The finalists discs for Opus Prize 2010-11 (Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics) are:

• Automacité by Christian Bouchard
• De type inconnu by the duo of the same name (Sylvain Pohu, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay)
• Désordres by Roxanne Turcotte
• Éclats by the group [iks]
• Quelques reflets by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

The 15th gala will take place on January 29, 2012 at Salle Bourgie of the Pavillon Claire et Marc Bourgie of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.

The winning works at the Sound in Space Composition Competition (Boston, MA, USA, 2011) are Anagoge by Andrew Babcock (1st prize), Champs de fouilles by Martin Bédard (2nd prize), and A glass is not a glass by Adam Basanta (3rd prize).

The Musica Nova 2011 International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Prague, Czech Republic) recently announced its laureates: Antonio Scarcia, Chien-Wen Cheng, Martin Klusák, Diana Salazar, Roderik de Man, Monty Adkins, John Young, and Alla Zahaïkevych.

The Sound in Space festival will take place at the Fenway Center of the Northwastern University in Boston (USA) on November 17 - 19, 2011. This festival has a competition component with two concerts with the six finalist works — four of which are by Montréal composers: Adam Basanta, Martin Bédard, Simone D’Ambrosio, and Ana Dall’Ara-Majek. The festival also presents two portrait concerts — Daniel Teruggi, and Ludger Brümmer — and a few conferences and workshops.

Robert Normandeau will premiere his most recent work La part des anges on November 26, 2011 during the Imatronic festival in Karlsruhe (Germany). At the same event, the day before, is programmed a performance of the choreography Effraction de l’oubli by Camille Mutel for which Gilles Gobeil composed the music.

The 24 Tage Neuer Musik in Weimar festival will take place in Weimar (Germany) on November 2 - 5, 2011 and will feature, amongst others, the 65 anniversary of Annette Vande Gorne — portrait concert on November 4 — and the 85 anniversary of Francis Dhomont — portrait concert on November 5.