FEM pin 2025 for the International Ensemble Modern Academy

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The In­ter­na­tio­na­le En­sem­ble Mo­dern Aka­de­mie e.V. (IEMA) will re­cei­ve the FEM pin 2025 of the Fach­grup­pe E-Mu­sik (FEM+) in the Ger­man Com­po­ser­s' As­so­cia­ti­on. The award will be pre­sen­ted on Fri­day, Oc­to­ber 17, 2025, at 3 pm in the Spie­gel­saal of the Mu­se­um Art.Plus in Do­nau­eschin­gen - as part of the Do­nau­eschin­ger Mu­sik­ta­ge. The lau­dato­ry speech will be gi­ven by Lena Krau­se, Ma­na­ging Di­rec­tor of FREO - Freie En­sem­bles und Or­ches­ter in Deutsch­land e.V.

With this award, FEM+ re­co­gni­zes IE­MA's spe­cial com­mit­ment to the pro­mo­ti­on and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on of con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic and its sustainab­le edu­ca­tio­nal work. For over 20 ye­ars, the IEMA, as the trai­ning cen­ter of the En­sem­ble Mo­dern, has com­bi­ned ar­tis­tic prac­tice, edu­ca­ti­on and me­dia­ti­on in a pro­gram that ap­peals to young mu­si­ci­ans world­wi­de.

At the heart of the Aca­de­my is the Mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram In­ter­na­tio­nal En­sem­ble Mo­dern Aca­de­my - Con­tem­pora­ry Mu­sic Per­for­mance(MA IEMA CoMP), which IEMA of­fers tog­e­ther with the HfMDK Frank­furt.

The one-year cour­se is ai­med at in­stru­men­ta­lists, con­duc­tors, com­po­sers and sound di­rec­tors and tea­ches con­tem­pora­ry play­ing tech­ni­ques, in­ter­pre­ta­ti­on prac­tice and re­per­toire know­ledge. The stu­dents form a fi­xed for­ma­ti­on as an IEMA en­sem­ble for one year, work clo­se­ly with mem­bers of the En­sem­ble Mo­dern and re­gu­lar­ly meet re­now­ned com­po­sers and con­duc­tors.

»We are particularly pleased to receive this award from the German Composers' Association: IEMA has been contributing to the diversity and vibrancy of today's ensemble landscape - from which composers in particular also benefit - for over 20 years. As part of its academy, Ensemble Modern has always been committed to passing on its enthusiasm for contemporary music to the next generation of professionals and at the same time attracting a wider audience and schoolchildren to new music in a direct and accessible way. None of this would be possible without a strong network of funding institutions such as the Kunststiftung NRW, the GVL, the Crespo Foundation and the KfW Stiftung, as well as cooperation partners such as the HfMDK Frankfurt, the Ulysses Platform and the Landesmusikakademie Niedersachsen.«Christiane Engelbrecht, Managing Director of IEMA

Pre­vious re­ci­pi­ents of the FEM pin of ho­nor are: Ger­hart Baum (2015), Frank Kämp­fer and Theo Geiß­ler (2016), the con­cert se­ries Un­er­hör­te Mu­sik (2017), Young­hi Pagh-Paan (2018), Ca­rin Le­vi­ne (2019), Lot­te Tha­ler (2020), Lo­thar Za­g­ro­sek (2021), Jeu­nesses Mu­si­ca­les for the na­tio­nal com­pe­ti­ti­on Ju­gend kom­po­niert (2022), the Ar­chiv Frau und Mu­sik (2023) and As­trid Schme­ling (2024).

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