Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) / Contemporary Music Society of Quebec

Founded in 1966 by a group of prominent Montreal musicians and composers, the SMCQ has the mandate to promote contemporary music from both this country and abroad. With its concerts, its Homage Series, its Montreal/New Music International Festival (MNM), its youth-music programme, radio broadcasts, North American and European tours, a competition for composers, and more than twenty full-length recordings, the work of the SMCQ has resulted in a fertile breeding ground for new works of art, commissions, and masterful performances of contemporary music “classics”.