ISCM World Music Days

ISCM World Music Days
ISCM World Music Days
Genre	Contemporary music
Location(s)	worldwide
Years active	1922–present
Organized by	International Society for Contemporary Music
Website	http://www.iscm.org

The ISCM World Music Days is an annual contemporary music festival organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music, originally created in 1923 as the ISCM Festival as a means to support the most advanced composition tendencies.^[1]^[2] Each edition is held in a different location, and the programmes are organized by a jury after evaluating the submissions of each ISCM national section.

Editions

György, Lukas and Vera Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow and Michael Daugherty (l.t.r.) at the 1982 ISCM World Music Days in Graz, Austria

Year	Venue
1923	Salzburg
1924	Prague and Salzburg
1925	Prague and Venice
1926	Zürich
1927	Frankfurt
1928	Siena
1929	Geneva
1930	Liège and Brussels
1931	Oxford and London
1932	Vienna
1933	Amsterdam
1935	Florence
1936	Barcelona
1937	Paris
1938	London
1939	Warsaw and Kraków
1941	New York City (abbreviated festival)
1942	Berkeley, California (abbreviated festival)
1946	London
1947	Amsterdam
1948	Palermo and Taormina
1950	Brussels
1951	Frankfurt
1952	Salzburg
1953	Oslo
1954	Haifa
1955	Baden-Baden
1956	Stockholm
1957	Zürich
1958	Strasbourg
1959	Rome

Year	Venue
1960	Cologne
1961	Vienna
1962	London
1963	Amsterdam
1964	Copenhague
1965	Madrid
1966	Stockholm
1967	Prague
1968	Warsaw
1969	Hamburg
1970	Basel
1971	London
1972	Graz
1973	Reykjavík
1974	Rotterdam
1975	Paris
1976	Boston
1977	Bonn
1978	Stockholm and Helsinki
1979	Athens
1980	Tel Aviv
1981	Brussels
1982	Graz
1983	Aarhus
1984	Toronto and Montreal
1985	Netherlands
1986	Budapest
1987	Cologne, Bonn and Frankfurt
1988	Hong Kong

Year	Venue
1989	Amsterdam
1990	Zürich
1991	Oslo
1992	Warsaw
1993	Mexico City
1994	Stockholm
1995	Ruhr
1996	Copenhagen
1997	Seoul
1998	Manchester
1999	Romania and Moldova
2000	Luxembourg
2001	Yokohama
2002	Hong Kong
2003	Ljubljana
2004	Switzerland
2005	Zagreb
2006	Stuttgart
2007	Hong Kong
2008	Vilnius
2009	Visby, Växjö and Göteborg
2010	Sydney
2011	Zagreb
2012	Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Leuven and Mons
2013	Košice, Bratislava and Vienna
2014	Wrocław
2015	Slovenia
2016	Tongyeong
2017	Vancouver
2018	Beijing
2019	Tallinn
2020	Auckland and Christchurch (rescheduled to 2022 to the COVID-19 pandemic)
2021	Shanghai and Nanning (cancelled due to COVID-19 travel restrictions)
2022	Auckland and Christchurch
2023	South Africa
2024	Faroe Islands