Sonemus Fest

Sonemus Fest
Genre Contemporary classical music
Dates April-May
Location(s) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Years active 2001 – present
Website www.sonemus.com

Sonemus Fest is an international multi-day contemporary classical music festival which annually takes place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. [1] It was established in 2001 by The Society Of New Music Sarajevo (SONEMUS) in cooperation with the Sarajevo Music Academy and the Pro Helvetia Foundation. Its focus is on the promotion of classical composers from the countries of Southeast Europe who belong to the modernist aesthetic orientation. The festival has hosted numerous international composers such as Beat Furrer [2], Pierre Boulez [3], György Ligeti [4], Tristan Murail [5], Michael Jarrell [6], Toshio Hosokawa [7], Brian Ferneyhough [8] and others.

Format

The festival is held in April or May of each year and lasts for three days. It is made up of three main programmes that are realised through evening-long concerts held sequentially across the three days. [9] Furthermore, the festival organizes numerous workshops, lectures, panel discussions and exhibitions held in the Ars Aevi museum of contemporary art. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "SONEMUS fest 9. i 10. maja u Sarajevu". klix.ba.
  2. ↑ "Festival Sonemus u Sarajevu". vijesti.ba.
  3. ↑ "Festival 'Sonemus Fest 2016' počinje 14. aprila u Domu OSBiH u Sarajevu". udrimuski.ba.
  4. ↑ "György Ligeti Kammerkonzert". schott-music.com.
  5. ↑ "Koncerti i radionice / U petak počinje Sonemus - Festival savremene muzičke umjetnosti". Radio Sarajevo.
  6. ↑ "Deset godina SONEMUS-a". Radio Sarajevo.
  7. ↑ "Festival savremene umjetničke muzike 'Sonemus Fest' od 19. februara u Sarajevu". depo.ba.
  8. ↑ "Sonemus Fest 2018". mas.unsa.ba.
  9. ↑ "About". official website.
  10. ↑ "Koncerti i radionice / U petak počinje Sonemus - Festival savremene muzičke umjetnosti". Radio Sarajevo.
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