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

THE 3RD MIZMORIM COMPOSITION COMPETITION

The Mizmorim Composition Competition has been held every two years since 2019. Composers from Switzerland or people who have lived here for at least three years and who are not older than 40 at the time of the call for entries can take part in the competition. In addition to prize money, the winner will be commissioned to write a composition of around ten minutes, which will be premiered at the Mizmorim Festival.
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)