The New Symposium
INTERNATIONAL FORUM AND RESIDENCY PROGRAM
[for musicians, researchers, pedagogues, producers, and artists from other disciplines]
[2026]
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The New Symposium is an ongoing weekly program dedicated to music and art practitioners, theorists, and researchers. It creates a platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration, networking, and shared learning, offering a space in which participants engage in critical dialogue, present their work, exchange methods and ideas, and cultivate reflective practice through weekly online sessions. The program also supports the development of new works and projects, enabling participants to test, simulate, evaluate, and further refine their ideas over time.
The program culminates in in-person gatherings, where the working groups meet on location, develop their practice, continue their research activities, engage in discussion, and exchange ideas, further strengthening the online community. The first in-person gathering will take place at Bled Contemporary Music Week [June 22–26, 2026], where participants will engage in the above-mentioned activities as well as attend the festival’s concerts, symposia, and lectures.
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Format: a long-term program held through weekly 90-minute online Zoom sessions and in-person gatherings at Bled Contemporary Music Week.
For: composers, performers, musicologists, researchers, pedagogues, producers, and other practitioners working in music and across artistic disciplines.
APPLICATION:
The New Symposium is a weekly online residency program that builds an international community of music practitioners, theorists, and researchers. Meeting every week on Zoom, participants present their work, share research questions, and engage in peer-led discussions grounded in critical reflection and dialogue. Each session creates a space for exchange in which diverse perspectives meet and participants are encouraged to question, challenge, and expand their approaches. Through this ongoing process, participants are able to shape, reconsider, and deepen their ideas and works over time. Bringing together participants from different disciplines, the program fosters an interdisciplinary learning environment.
At its core, the program values dialogue as a mode of learning. Through weekly collaboration, participants strengthen their sense of belonging within the group and establish international connections that extend beyond the program itself.
The program culminates in in-person gatherings at Bled Contemporary Music Week, with the first edition taking place on June 22–26, 2026, and the second on January 11–15, 2027. These meetings provide an open and collaborative environment in which participants continue developing their work, attend the festival’s concerts, symposia, and lectures, and have the opportunity to present their work through public performances within the festival program.
PARTICIPANTS ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR COMPOSERS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PERFORMERS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR MUSICOLOGISTS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PEDAGOGUES
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PRODUCERS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR RESEARCHERS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR OTHER PRACTITIONERS
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Urban Megušar [Group A]
Brina Kren [Group B]