Anounncing Selections
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame
featuring Yumi Suehiro (2025)

Vox Novus is proud to announce the selected composers for the 2025 edition of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring pianist Yumi Suehiro, to be presented in November 2025 at the Ellington Room in New York City.

Born in Osaka, Japan, Yumi Suehiro began piano studies at age six and marimba at seven. She is the youngest winner of the Kobe International Competition, and has since built an extraordinary international career. A graduate of Lehman College (CUNY) and the Manhattan School of Music, Suehiro has appeared at major festivals such as June in Buffalo, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, and Sound of Stockholm, and is a core member of Ensemble Mise-en. Her most recent album, Hans Thomalla: Complete Works for Solo Piano, is available on Sideband Records.

For this special set, fifteen composers have each created a one-minute work written especially for Yumi Suehiro, exploring the full expressive range of the piano—from fragile introspection to bold, kinetic brilliance.

SELECTED COMPOSERS AND WORKS

• Bracha Bdil (Israel) – Bells
• David Bohn (USA) – Decorated Oscillation
• Richard Campanelli (USA) – Hummingbirds
• Brendan Colbert (Australia) – ...this moment...
• Michael Coleman (USA) – Room 206
• Tyler Faulkner (USA) – Psalm 19
• Naoki Kondo (Japan) – mono (no. 1, 2025)
• Robert Lemay (Canada) – Mémoire et oubli
• Joop van Liere (Netherlands) – When Silence Cracks
• Ariel González Losada (Argentina) – Die Entzauberung der Welt
• Matthew Osterholzer (USA) – Hence the Music
• Paolo Porto (Italy) – Sommersa
• Nick Redfern (UK) – Gallery of Solitude III (fragment)
• Volker Ignaz Schmidt (Germany) – …a daydream…
• Juan María Solare (Argentina/Germany) – Resonances of a Cherry Blossom

More can be found on the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame webpage

Call for Works - 2026 Electronic Music Midwest Festival

Call for Submissions

Submit here: https://www.newmusicengine.org/categories/2026-Electronic-Music-Midwest-Festival/index.html

Each concert will feature an 8.1.4 immersive speaker diffusion system, with a lower/main ring of 8 channels (with front and rear centers) and 4 height channels. Acclaimed soprano, Mary Hubbell will be the featured performer and composers are encouraged to submit works for her consideration.

EMM is only able to consider works less than 20 minutes in length. Please note that works longer than 12 minutes are rarely programmed.

EMM welcomes and programs all types of EA music, but we are especially interested in programming works that fall within one of the following categories:
1) Composition for our guest performer, Mary Hubbell (soprano), with fixed media and/or live electronics
2) Works for fixed media and/or live electronics up to 8.1.4
3) Instrument(s)/Voice(s) and fixed media or live electronics (composer must provide performers and electronics)
4) Works that include video
5) Sound Installations and Interactive Media (composer provides all non-standard equipment)
6) Live Laptop works

Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025

Guest Performer

Vocal range: A3-C6
Singer preferred range: C4-Bb6
Octave of best resonance, flexibility of tone, and expressiveness: G4-G5
Submission Guidelines:

1) Creators may submit one work for consideration.
2) For consideration, applicants must register and complete an online submission form available at newmusicengine.org. Complete submission information and guidelines are also available on the EMM website.
3) For adjudication purposes, multi-channel works must be submitted as a stereo mix and uploaded at New Music Engine. These audio files are only for adjudication. Selected participants will bring performance files of accepted works to the festival.
4) For video submissions, please provide a link to a streaming service such as Vimeo.com or Youtube.com. Note: The video field is for video submissions only. Using this field for external links to audio files will disqualify your submission.

Registration Information

Only one registration fee is collected for works by more than one composer or collaborations. Upon arrival at EMM, composers will check-in with the registration desk to pay the registration fee and collect a festival information packet. EMM will provide a receipt at that time for those who need documentation for reimbursement.

Regrettably, EMM is unable to offer travel stipends or honorariums to festival participants at this time; however, we do have a limited number of registration waivers available to composers who are able to demonstrate financial hardship.

EMM is unable to consider works that do not conform to these guidelines.

CAMPGround26 | March 5–7, 2026

Call for Works and Installation Proposals

In collaboration with the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA), CAMPGround26 will feature new monodramas by IFCA composers Mojan Alaiyeh, Negar Soleymanifar, and Parastoo Shafiei.

The festival’s final concert will unveil CAMP’s special house installation project, A Little House Music, which challenges conventional notions of music and expands the boundaries of imagination.

This call is open to all composers, irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, or any other form of identity. Composers from historically underrepresented or marginalized groups are particularly encouraged to submit their work.

CAMP offers free housing during the festival for selected student composers currently enrolled in high school, undergraduate, or graduate programs.

Please read the guidelines below for information on available performers and instruments, as well as additional details regarding installation proposals.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM EDT (UTC-4)

CAMPGround26 CALL GUIDELINES AND SUBMISSION FORMS:
https://www.contemporaryartmusicproject.org/campground26

NON-REFUNDABLE SUBMISSION FEE per submission: $10

RESULTS BY: November 30, 2025 by 11:59 PM EDT (UTC-4)

FESTIVAL DATES: March 5-7, 2026

FESTIVAL LOCATION: Tampa, FL

ORGANIZATION WEBSITE: https://contemporaryartmusicproject.org

CONTACT: For general questions, contact Eunmi Ko (ko@contemporaryartmusicproject.org).

FOR EUNMI – A Portrait in Piano

Renowned pianist Eunmi Ko, hailed as “exceedingly interesting” (New York Concert Review) and “kaleidoscopic” (San Francisco Classical Voice), brings her artistry and adventurous spirit to Texas State University for an evening of new works written especially for her. For Eunmi celebrates Ko’s deep collaborations with living composers whose music reflects her introspective and sensitive pianism.

https://www.eunmiko.com/projects/for-eunmi

The program features evocative works by Hwaen Chu’qi, John Liberatore, David Liptak, Daniel Pesca, Jared Redmond, Tyler Kline, and Robert Voisey, including several commissions and world premieres. This concert offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience the evolving sound world of one of today’s leading champions of contemporary piano music.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 – 6:00 p.m.
Performing Arts Center
405 Moon St, San Marcos, TX 78666
Tickets: $13 Public | $8 Faculty & Staff | TXST Students: 1 ticket paid for by the President’s Office