Historic General Assembly of the ISCM
This year's General Assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) had to be held virtually. The centenary will be celebrated in 2023 with the first ISCM festival in Africa.
According to a statement from the Swiss section of the ISCM, delegates gathered on June 27, 2020 for the first virtual General Assembly in the history of the International Society for Contemporary Music, after this year's World Music Days in New Zealand had to be canceled for the first time since World War II due to the coronavirus crisis.
The ISCM World Music Days are to take place in Shanghai and Nanning in 2021. The Sinfonietta Basel is expected to give its first Asian guest performance there through the Swiss section. In 2022, the 2020 program will be repeated in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand. To celebrate the society's centenary in 2023, the ISCM will be entering new territory, as the festival will take place for the first time on the African continent with Johannesburg/Soweto as venues, under the direction of composer and percussionist Lukas Ligeti and the South African ISCM section.
