Academy of Second Modernism: Strategies of visibility

Global platform of women composers in Vienna
Patronage Nuria Schoenberg Nono

11 am – 1 pm Uhr Public discourse

Welcome address by Milo Rau (Director of the Wiener Festwochen) and Dr. Ulrike Anton (Director Arnold Schönberg Center)

Presentation of the draft declaration, developed by Sandeep Bhagwati, Mary Ellen Kitchens and Jelena Rothermel, in collaboration with George E. Lewis

Roundtable discussions and inputs by Marlene Brüggen, Christina Hazboun, Barbara Lebitsch, Arno Lücker, Petra Paterno, Nonku Phiri, Rosa Reitsamer (moderation), Ulli Mayer (moderation), Golnar Shahyar (moderation)

Free admission

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For each of the 50 female composition students of Arnold Schönberg who were forgotten or unheard, the Wiener Festwochen will welcome contemporary women composers from all over the world to Vienna. As ambassadors of Second Modernism, the invited composers will present their own pieces, form networks together, and develop strategies of visibility. The works will be performed by Klangforum Wien. The aim of Akademie Zweite Moderne [Academy of Second Modernism]  is the commitment of theatres, operas, festivals, concert halls, and ensembles to significantly increase the proportion of works by women composers in their programs.

Project of the Wiener Festwochen in cooperation with the Arnold Schönberg Center