NOVA Contemporary Music Meeting 2025
O Nova Contemporary Music Meeting (NCMM) é uma conferência internacional bienal de três dias, centrada numa variedade de questões relacionadas com a música desde o início do século XX. O tema deste ano é “Today’s Music Memory”.
O NCMM 2025 contará com Matthias Rebstock (Hildesheim, Alemanha) e Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet (Strasbourg, França) como keynote speakers. O evento compreenderá ainda um concerto por Taíssa Poliakova (piano) e Cláudio Silva (trompete).
Pode consultar o programa dos três dias – 7, 8 e 9 de Maio – aqui.
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Nova Contemporary Music Meeting 2025
7–9 May 2025 | Campus Berna, NOVA FCSH, Lisbon
Theme: Today’s Music Memory
The Nova Contemporary Music Meeting (NCMM) is a biennial international conference hosted by NOVA FCSH, dedicated to multidisciplinary and collaborative research in the field of contemporary music. Gathering composers, performers, musicologists, and scholars from diverse backgrounds, the event promotes dialogue between theoretical and practice-based approaches, exploring how musical creation intersects with broader artistic and scientific contexts.
The 2025 edition is centred on the theme “Today’s Music Memory”, focusing on the role of memory in contemporary music creation, performance, reception, and study. As music becomes increasingly shaped by digital technologies, global circulation, and changing listening habits, the question of how we remember, archive, and transmit music—past and present—has become critical. This theme encompasses a wide array of issues, from the preservation of works and performance practices to the impact of streaming platforms, cognitive research on musical memory, and the pedagogical challenges of transmitting contemporary repertoires.
NCMM 2025 provides a platform for in-depth discussion on how memory operates within today’s musical landscape, shaping cultural identities and aesthetic values while raising new questions around access, tradition, and innovation.
Conference Concert
As part of the program, NCMM 2025 will feature a concert of contemporary music performed by Taissa Marchese (piano) and Cláudio Silva (trumpet), presenting a repertoire that resonates with the conference’s core theme:
Luciano Berio — Sequenza X (1984)
Isabel Pires — Ombres (2006)
Vuk Kulenović — Hilandarska zvona (1992)
John Zorn — Merlin (2015)
Maka Virsaladze — Prayer (2016)
This program offers a compelling journey through diverse musical idioms and approaches to memory, gesture, and sonic identity, highlighting both historical depth and stylistic innovation in contemporary composition.
Full program and registration information available at: https://fabricadesites.fcsh.unl.pt/ncmm/ncmm-2025-program/
