The Australian Music Centre has announced that three Australian composers have been selected for the 2026 ISCM World New Music Days Festival.

Composer Jessie Leov is the official Australian selection, while Australian-born composers Paul Clift and Michael Hannan will also see works featured on the program.

Jessie Leov. Photo supplied

Leov’s 2021 work convergency will be performed at the Festival, which this year takes place in Bucharest.

Leov is an emerging composer based between Australia and New Zealand. She is currently a participant in Omega Ensemble’s 2026 CoLAB: Composer Accelerator Program and has also been selected to compose a work for the 2026 ANAM Set. In 2025, she was awarded an Export Development Fund by Music Australia and was selected for the Flinders Quartet’s Emerge program.

“I’m so excited that convergency will receive its European premiere at this event which will be a beautiful collision of culture, people and place,” wrote Leov.

Melbourne-born, Switzerland-based composer Paul Clift has been selected as the Swiss representative and will see the Romanian premiere of his work On the celestial hierarchy at the festival, while Geelong-based composer Michael Hannan sees his solo piano work Reaching to the Stars also performed.

More about ISCM World New Music Days Festival can be found here.