[OPEN CALL] ARS ADRIA [ARTIST RESIDENCY]

Bled Contemporary Music Week

[OPEN CALL] 

ARS ADRIA [ARTIST RESIDENCY] [2026/2027]

Ars Adria artist residency programmes welcome a wide range of practitioners, theorists, and researchers of various musical disciplines. 

Combining online development, exchange with peers and mentors, a preparation period, and public presentation at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week, the programmes offer an opportunity to develop artistic and research practices, realise new projects, and engage with an international community of practitioners.

RESIDENCY PROGRAMMES:
- precept.concept.percept for composers, performers, and ensembles

- infra.norma.meta for conductors

- enuntiatio.praefatio.formulae for artistic researchers

- praelocutio.exordium.prolusio for experimentalists, sound artists, makers, and technologists

- [conspicuum.infra .x] for percussionists and percussion ensembles

- [theoriae.doxa] for musicologists, writers, scholars, philosophers, and artistic researchers

- organum moda for improvisers and improvising ensembles

- [colloquia] for string quartets and individual string players

- [axiomata media] for vocalists and choirs

- [confictura.norma .x] for saxophonists and saxophone quartets

- [clausula.meta .x] for music-theatre makers, composers, performers, directors, dramaturgs, designers, and interdisciplinary ensembles

- [simulator] for symphonic orchestra performers

- [lexicon] for jazz artists

- [IDEA] for Renaissance and Baroque music performers

- [codex] for musical instrument inventors, designers, and developer

APPLY by October 15, 2026 

More information: https://abeceda.io/Artist-Residency-2026/2027/