33 concerts with 3 appointments per day, 81 composers - of which more than half are in their thirties, born in the '70s and '80s - and 40 new works, including 30 world premieres. This is the 57th International Festival of Contemporary Music, in figures. The festival will be held in Venice from 4 to 13 October, organized by la Biennale, chaired by Paolo Baratta, with a programme brought forth by Director Ivan Fedele, in his second term.

Another voice, another space is the title of the 57th edition of the Festival which opens onto the whole contemporary scene, weaving space and voice - two key elements of the musical thinking from the second half of the 1900s until our days - in countless variations. The internal life of sound, its articulation in space, the voice vivisectioned like an acoustic instrument, the electronics that constitute the essential instrument of this research are the elements that will be combined in the Festival's concerts. Luciano Berio – to whom homage will be paid, at ten years from his passing - and Karlheinz Stockhausen will open the way for the new generations well-represented in the programme – Eric Masters, Daniele Ghisi, Vittorio Montalti, Evis Sammoutis, Kristian Ireland, Chris Swithinbank, Raffaele Grimaldi, Franco Venturini, Ryo Dainobu. These musicians will be accompanied in many of the concerts by prominent computer studios, from the Ircam to Tempo Reale (founded by Berio himself), fruit of the evolution of the first studies of phonology, source of all experiments and even today a meeting point for many composers. Research conducted in these centres has helped to open new ways and to widen dramatically the musical material available today, among the instruments and techniques, genres, and acoustic and artificial sound sources. As a counterpoint to the new generations of composers, the Festival will host new performers, because the influence exerted by these musicians has now taken on decisive weight. Already in the decades between the 60's and 80's, instruments were brought into the limelight which before sat at the edge of the orchestra – the double bass, the basset horn, the bassoon – or exotic instruments such as the bayan; new techniques were experimented, old ones were revolutionized: and all these developments influenced the composers themselves. The soloist is like a modern researcher who contributes to musical thinking, said Berio, and his Sequences, the VI and VIII of which are on the programme, are emblematic of this idea. The 57th Festival will be the stage of new international talent, with the 34-year-old cornetist and clarinetist Michele Marelli, the thirty-one-year-old violinist Marco Fusi, the double bass player Daniele Roccato, alongside the insuperable Francesco D'Orazio on the violin and Christophe Desjardins for the viola. Similarly, in addition to the prominent ensembles Accroche Note, Court Circuit, the Kairos Quartet and the Arbós trio, the focus is now shifting on recent formations: L'imaginaire, L’instant donné, the Maurice Quartet and the mdi ensemble. With this edition, moreover, the Festival is becoming a reference point for a dense network of co-producing and collaborative partnerships that will lead to some appointments outside Venice: from Radio France, with which la Biennale has initiated an exchange of commissions for young composers, to the Teatro Comunale in Bologna with the Orchestra and Choir, to the Teatro del Maggio Musicale, the Teatro Studio of Scandicci, the Orchestra della Toscana and Tempo Reale, the Polish Institute in Rome and the Italian Institute of Culture in Madrid, the Ircam and Court-Circuit, in addition to the historical partner of la Biennale - Music, Teatro La Fenice with its Orchestra, and the established collaborations with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and the Conservatory of Venice. Biennale College is the new initiative that involves all sectors of the Biennale. To the activities designed to promote awareness among the public (Exhibitions, Festivals), la Biennale of Venice has added a strategic line aimed at training young artists: Biennale College. Born as an evolution of the workshop activities of the Theatre and Dance sectors, Biennale College is characterized by its emphasis on the productive aspect. As to the Music sector, an international call to new creations by young talents has been announced. The call involves short chamber operas to be realized in teams - a composer, a lyricist, a director - accompanied by teachers and under the coordination of the Director Ivan Fedele.