Present

With the program «Present», the Mizmorim Festival places an important emphasis on contemporary music. The Festival alternate each year between  a Composer-in-Residence program and the Mizmorim Composition Competition. Additionally, the Festival also regularly commissions compositions for different ensembles and presents Swiss premieres.

Composition Competition

CALL FOR COMMISSION

The Mizmorim Kammermusik Festival announced in a unique collaboration with the Lucerne Festival, an international Call for Commissions as part of the 10th Mizmorim Festival.
We are pleased to announce that the Basque composer Helga Arias was selected and will composer a work aligned with the Festival theme Tehillim
The premiere of this work will take place on the opening concert of the Festival (Thursday, January 25th 2024) with the  Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) and the Basler Madrigalisten under the baton of Baldur Brönnimann stattfinden.

COMPSITION COMMISSION

 For the anniversary edition of the Festival we have decided to commission another work for chamber ensemble to the young Swiss composer Lukas Stamm.
In collaboration with the I&I Foundation, Stamm will compose a work for violin and ensemble, which will be premiered on Saturday, January 27th 2024 under the baton of Baldur Brönnimann and the Mizmorim Festival Ensemble.
2024 
Lukas Stamm
Glades 
for Violin and Ensemble (2023)
2024 
Helga Arias
Mimma’amaqim
for Voices and Ensemble (2023)
2023 
Victor Alexandru Colțea
Rough surfaces 
for string quartet (2022)
2021 
Eleni Ralli
5 Mysterious Scenes 
for solo-violin (2020)
2019 
Aram Hovhannisyan
Klavierstück III « ... and beyond ... » 
for piano four hands (2018)


Composers in Residence

The Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival invites one composer-in-residence to Basel every two years. The works of the composer play a prominent role in the Festival programme.
2022 
Jonathan Keren
Four Spanish Homages
für clarinet, guitar and cello (2021)
2020 
Yair Klartag
Voglio e non vorrei
for wind sextet (2019)


2018 
Josef Bardanashvili
Desert Wind
Octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and double bass (2017)

2017 
Matan Porat
Mizmorim
Quintet for clarinet and string quartet (2016)
2015 
Menachem Wiesenberg
Reverberations
for clarinet and piano (2014)