower (String Quartet) submitted by the ISCM Nanning Section; Alfredo Santa Ana: The River of Hellos and Goodbyes (Youth Choir) submitted by Music on Main; Bekah Simms (Canada/Scotland): spore wind ii: swamp thing (Electroacoustic) Individual Submission; Chris Sivak: Alouette Meets Her Maker (Youth Choir) submitted by the ISCM Canadian Section; Helena Skljarov: The Portrait of Dora P. (Orchestra) submitted by the ISCM Croatian Section; Tomasz Skweres: Suite Macabre (Solos) submitted by the ISCM Austrian Section; Hawar Tawfiq: M.C. Escher’s Imagination (Orchestra) submitted by the ISCM Netherlands Section; Todor Todoroff (Belgium): Voices Part IV Hallucinations (Electroacoustic) Individual Submission; Haukur Tómasson: Air Sculptured (String Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Icelandic Section; Barry Truax (Canada): What the Waters Told Me (Electroacoustic) Individual Submission; Roxanne Turcotte: Masques et dichotomies (Electroacoustic) submitted by the ISCM Canadian Section; Annette Vande Gorne (Belgium): VOX ALIA IV: Vox Populi (Electroacoustic) Individual Submission; Mauro Godoy Villalobos: MOODS for string ensemble (String Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Swedish Section; Dan Walker: Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? (Youth Choir) submitted by the ISCM Australian Section; Tsu-Yao Yang: Bleu II (String Quartet) submitted by the ISCM Taipei Section; Agata Zemla: To bee or not to bee (Small Ensemble) submitted by the ISCM Polish Section; Aske Zidore: Livets Midte‘Center of Life’ (Small-size Audio/Video) submitted by the ISCM Danish Section.
