The 2024 Living Music Summit: Sound Image Gesture was a great success! You can check out the livestreams of the concerts on our youtube page. 13th Annual Commissioning Competition
The Boston New Music Initiative Commissioning Competition is now open! Click here for more details and to submit. 12th Annual Commissioning CompetitionThe Boston New Music Initiative is very excited to announce the winner of our 12th Annual Commissioning Competition! Our judging panel was extremely impressed with the quality of the works submitted. Artur Akshelyan's piece "Three Pieces for Orchestra" was selected by an outside panel of industry professionals from an anonymous pool of around 80 very wonderful compositions. Akshelyan will be writing a new work for BNMI's core ensemble to be premiered in May or June 2025. Artur Akshelyan begun his composition studies in Armenia at the Komitas State Conservatory with V. Adjemian. Since 2008 he moved to Switzerland where he studied with Michael Jarrell and Luis Naon at Haute Ecole de Musique of Geneva. He participated in masterclasses with Ivan Fedele, Kaija Saariaho, Stefano Gervasoni, Philippe Hurel, Sofia Gubaidulina and others. His works have been commissioned from various institutions and ensembles such as the Ensemble Contrechamps (Geneva), Radio France (Paris), “Orpheus Competition”(Switzerland), Dilijan Chamber Music Series (USA), Festival Flagey (Brussels), Foundation Minkoff (Geneva), Ensemble Pre-Art (Zurich) and others. Since 2018 he taught at the Yerevan State Conservatory and American University in Yerevan. As a conductor he collaborated with Ensemble Assonance. BNMI would also like to recognize one honorable mention: Geli Li BNMI's 15th Anniversary Celebration Commissioning Prize
Next season we are celebrating 15 years of supporting new music and performing works by living composers! Apply to write a new short work for BNMI! We recently updated the information, and extended the deadline in order to make the call more equitable. This call is closed and winners will be announced very soon! BNMI's 15th Anniversary Call for Scores
This season we are celebrating 15 years of supporting new music and performing works by living composers! This call for scores is now closed. Winners will be contacted by the end of the year. Brockton Symphony Orchestra Call for Scores
This call for works for string orchestra is now closed. The winner will be contacted in November. 2nd Annual Historically Excluded Composer Competition
This call is now closed. Winners will be contacted by the end of the year. 1st Annual Historically Excluded Composer Competition
We are very excited to announce the winners for our first ever Historically Excluded Competition! Historically Excluded Gender Winner: Historically Excluded Race/Ethnicity Winner: Historically Excluded Circumstances Winner: Call for Scores: Sound, Image, GestureWe are very excited to announce the winners for the Call for Scores: Sound Image, Gesture. Winners: Composer Interview SeriesThe next installment of the Composer Interview Series with Yangfan Xu was released on our youtube channel on May 3! Stay tuned for next season! JOIN THE BNMI TEAM IN 2024E-mail jobs@bostonnewmusic.org if you are interested! You can also check our jobs page. | Member Benefits
Composers The Boston New Music Initiative holds numerous Calls for Scores throughout the calendar year. Performers Explore New Music Volunteer
The Boston New Music Initiative is always seeking volunteers to assist our staff for specific projects and/or general support.
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