Welcome to ICMC HAMBURG 2026! Showcasing pieces by Alexander Schubert, Nicole Brady, Anthony Paul De Ritis, Aigerim Seilova and Steffen Lohrey, and Clarence Barlow, the opening concert takes places at the Recital Hall of the iconic Elbphilharmonie.

Fixed media pieces by: Liuyang Tan and Tan Liuyang; Yiting Shao; Cristiano Riccardi; Yerim Han; Weijia Yang; Wanjun Yang; Jinwoong Kim; Talia Amar, Talia Amar and Talia Amar; Jingfan Guo; Shih-Lin Hung and Ju An Hsieh; Yunpeng Li  

Fixed media pieces by: Ayako Sato; Chufan Zhang, Jun Wang and Qi Liu; Akiko Hatakeyama; Boyi Bai; Ed Osborn; Adrian Kleinlosen; Yu Linke

Pieces by: Sever Tipei; Michael Edwards; Rodrigo Cadiz and Thierry Miroglio; Sunhuimei Xia; Zoe Yi-Cheng Lin; Qing Ye and Yuxue Zhou

Nenad Nikolić was born in Serbia and has always been fascinated by his father and grandfather’s accordion playing. But mechanical sounds are from the past. Nenad plays without backing tracks, performing every single tone live—from “tango to techno.” Don’t miss this chance to see him push the boundaries of his instrument with his electronic accordion. 

Artists: Richard Dudas; Vincenzo Russo; Rikako Kabashima; Mara Helmuth, Esther Lamneck and Alfonso Belfiore; Kotoka Suzuki and Michael Murphy; Yu Chung Tseng; Keisuke Yagisawa

Composers: Riccardo Ancona; Brian Lindgren; Riccardo Mazza; John C.S. Keston; Nicola Leonard Hein and Viola Yip; Kasey Pocius; Danilo Randazzo

Fixed media pieces by: Sam Wells; Zihan Wang and Wenxin Zhou; Robert Sazdov ; Sebastiano Naturali; Yunze Mu; Clemens von Reusner; Youngjae Cho; Primrose Ohling; Iván Ferrer-Orozco; Andrea Laudante, Paolo Montella and Giuseppe Pisano; Teerath Majumder; Yu Qin; Wei Yang; Gabriel Araújo; James Harley; Raul Masu and Francesco Ardan Dal Ri

Fixed media pieces by: Hyewon Kim; Rodney Waschka; Chun-Han Huang; Vadim D. Genin; Adam Stanovic; Takumi Harada; Ziyu Pang; Ray Tsai; Giancarlo Alfonso

Music by: Huixin Xue; Benjamin Broening; Wan Heo; Jonathan Wilson; Christopher Dobrian; Mark Whitlam; Claudia Robles Angel; Dave O Mahony

Composers: Riccardo Dapelo; Ching Lam Chung; Yongbing Dai and Yiping Bai; Nicolas Kummert; Cecilia Suhr; Jean-Francois and Charles Ramin Roshandel; Franz Danksagmüller

Composers: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano; Jules Rawlinson; Atsushi Tadokoro; Nicola Casetta; Julian Green; Doron Klant Sadja; Aaron Einbond

Fixed media pieces by: Mikel Kuehn; Joan Tan; Taito Fushimi; Andreas Weixler; Wonseok Choi; Hector Bravo Benard; Tom Bañados Russell; Felipe Tovar-Henao; Kim Hedås; Sean Peuquet; Juan Carlos Vasquez; Wen-Chia Lien; Tomás Koljatic S.; David Nguyen; Hanae Azuma; Jong Gyun Kim

Fixed media pieces by: Jeonghun Hyun; Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris; Ray Tsai; Juan J.G. Escudero; Emilio Casaburi; Yi-Hsien Chen; Pingting Xiao; Xiaoyu Su; Pak Hei Leung

Composers: Juan Vassallo; Yoonjae Choi; Heloise Garry; Masatsune Yoshio; Mikako Mizuno; Richard Scott; Salvatore Siriano

“Disturbance” is an audiovisual solo performance that blends elements of concert, video art, and theater. With his double bass and analog synthesizers, Florentin Ginot invites the audience on a live nocturnal journey. Past and present collide with ghostly glitches and pulsating electronic rhythms. 

Composers: Fernando Egido; Juan Arturo Parra Cancino; Jonathan Wilson; Enrique Tomás and Moisés Horta Valenzuela; Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler; Oscar Corpo; Rob Canning; Denis Polec Vocal 

Fixed media pieces by: Zoe Yi-Cheng Lin; Yuming Sun; Shunhang Huang; Takeyoshi Mori; Chi Wang; John Thompson; Woon Seung Yeo and Ji Won Yoon; Xingle Zhang; Ji Won Yoon and Woon Seung Yeo; Bike Öner; Tom Williams; Genoël von Lilienstern

Fixed media pieces by: Felipe Otondo; Yu-Cheng Huang; Leo Cicala; Chen Mu Hsi; Ye Peng; He Jing; Ray Fields; Antonio Scarcia; Lia Su; Seongah Shin; Guanjun Qin

What does contemporary music sound like? What happens during the rehearsals? And what challenges might occur? We’ll look into these questions during rehearsal and concert visit for families. 

Music by: Roberto Cipollina and Eleonora Podestà; Henrik von Coler; Yao Hsiao; Rodrigo Pascale; Natsuki Kambe; Zhixin Xu and Yunze Mu; Cecilia Suhr; Francesco Perissi

Radioballett is an interactive performance that draws you into another world through wireless headphones, where you and other participants can actively shape the space together. 

The piece “Fragment” explores the boundaries between private and public life through human experiences in both real and virtual worlds. It invites everyone to reflect on the balance between digital and “offline” existence and to engage with the interplay between social interaction and online networks. 

Composers: Joshua Rodenberg and Fumiaki Odajima; Lidia Zielinska; Zihan Wang; Howard Kenty; Naotoshi Osaka; Yixuan Zhao; Javier Alejandro Garavaglia; Danni Zhao and Congren Dai

Composers: Gintas Kraptavicius; Calvin McCormack; Jonathan Impett; Moritz Wesp, Eric Haupt and Victor Gelling; Paulo C. Chagas; Cat Hope and Juan Parra Cancino; Andrew Loveless

The Soundbar is a performative pop-up bar that brings together socializing, drinks, and jam sessions. It serves as a workshop and experimental space, offering an environment for exploring sound, finding inspiration, and connecting with others. What does your favorite drink sound like? Join us for Soundbar’s vibrant sound journeys. Let your glasses sing and discover new levels of sensory experience at the bar. 

Author Bärbel (Bascha) Wegner, photographer Steven Haberland, and musician Clarks Planet bring together text, images, and sound in a multi-layered exploration of the city of Harburg. Storytelling meets improvised music, photographs interact with sound and field recordings. 

The familiar takes on new shapes, improvisation unfolds—opening up fresh perspectives on the neighborhood, not least from the vantage point of the Production Lab on the 10th floor. 

Composers: Jeff Kaiser; Minho Kang; Eric Lyon; Ilia Viazov and Nicola Leonard Hein; Nicola Leonard Hein; Dong Zhou; Olivier Jambois

Fixed media pieces by: Giovanni Crovetto; Matteo Tomasetti, Francesco Casanova, Andrea Veneri, Vili Pääkkö and Andrea Strata; Ziwei Yang; Tolga Yayalar; Leonidas Spiliopoulos

Nicola Giannini; Neal Farwell; Mathieu Lacroix; Rikhardur H. Fridriksson; Daniel Mayer; Allison Ogden; Jan Jacob Hofmann; Vilbjørg Broch; Daniel Gomes; Aleksandar Zecevic and; Kiran Bhumber; Martin Heinze; Cristian Gabriele Argento

Fixed media pieces by: Faming Qin; Varun Kishore; Chun-Han Huang; Nattakon Lertwattanaruk; Silvia Matheus; Paul Oehlers; Tekstil Nayaka Adinata and Muhammad Welderahmat; Keming Zeng; Yufen Qiu; 璟 李

Composers: Yisong Piao; Miller Puckette and Kerry Hagan; Marc Ainger; Tiffany Skidmore and Patti Cudd; Patti Cudd; Konstantinos Karathanasis; Zouning Liao

Music by: Nicolas Brochec; Jian Feng; Yi-Tzu Huang; Sarah Proske; S. Ali Hosseini; Pierre Alexandre Tremblay; Ouyang Mingshan

Composers: Eric Honour; Drew Farrar; Yue Zhang; Dennis Scheiba; Anqi Liu and Han Zhang