🟢 OSTRAVA DAYS 2025 INSTITUTE (AUGUST 11–30)

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The 21-day biennial Ostrava Days Institute and Festival is one of the largest summer new music programs. The Institute consists of lectures, seminars, discussions and meetings. Participants take part in preparing their works, which are performed on Ostrava Days Festival’s program. Ostrava Days Festival includes established and emerging composers, an international community of musicians, two resident orchestras (the 85-piece ONO – Ostrava New Orchestra, and the 35-piece Ostravská banda), and a mixed choir (Canticum Ostrava).

Additionally, Ostrava Days includes ensembles, a resident string quartet, and many soloists. The Ostrava Days Institute is interconnected with the Ostrava Days Festival. The Festival’s program includes compositions by student-residents, lectors, a number of well-established composers, and a selection of masterpieces from the recent past, side by Composers » target= »_blank » title= »participants.
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Composers, performers, and musicologists are English.

Applications must include:
– max. 3️⃣ scores / drafts / open call proposals* and audio samples (composers)
– max. 3️⃣ recordings (performers)
– motivation letter (musicologists, writers, music theorists)

*preferred are compositions for our resident orchestras and choir or pieces according to our Open Call

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🟢 OPEN CALL #OD2025
Apart from selections from an applicant’s portfolio, there are also possibilities to propose new projects:

1) Site-specific projects for the opening night at outdoor or indoor areas of the Lower Vítkovice area
2) Electronic pieces for Minimarathon of Electronic Music
3) Pieces for guest ensembles: Mivos Quartet (SQ), Quasar (4 Sax)
4) Pieces for a concert type of cimbalom (or pieces including this instrument)

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🟢 APPLICATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 15, 2025.
Please note that the whole process is entirely 📧 » target= »_blank » title= »cutt.ly/OD25_Institute
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📧 skalova@www.newmusicostrava.cz

General support for OCNM provided by City of Ostrava, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Moravian-Silesian Region, Veronika and Libor Winkler, Czech-German Fund for the Future, and others (including sponsors and individual donors).