IGNM-VS renews board
The Valais section of the International Society for New Music IGNM-VS has renewed its board. As of 2019, Marie N. Guex, Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, Hans-Peter Pfammatter, Manuel Mengis and Javier Hagen (President) are the new members.
The IGNM-VS organizes the annual Festival for New Music Forum Valais at Leuk Castle, which has regularly made international headlines with Karlheinz Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet with the Arditti Quartet and Cod.Acts Pendulum Choir, among others.
The Forum Wallis has also acquired a new international board of trustees: In addition to Javier Hagen (IGNM-VS), Kotoka Suzuki (Tokyo/Chicago), Jaime Oliver (Lima/New York) and Reuben de Lautour (Istanbul/Auckland) are members of the jury of the 5th Ars Electronica Forum Wallis competition, the acousmatic concerts are curated by Simone Conforti from IRCAM Paris, and the artistic direction of the 1st Forum Wallis Academy for Composition Students is the responsibility of the Swiss-Argentine conductor and director of the Electronic Studio Basel Erik Oña.
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Manuel Mengis, Simone Conforti, Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, Hans-Peter Pfammatter, Reuben de Lautour, Marie N. Guex, Jaime Oliver, Javier Hagen, Kotoka Suzuki, Erik Oña
