Ars Electronica 2021
The Forum Wallis competition for electronic music is being held for the 7th time this year. In 2020, 11 female composers were chosen at Ars Electronica.
For the 7th time, the Festival for New Music Forum Valais is organizing a competition for acousmatic music. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2021. The works will be selected by an international jury consisting of Kotoka Suzuki (Tokyo/UTSC Toronto), Reuben de Lautour (UC Christchurch, NZ), Jaime Oliver (Lima/Waverly Labs NYU) and Javier Hagen (Director Forum Wallis) and performed by Simone Conforti (IRCAM Paris/Biennale Venezia) as part of the Forum Wallis New Music Festival at Leuk Castle.
11 female composers chosen in 2020
291 works from all continents were submitted to the 6th edition of the competition in 2020, almost three times as many as in 2019. The outstanding quality and thus also the numerical presence of female composers in the selected works was remarkable: While female composers collectively account for just under 20% of the submissions, they are represented by 12 of the total of 22 selected works with over 50%, three of which are active in Switzerland. The works of (in alphabetical order): Alyssa Aska, David Berezan, Mariam Gviniashvili, Konstantinos Karathanasis, Sangwon Lee, James O'Callaghan, Louise Rossiter. There was a Special Mention for (in alphabetical order): Léa Boudreau, Jonathan Corzo, Ingrid Drese, Evelyn Frosini, Regina Irman, Sachie Kobayashi, Panayiotis Kokoras, João Pedro Oliveira, Aki Pasoulas, William Price, Leonie Roessler, Nikos Stavropoulos, Alexis Marie Weaver (with 2 works), Karin Wetzel.
The Forum Valais is an international festival for new music that was founded in 2006 and is organized annually by the Valais section of the International Society for New Music IGNM-VS. Due to the coronavirus, the 15th edition of the festival will not take place over Whitsun this year, but in the summer at Leuk Castle. The exact festival program will be announced later.
The competition documents for the Ars Electronica Forum Valais 2021 can be downloaded from the following links:
http://www.forumwallis.ch/programm-2021arselectronicaforumwallis-call.htm
http://www.forumwallis.ch/fw21-callforacousmaticworks.pdf
http://forumwallis.ch
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