The Call: New Music - New Horizons
New music means new horizons – beyond national identities, deeply rooted in different cultural environments and historic (un-)consciousness. Klangforum Wien, one of the leading ensembles for new music, and the Fondazione Agrigento 2025 as planner Agrigento, Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2025, were calling for scores which give sound and architecture a new understanding of identity.
The open call addressed any composer living or born in a country touching the Mediterranean Sea – regardless of their nationality.
The criteria
Each composer could submit one score for a piece with a duration of 7 – 20 minutes. The piece could be either a premiere or a work that had already been performed.
The maximum instrumentation included: 2 fl (doubling picc), 1 ob (doubling cor anglais), 2 cl (doubling bass-cl), 1 bsn, 1 sax (soprano, alto, tenor), 1 hrn, 1 trp, 1 trb, 2 perc, 1 acc, 1 hp, 1 pno, 3 vn, 2 va, 2 vc, 1 db.
In addition to the score, a CV including contact details, as well as a detailed description of the piece and its relation to the main themes of the call were required.
The selection
The jury received about 210 entries, from which they ultimately selected works by the following seven composers:
Maria Vittoria Agresti (1996, Caserta), Giovanni Damiani (1966, Palermo), Michele Foresi (1988, Macerata), Mirela Ivičević (1980, Split), Claudio Panariello (1989, Naples), Emircan Pehlivan (1999, Samsun) and Mikel Urquiza (1988, Bilbao).
Klangforum Wien will perform their compositions at Teatro Pirandello in Agrigento on 26 April 2025 as part of this year's Agrigento, Italian Capital of Culture 2025.
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