Tonkin: Point-Counterpoint

The International Forum for Young Composers was conceived and established by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. A biennial event, Forum was launched in 1991, organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal as well as the Société Radio-Canada, and sponsored by the International Music Council (UNESCO). Forum’s Montreal roots notwithstanding, we responded enthusiastically to the kind invitation from the Telstra Adelaide Festival to ‘relocate’ the 2000 event to Australia. In 2002, Forum returned to the University of Montreal for its sixth edition. The present recording, the NEM’s fifth Forum CD, is an opportunity once again to reap the fruit of these encounters, and to recognize that wherever Forum takes place, it contributes substantially to the vitality of new music by young composers on an international scale.