The highSCORE New Music Center is dedicated to promoting contemporary music by featuring a range of events throughout the year.
It was created with the mission to stimulate, train, aid and promote the excellence of young people in the field of musical composition, and offer them a context within which to further their professional preparation, propose their work to the wider audience and interact with...
For emerging artists in the early part of their vocation seeking opportunities to devote more focused attention to their art without the constraints of academic requirements, the pursuit of an Artist Diploma program offers the chance to follow these goals. These non-degree conferring programs provide focused career building opportunities through their institutions, as well as many other varied benefits,...
highSCORE Festival is today’s leading Italian Contemporary Music Festival offering masterclasses. Set every summer in historical Pavia (Northern Italy), it is an invaluable venue for emerging composers and performers wanting to produce and promote their work, inspire audiences with their music, secure future commissions and job opportunities, and join other musicians to create a vibrant artistic...
The highSCORE New Music portal is an international archive for new music, supporting the work of people who attended the activities of the Center all over the years. The portal is intended for composers, performers, and promoters interested in finding out more about contemporary music.
Its library and video archive, open to the public free of charge, contain a comprehensive collection of music by previous...
The highSCORE Records label is committed to excellence and innovation in contemporary music recordings. It not only presents the international composers of our time, but fosters genuine engagement through new commissions and cleverly-curated collaborations with international performers.
The label aims at delivering exceptional programs of work with the highest possible standards of organizational and...
Annual proceedings of the highSCORE New Music Center are available in PDF copies of the printed books, which consist of a collection of comments made by the participants, interviews with the protagonists, analyses, scores, musicological writings, reflections and the minutes of the conference.
Proceedings can be consulted on the web portal on a free-access basis. To receive a copy of the printed book,...
The highSCORE New Music Center publishes a catalogue of selected contemporary music scores from talented, emerging composers. All the scores are tracked by ISMN Number and free to donwload in PDF format. Chief of the editorial staff is composer Mario Garuti.
Our philosophy is to identify and support outstanding composing ability by nurturing a close working relationship with contemporary composers.
To see...
highSCORE Videos is an initiative of the highSCORE New Music Center to provide access to not only scores and recordings, but also video material concerning the music of talented composers participating in our events.
Video documentation is greatly meaningful to emerging composers, affording them the opportunity to promote their work over the web.
To see all the videos in our database, click...