Work by Karin Wetzel at the World Music Days
Karin Wetzel will represent Switzerland at the ISCM World Music Days 2021 in Shanghai/Nanning, China, with the work "Glass Body". However, this event has been postponed to March 2022 due to coronavirus.
The submissions from the Swiss Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM Switzerland) included works by Sachie Kobayashi, Tobias Krebs, Fernando Garnero, David Philip Hefti, Fritz Hauser and Karin Wetzel. This makes Wetzel the fifth Swiss composer to present a composition at the ISCM World Music Days after Helena Winkelman (2015), Iris Szeghy (2016), Junghae Lee (2019) and Esther Flückiger (2020).
The full list of selected repertoire (from both official submissions from ISCM member organizations and independent submissions) can be found on the ISCM website:
https://iscm.org/news/works-chosen-for-the-2021-iscm-wnmd
ISCM World Music Days 2021 postponed
The organizers of the ISCM World New Music Days 2021 in Shanghai and Nanning, China, announce that due to the ongoing threat of the pandemic around the world, the festival cannot take place in September 2021 as originally planned. The organizers hope to hold the festival at the end of March 2022. As things stand today, there would therefore be two rescheduled ISCM festivals in 2022: the 2021 festival in Shanghai and Nanning and the 2020 festival in Auckland and Christchurch in New Zealand.
The ISCM World New Music Days is the annual festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music, ISCM, which has been held since 1923 and has celebrated many music-historically significant (premiere) performances in the last 100 years of its existence: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationale_Gesellschaft_für_Neue_Musik
The festival has been held six times in Switzerland: in 1926, 1929, 1957, 1970, 1991 and most recently in 2004.
