OUTHEAR NEW MUSIC WEEK
SYMPOSIUM
Organizer: THESSALONIKI CONCERT HALL
Fragile Presents, Imaginative Futures
Academic Symposium on Music Composition
Sound is fragile. It dissolves into silence; fades almost at the moment it is born or lingers as a faint trace in memory. The fragility of the present reflects a broader cultural and ecological precarity; and yet within this instability, music opens pathways to the imagination, to what is not yet possible, to the potential of the future.
The symposium Fragile Presents, Imaginative Futures focuses on timbre as ontology — on sound as pure material and as a trace of existence — while engaging with themes of withdrawal, disappearance and memory. At the same time, it explores strategies of sonic imagery and imagination, open-ended musical forms and post-digital experimentation.
The three-day academic symposium on music composition, Fragile Presents, Imaginative Futures, is organized within the framework of the 5th international composition event, outHEAR New Music Week (13–21 April 2026).
The keynote speaker of the symposium is the composer Mark Andre, Professor of Composition at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden. The symposium will also feature members of the scientific committee, as well as emerging composers from around the world selected as part of the 5th edition of outHEAR New Music Week.
ARTISTS
Scientific and Organising Committee
Dimitri Papageorgiou Professor of Music Composition, composer – Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Annesley Black Professor of Music Composition, composer – University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
Orestis Toufektsis Senior Lecturer, composer – University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
* On
19th April and
21st April, works by emerging composers created specifically for the 5th outHEAR New Music Week will be presented at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.