The International New Music Consortium Inc..
(INMC) was founded by the present three directors in September
1996, as a continuation of an older organization, American
New Music Consortium (ANMC), which was active from 1976 until
the late 1980s.
The previous ANMC Inc. has started projects between music
groups, individuals and music institutions, originally creating
common projects with composers and performers from Queens College
(CUNY), New York University,University of Illinois, Louisiana
State Univ., UCLA, Calif. State University Northridge, Tulane
University, Michigan University, SMU, North Texas State Univ.,
New Repertory Ensemble, and others.

With the legendary clarinetist Jack Kreiselman at the
ANMC Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, 1981
After 1983 ANMC Inc.. started branching out to Europe,
with tours, master classes and residencies at Univ. de Quebec
à Montrèal (Canada), at the Paris Conservatory,
at Sorbonne, Univ. de Paris, Frènnes Conservatoire, St.Germain-En-Laye
(France), at Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, at RAI-Rome, Nuove Forme
Sonore, Arezzo, Perugia, with Giornate Internazionali di Musica
à Todi, the Gubbio Festival, etc.(Italy), West Germany
(WDR Cologne), at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels
(Belgium), at the Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Budapest,
at the Split Summer Festival and on national TV in Zagreb (former
Yugoslavia), with Romanian Philharmonic Orchestras in Timisoara,
Constanta and Oradea, as well as in Greece, Holland, Finland (Finnish
Radio, and Kaiaani Finnish-American Days, and Switzerland (Tibor
Varga Festival in Sion). In its twelve years of running, ANMC
has presented some 250 concerts and recitals, organized several
festivals, and performing more than one thousand compositions
of American and non-American composers.

Dinu Ghezzo conducting the NYU Orchestra and
Choruses
n Stravinsky's Simphony of Psalms, 1983 ?

It also instituted the Annual ANMC Awards for outstanding
performers of contemporary music, among them: Jack Kreiselman,
Esther Lamneck, Corrado Canonici, Marlaena Kessick, Giancarlo
Schiaffini, Stefano Scodanibbio, Ronald Anderson, Jack Wallrath,
Maya Beiser, Steven Schick, Bertram Turetzky, etc.


In performance with Esther Lamneck,
Gubbio Festival, 1990

As a result of the numerous activities in Europe, and European
participation in New York, as well as with ANMC summer residencies
at several Italian and French festivals, it became clear that
the organization needed a conceptual change. INMC Inc. was
created to better meet the needs of the international aspect of
the music consortium.

Marcello Crocco, Italian flutist at Castle Belveglio
Festival, 1996

Saxophonist Emil Sein 1995

The web add about INMC master classes and concerts at Belveglio
Castle, near Asti, Italy.

with students (actually Italian teachers), Belveglio Castle,
1996

Composite picture of us at the Belveglio Castle,
by web artist Pierre de Kerangal

During the past four years INMC was a participant in yearly marathon
programs at New York University, opening up explorations on live
Internet with web sites world-wide, with such projects like: CHECKMATE
FOR JOHN CAGE (1995), IN SEARCH OF EURIDICE (1996), and PROJECT
CASSANDRA (May, 1997)
Exploring multimedia, distance creative communications and interactive
processes became a very important ingredience of the organization.
This year, we are planning several events of this nature, in collaboration
with Simon Frasier Univ. in Vancouver, Univ. of Maryland, York
Univ. in Toronto, Trio Contraste and Arad Philharmonic in Romania,
also with MUSICA 2000 in Ancona (Italy), with Hochschulle der
Kunste in Berlin, as well as in Amsterdam and London.
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