A Short History of INMC Inc.

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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