15th Anniversary Concert

The 15th Anniversary Concert was standing-room only! You can check out the livestream of the concert on youtube.

3rd Annual Historically Excluded Composer Competition

This call is now open. The deadline is 31 August 2025.

 

The 2024 Living Music Summit: Sound Image Gesture was a great success! You can check out the livestreams of the concerts on our youtube page.

15th Anniversary Concert

The BNMI 15th Anniversary concert happened on Friday, 30 May 2025, 7pm at Somerville Music Spaces.  Click here for programme information.

13th Annual Commissioning Competition

The Boston New Music Initiative Commissioning Competition is closed.

12th Annual Commissioning Competition

The Boston New Music Initiative is very excited to announce the winner of our 12th Annual Commissioning Competition! Our judging panel was extremely impressed with the quality of the works submitted. Artur Akshelyan's piece "Three Pieces for Orchestra" was selected by an outside panel of industry professionals from an anonymous pool of around 80 very wonderful compositions. Akshelyan will be writing a new work for BNMI's core ensemble to be premiered in May or June 2025.

Artur Akshelyan begun his composition studies in Armenia at the Komitas State Conservatory with V. Adjemian. Since 2008 he moved to Switzerland where he studied with Michael Jarrell and Luis Naon at Haute Ecole de Musique of Geneva. He participated in masterclasses with Ivan Fedele, Kaija Saariaho, Stefano Gervasoni, Philippe Hurel, Sofia Gubaidulina and others. His works have been commissioned from various institutions and ensembles such as the Ensemble Contrechamps (Geneva), Radio France (Paris), “Orpheus Competition”(Switzerland), Dilijan Chamber Music Series (USA), Festival Flagey (Brussels), Foundation Minkoff (Geneva), Ensemble Pre-Art (Zurich) and others. Since 2018 he taught at the Yerevan State Conservatory and American University in Yerevan. As a conductor he collaborated with Ensemble Assonance.

BNMI would also like to recognize one honorable mention: Geli Li

BNMI's 15th Anniversary Celebration Commissioning Prize

Next season we are celebrating 15 years of supporting new music and performing works by living composers! Apply to write a new short work for BNMI! We recently updated the information, and extended the deadline in order to make the call more equitable. This call is closed and winners will be announced very soon!

BNMI's 15th Anniversary Call for Scores

This season we are celebrating 15 years of supporting new music and performing works by living composers! This call for scores is now closed. Winners will be contacted by the end of the year.

Brockton Symphony Orchestra Call for Scores

This call for works for string orchestra is now closed. The winner will be contacted in November.

2nd Annual Historically Excluded Composer Competition

This call is now closed. Winners will be contacted by the end of the year.

1st Annual Historically Excluded Composer Competition

We are very excited to announce the winners for our first ever Historically Excluded Competition!

Historically Excluded Gender

Winner:
Lydia Brindamour for Empty Room (iii)
Honorable Mentions:
Cara Haxo for A Few Figs from Thistles
Carter Crosby for Enacting Travesty

Historically Excluded Race/Ethnicity

Winner:
Kyle Rivera for Invocation of Eternal Voices
Honorable Mentions:
Daixuan Ai for Childhood Memories
Bijan Olia for Streicher, Tasti et Bizarreries
Oswald Huynh for Aubade with Ashen Clouds, Scarlet Sky

Historically Excluded Circumstances

Winner:
Vera Ivanova for Children's Games
Honorable Mentions:
Ryne Siesky for /ˈɪnbluːm/

Call for Scores: Sound, Image, Gesture

We are very excited to announce the winners for the Call for Scores: Sound Image, Gesture.

Winners:
 Michael Blazek for The Fallout
Oliver Caplan for Illuminated by the Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night
Jason Gomez for Dance
Jia Yi Lee for Pull
Motoki Ohkubo for Kitchen Stream
Heather Savage for Hope Rising
Ingrid Stölzel for Leonardo Saw the Spring

Composer Interview Series

The next installment of the Composer Interview Series with Yangfan Xu was released on our youtube channel on May 3! Stay tuned for next season!

JOIN THE BNMI TEAM IN 2024

E-mail jobs@bostonnewmusic.org if you are interested! You can also check our jobs page.