Featured Composers

GÓRECKI / HILLBORG / ADAMS

This season is inspired in part by the radical discoveries of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) whose 555th anniversary is coming soon, and the great success of the recent Artemis 2 mission to the moon. Over the years various composers have reflected on the context of human existence and none more so than contemporary composers. In listening to these works we realize that our thirst for understanding of how we fit into this vast, dark space of the Cosmos, remains insatiable, prompting us to examine our identity and reflect on our sense of belonging. These musings are aptly and often masterfully reflected in the music of our time.

The COPERNICAN SERIES consists of three concerts
& a set of tree recordings on the theme of Cosmos.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COMING SEASON

  • Monuments of Music shapes the 2026/27
    International Concert Series — featuring seminal works by Górecki, Hillborg, John Adams, and others.

  • Launch of the Paul Sacher Research Institute — How scholarship and performance work in tandem.

  • Dr. Christina Guillaumier named Sacher Institute’s Director.

  • Stravinsky Summit ‘27 to take place in March of 2027 in New York City: Stravinsky Festival and the International Conference break a new ground.

  • ICCM welcomes distinguished scholars, orchestras and ensembles to Stravinsky Summit ‘27.

  • Upcoming recordings
    — Best of Lutoslawski series, Vol. 2 (continued)
    — Mavericks & Iconoclasts series (continued)
    — Copernican Series (The Birth of Cosmos)
    — Schnittke & The Russian Tradition
    — Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis recording in London;
        the legacy of an avant-garde composer

Abakan Morphing

THE FIREBIRD

International Concert Series

Abakan Morphing Series / New York

Wednesday, November 18, 7:30 p.m.

Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium

Eldbjørg Hemsing, violin

Zvonimir Hačko, conductor

 

Martinů: Sinfonietta “La Jolla”
Hillborg: Violin Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete, 1910 version)

STRAVINSKY SUMMIT '27
New York City

The Summit Series
An integrated space for Festivals & Scholarly Conferences.

Following the success of the Beethoven Summit ’26 in London, ICCM has established a series of annual musical summits that unite scholarly enquiry with performance at the highest artistic level. Each event brings together leading international scholars and distinguished performers to deepen and advance our understanding of composers’ musical language, stylistic development, and dramatic expression, while also exploring the continued relevance of these ideas within contemporary artistic practice.

Join us in New York in March of 2027 for our next summit – dedicated to Igor Stravinsky and his contemporaries we will (re)discover a generation of iconoclasts and mavericks that redefined the path of music history.

Concerts
Live performance lies at the heart of ICCM’s mission and remains central to all aspects of its activity. Accordingly, one of the Centre’s principal aims is to curate distinctive performances of contemporary repertoire that are seldom encountered within conventional institutional programming. With performances scheduled in London, New York, Los Angeles, Warsaw, and other major cultural centres, ICCM continues to expand its international presence and artistic reach.

PAUL SACHER REASEARCH INSTITUTE ®
(PSRI)

Affiliated with ICCM, our research institute is founded on the
principle that research and performance are not separate
pursuits, but part of a unified and evolving musical practice.
Scholarship and performance are most meaningful
when they inform and challenge one another, and we seek
to bring these activities together through an integrated
approach to musical study and artistic creation. Research
grounded in sources, cultural context, and musical practice
lies at the core of the work at PSRI.

We are committed to engaging rigorously and thoughtfully
with the materials, ideas, and historical circumstances
that shape musical works, while also examining the wider
intellectual and cultural environments in which they are
created and received.

At the PSRI, research exists not as an abstract exercise, but as something realized through rehearsal and performance. Scholarship intersects directly with interpretation and live musical practice, allowing performance itself to become both the expression and testing ground of research.

COMMISSIONS
2026/2027

WOJCIECH BŁAŻEJCZYK
composer
Poland
HANNA KULENTY
composer
Poland
AVNER DORMAN
composer
Israel/USA

ON THE COMMISSIONS FRONT
We are proud to announce new commissions by an exceptionally gifted group of composers listed above. This year they will see their works premiered at Lincoln Center in New York, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, Cadogan Hall in London, and Carnegie Hall in New York City.

UPCOMING Recordings

BEST OF LUTOSŁAWSKI Vol. 1
Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series
Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra
Lutosławski: Symphony No. 4
Lutosławski: Mi-parti

SCHNITTKE & STRAVINSKY
Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Schnittke: Requiem

ALFRED SCHNITTKE / CHORAL WORKS
Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series
Schnittke: Poems of Repentance
          (new Urtext edition)
Schnittke: Choral Concerto

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