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Thanks to everyone who participated in the Living Music Summit! Check out the recordings from the summit on our Living Music Summit playlist!

Summer Salon Series

We will be hosting the first Salon Series of the 2021-2022 season on October 5 at 7pm ET. For details, or to register, click here.

9th Annual Commissioning Competition

The Boston New Music Initiative is very excited to announce the winner of our 9th Annual Commissioning Competition! Our judging panel was extremely impressed with the quality of the works submitted. Ania Vu's piece "Tik-tak" was selected by an outside panel of industry professionals from an anonymous pool of almost 100 very wonderful compositions. Vu will be writing a new work for BNMI to obe premiered in 2022. Polish of Vietnamese descent composer and pianist, Ania Vu (née Vũ Đặng Minh Anh) is pursuing a Ph.D. as a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her music explores the interplay between linguistical sound properties and meanings, musical energy related to form, and varied notions of time. Her current mentors are Marcos Balter, James Primosch, and Anna Weesner. In 2017, she received her BM in composition and theory from the Eastman School of Music. BNMI would also like to recognize Clay McMillan, whose work "Siste Viator" received an honorable mention.

Call for Scores for BNMI's Thirteenth Season

All calls for scores for the Thirteenth Season are now closed. Please check back in November 2021 for information on future calls, and results of our 2021 calls.

7th Annual Young Composers Competition

The Boston New Music Initiative's 7th Annual Young Composers Competition is now closed. The winner will be announced in November.

Quarantune Snacks

The Boston New Music Initiative presented another series of Quarantune Snacks in January! The previous presentation of short livestream concerts was part of the virtual Boston New Music Festival. Visit the youtube playlist to see what you missed!