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highSCORE New Music Center
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 other composers, performers, artists, musicologists and editors. The center organizes festivals, performances, lectures and...
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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 community. Musicians work closely with a renowned faculty, talented visiting artists and special guests from around the world for two intense...
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Groove and relaxation are the ingredients of the highSCORE Special Week, seven days dedicated to music in the prestigious Villa Penicina in the hills of Pavia’s Oltrepò region. In these magnificent surroundings, top protagonists of the pop/rock scene will provide seminars, private lessons, jam sessions and concerts for emerging artists chosen from around the world for this exclusive event. Hitherto, young musicians have often found it difficult to find places of learning that were in touch with audiences and the market; where important...
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The highSCORE Study Tours allow educators to customize their music workshops in Italy, one of the world’s most fascinating destination for arts and culture. Competitively priced and all-inclusive, our tours give you the flexibility to take your coursework in just one to four weeks. We make it easy and affordable for educators to give their students an international experience. To learn more on how to plan your music workshop in Italy, write to production@highscorenewmusic.com
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Dedicated to the music of living composers, the highSCORE Concert Series serves as a catalyst for musical innovation. Through the presentation of today’s most relevant music, the Series fosters meaningful encounters with performers and composers from all over the world. The highSCORE Concert Series connects you with some of the most interesting and engaging music of our time. Events regularly include pre-concert conversations with performers, composers, critics and scholars.
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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 financial management.
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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. Also, the Center publishes a catalogue of selected contemporary music scores. All the scores are tracked by ISMN Number and free to donwload in PDF format. Chief of the editorial staff is composer Mario Garuti.
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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 attendants. The highSCORE New Music Center engages in an ongoing program of development work to promote new music throughout the globe.
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