Leuk under the sign of new music

The 11th International Festival for New Music Forum Wallis will take place this year from June 1 to 5 on the long Whitsun weekend at Leuk Castle: With Recherche (Freiburg i.Br.), Taller Sonoro Sevilla, dissonArt Thessaloniki, UMS 'n JIP, Le Pot, the Ensemble für Neue Musik Zürich and the Austrian composer Wolfgang Mitterer, international references are coming together in the medieval town and working together under the title Integration new contextualizations of the new music ensemble. Pascal Viglino presents his latest music theater TilT, the local Tetraflutes premieres by Helena Winkelman, Xavier Dayer and Andreas Zurbriggen, and the Collectif Environnement Sonore CES sound walks to raise awareness of our acoustic environment. With the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2017 Selection, a panopticon of international electronic music can also be heard at two concerts. A total of two dozen concerts with over 50 works by composers from over 25 countries are scheduled, and this year the festival will be flanked by an exhibition of contemporary art.
 

International partnerships, IGNM Day
The international program is made possible primarily thanks to the extensive network of the IGNM-VS: the International Society for Contemporary Music ISCM, the European Conference for Promoters of New Music ECPNM, its own festival network ZENET, embassies and international cultural foundations. As usual, the so-called "IGNM Day" will take place on Whit Monday: It provides a platform for the Swiss sections, as well as ISCM, ECPNM and ZENET representatives and local delegates, to meet and exchange ideas informally.
The Forum Valais is one of the largest festivals for new music in Switzerland and takes place annually at Whitsun at Leuk Castle in Valais. It is run by the IGNM-VS, the local section of the International Society for Contemporary Music ISCM, and has co-produced over 300 world premieres since 2006. In 2015, it performed Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet together with the Arditti Quartet, André Richard and Air Glaciers over the Alps for the first time.