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15 October 2025 until 19 October 2025
 
Cracow
Poland

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16th International choir and orchestra festival in Cracow (Poland)

 
15 October 2025 until 19 October 2025
 
Cracow
Cracow
Italy

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18th International choir and orchestra festival on Lake Garda (Italy)

18th International choir and orchestra festival on Lake Garda (Italy)
15.10. - 19.10.2025
LAKE GARDA (Italian: Lago di Garda) - the most mediterranean lake of all Italian Alpine lakes.
To the alert eye the lake offers a spectacle of natural brightness and colours which makes this place a unique holiday destination for all seasons. Visitors are impressed by places like Riva del Garda or Limone sul Garda with historic buildings and ancient traces of old Roman settlements as well as by imposing palaces and patrician villas that create a fascinating surrounding area for the Lago di Garda Music Festival.

This magnificent backdrop provides the opportunity for amateur choirs and orchestras to experience an unforgettable musical event.

 
30 October 2025 until 2 November 2025
 
남구
48534
South Korea

Details:
손재영
Web site
busan choral festival&competiton

 
30 October 2025 until 2 November 2025
 
남구
48534
South Korea

Details:
전혜진
Web site
Busan Choral Festival & Competition

The Busan Choral Festival & Competition (BCFC) invites choirs and composers from around the world to showcase their talent on a global stage!

🎼 International Choral Composition Competition – A prestigious opportunity for composers to have their works performed by outstanding choirs.
🎤 World-Class Choral Competition – Experience the harmony of voices as choirs from diverse cultures compete and connect through music.

📅 October 30 – November 2, 2025 | Busan, South Korea
Don't miss this chance to be part of one of Asia’s leading choral festivals!

Composition Competition Regulations

(Currency: KRW)

General Regulations
Throughout its festival and competition history, Busan Choral has fostered cultural exchange and promoted high quality of choral music by attracting notable artists, conductors, and composers to one of Asia’s top choral festivals. The Busan Choral Composition Competition seeks to engage with aspiring young composers and to encourage the creation and performance of new works written for the choral music genre. The 1st winning work will be premiered at the 2025 Busan Choral Festival & Competition during the week of October 30- November 2nd, 2025.

Eligibility
1) Composer must be born between MAY 31, 2005 and MAY 31, 1985.
(exceptions may be considered under the BCFC committee's review.)
2) Compositions must not have been previously published or awarded in previous composition competitions and never publicly performed.

Length and Format
1) 3-10 minutes in duration
2) Piece must be for unaccompanied, equal or mixed voices choir.
3) Smaller, portable percussion instruments are allowed. (Xylophone, vibraphone and timpani not allowed).
4) Text can be chosen from Latin, English or Korean. If another language is chosen, a detailed English synopsis and pronunciation must be included in the score.

Application (May 31, 2025 Deadline / Korea Standard Time)
1) Complete Online Application Form (http://www.busanchoral.org/bcfc/competition/c_apply.asp)
2) Résumé/CV (*.doc / *.docx)
3) Copy of passport or ID Card with date of birth in JPEG format
4) Score in PDF format
5) English synopsis and pronunciation
6) Midi recording (by computer software) in MP3 format
7) 3 original copies of the score mailed to the Busan Choral office by May 31, 2025 (postmark deadline). Submitted original copies of scores will be used only for judging so there MUST be No Personal Information Included on the score for a fair evaluation. Scores submitted to the Busan Choral office will not be returned (Address: Busan Choral Festival & Competition / Busan Cultural Center, UN pyeonghwa-ro 76-1, Nam-gu, Busan, South Korea 48534).
8) Only one piece per person acceptable

Application Fee
1) Free

Results
1) Winners will be announced on July 20, 2025 on BCFC Website.
2) Composition will be judged by a panel of international jury. The jury's decisions are final and cannot be appealed.

Awards
1) First Prize: ₩3,000,000
*Only the top prize winning work will be premiered at the 2025 BCFC in the week of October 30-November 2, 2025.
2) Second Prize: ₩2,000,000
3) Third Prize: ₩1,000,000

Publication and Rights
1) Busan Choral Festival & Competition and the Korea Choral Institute will hold publication rights of the score. Busan Choral Festival & Competition will hold performance and recording rights for up to two years following the results of the competition. This will be negotiated between Busan Choral and the composer.
2) Copyright will be retained by the composer .
3) The winning work cannot be submitted for future composition competitions.

Deadline
1) Online Application: By May 31, 2025
2) Result Announcement: On July 20, 2025
 
18 October 2025 until 19 October 2025
 
Northampton
United Kingdom

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Malcolm Arnold Festival - Hear all 20 of Malcolm Arnold’s Concertos featuring solo instruments

 
10 October 2025 until 1 November 2025
 
8.pm
American Contemporary Ballet at Bank of America Plaza
333 S. Hope St., Suite C-150
Los Angeles
90071
United States of America

Details:
Alex Lusaka
Web site
E-mail
+1213 304 3408

$65-$140
Death and the Maiden with Burlesque: Variation IX

DEATH COMES FOR US ALL. THIS OCTOBER.
ACB presents Death and the Maiden with Burlesque: Variation IX

The annual October start of American Contemporary Ballet’s performance season has become an unmissable way for the culturally inclined to celebrate Halloween. The company opens its 14th season with two mysterious new ballets.

When Franz Schubert realized his death from syphilis was imminent he created one of the most moving meditations on death — and greatest pieces of music — ever written. Haunting, otherworldly, and seductive, it’s as powerful today as when it was created.

ACB Director Lincoln Jones sets his ballet Death and the Maiden to a live performance of the composer’s memento mori, complete with opera singers and an eerie staging in which characters appear to levitate and disappear into darkness. The title of the piece is a motif from Renaissance art symbolizing the idea that no matter how young and beautiful you are, death can come at any time. It’s perhaps a fitting (if not somewhat chilling) reminder for a town that can be fixated on those attributes.

“I love Halloween, but I never felt it went far enough,” says Jones. Once you’ve outgrown jump scares, there doesn't seem to be a way to revel in the mysteries and beauty of darkness.”

Death and the Maiden is presented with Burlesque: Variation IX, a premiere that takes audiences further down the rabbit hole opened by last October’s Burlesque.


Death and the Maiden is danced to live performances of Franz Schubert's Der Tod und Das Madchen, and vocal performances of several of his lieder:
Du bist die Ruh, D.776
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118
String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor (Der Tod und das Mädchen), D.810
-Andante con moto
-Scherzo.Allegro molto - Trio Presto
-Allegro
-Der Tod und das Mädchen, D.531


Burlesque: Variation IX is danced to live performances of several George Frederic Handle pieces, performed on harpsichord:
-Suite for Piano No. 7 in G Minor HWV 432: VI. Passacaille
-Sarabande Suite No. 4 in D Minor HMV 437
-“Lascia ch’io pianga” HWV 7
 
3 October 2025
 
7.00pm
The Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza
400 W 43rd St
New York
10036
United States of America

Details:
Gene Pritsker
Web site
E-mail
6465229442

Free Event
Composers Concordance Presents - Evan Francis and Steve Sandberg Duo

Evan Francis, flute, clarinet, and saxophones

Steve Sandberg, piano​

Frank Wagner, bass

Composers Concordance

On Friday, Oct. 3 at 7pm, Composers Concordance continues its 42nd season with a concert at Manhattan Plaza’s Ellington Room featuring multi-woodwind virtuoso Evan Francis, pianist/composer Steve Sandberg, and bassist Frank Wagner. They’ll perform new works by Dan Cooper, Francis, Eugene W. McBride, Gene Pritsker, Sandberg, and Wagner. The concert will also be live-streamed on Composers Concordance’s Facebook page.
 
12 October 2025
 
3.pm
Huntingdon Hall
Chapel Walk Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 2ES
United Kingdom

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Winter series - 2025/2026

Brompton String Quartet

Jack Greed violin
Mee-Hyun Esther Park violin
Edward Keenan viola
Wallis Power cello

Barbara Strozzi - L'amante Modesto for string quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet no 2 in G major op. 18
Josef Haydn - String Quiartet no 3 in C major op. 76
Dimitri Shostakovich - String Quartet no 1 in C major op. 49

 
3.pm
Huntingdon Hall
Chapel Walk Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 2ES
United Kingdom

Details:
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Winter series - 2025/2026

Brompton String Quartet

Jack Greed violin
Mee-Hyun Esther Park violin
Edward Keenan viola
Wallis Power cello

Barbara Strozzi - L'amante Modesto for string quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet no 2 in G major op. 18
Josef Haydn - String Quiartet no 3 in C major op. 76
Dimitri Shostakovich - String Quartet no 1 in C major op. 49

 


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