With the unstoppable passing of time everything changes, and it does so with increasing speed. Darmstadt too has stayed in motion over the last 60 years. But one thing is still true: Darmstadt is the foremost center of New Music, a place of exchange and experimentation, where the struggle to create a composition is as important as ist performance. We support the International Music Institute Darmstadt and the Summer Course for New Music so that an open dialogue about New Music among young composers and artists, musicians and theorists will continue to be possible in concerts, lectures and symposiums.

We would like to convince you to join our circle as a Friend and member!

How you participate is up to you: as a person with an interest in music who would like to be active as a supporter of contemporary music, as a composer, instrumentalist, listener or thinker who wants to take part in discussions, wether sitting together or communicating across continents. Simply as a friend.

Our expectations are high: on our path to reality we need you!

Lucas Fels

Chairman