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Europasinfonie launches European Composition Competition

A new kind of orchestra calls for new music. Europasinfonie invites composers across Europe to submit their work for a unique large-scale project: a live, networked symphony orchestra and choir performing in real time across 12 countries.

Twelve Countries. One Orchestra.

For the first time in history, the project Europasinfonie connects 12 locations across Europe into one networked orchestra and choir performing together in real time. Only the string section plays live in Dresden. All other instrumental groups and two choirs remain in their respective countries yet play together as if in the same concert hall.

The technological challenge—ensuring transmission with the lowest possible latency—is addressed by a Network of universities, laboratories, research institutions and network providers.

Such a unique symphony orchestra and choir call for musical works that engage with the specifics of signal latency and help shape this first-ever pan-European symphonic performance: "Europasinfonie."

Three composers will each receive a commission to compose a complete work, which will be premiered on June 18, 2027, in a real-time, multi-location concert performance distributed throughout 12 European countries, with a live audience in Dresden, Germany, and broadcast worldwide via live stream.

Europasinfonie is co-funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe Programme.

Commissions

Three composers will be selected and commissioned to develop their submitted excerpts into full works. Each commission includes:

  • €14.000 fee
  • World premiere in June 2027
  • Performance within the Europasinfonie project
  • International broadcast and livestream

Who can apply

The competition is open to composers aged 18 and above who are legal residents of one of the Creative Europe eligible countries listed below. There are no restrictions on nationality or citizenship.

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway

Categories & Submission Window

The competition is open for submissions in two categories:

  • a) Orchestral Work: scored for large symphony orchestra
  • b) Orchestral Work with Choir: scored for large symphony orchestra and choir

Composers may submit one excerpt per category and may enter one or both categories.The jury will commission two orchestral works and one orchestral work with choir.

The call opens on 2 May 2 2026 (08:00 CEST) and ends on 31 July 2026 (23:00 CEST).

More info & Application

Download the full open call and technical guidelines (PDF).
Submit your application via www.europasinfonie.eu.

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Europasinfonie

Twelve countries. One orchestra.

For the first time, 12 locations across Europe connect into one virtual orchestra, performing together in real time. Europasinfonie brings musicians together across borders — not through recordings, but in one shared, live moment. In June 2027, Brussels becomes one of the key nodes in this network, with musicians playing across distances of up to 2,200 kilometers. With Europasinfonie, the Brussels Philharmonic, together with partners including Dresdner Sinfoniker, Hochschule Anhalt (Köthen), and others across Europe, is part of a project that is both technologically groundbreaking and artistically visionary, demonstrating how digital innovation can revolutionize classical music.

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