ICMA publish the finalists for the awards 2025

  • 02/12/2024

In three rounds, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the releases competing in the finals for the awards 2025. The initial list with a total of 374 nominations has been reduced to three releases per category, the finalists for 2025. The winner is chosen from this list of three finalists. The names of the winners who will receive their trophy at the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf on 19 March 2025, will be published on 14 January 2025. To see the finalists list, click here: FINALISTS ICMA 2025

Musikakademie Liechtenstein: Beat Fehlmann becomes new Artistic Director and Managing Director

  • 19/11/2024
Musikakademie Liechtenstein: Beat Fehlmann becomes new Artistic Director and Managing Director

Beat Fehlmann
(c) Francesco Futterer

After 15 years of successful management, Drazen Domjanic, initiator, Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Music Academy in Liechtenstein, has decided to retire from the operational business as of September 1, 2025. However, Domjanic will remain with the Music Academy as an advisor to his successor and will also take on a new role as a member of the Foundation Board. Read More →

ICMA Jury nominates 374 releases for the 2025 Awards

  • 14/11/2024

The International Classical Music Awards ICMA today announced the nominations for their Awards 2025, celebrating the best musicians and recordings. The nominations include many renowned soloists, ensembles, conductors and orchestras as well as a lot of young musicians, many of them being first-nominees. Read More →

The Music Academy in Liechtenstein has a new home

  • 11/11/2024

In Nendeln/Liechtenstein, the new home of the Music Academy in Liechtenstein was inaugurated this weekend. In the Hagenhaus on Feldkircherstrasse in Nendeln, built in 1837, the former K&K post office has been converted into a modern academy with a concert hall, recording studio, student and teacher rooms, as well as offices and social rooms by CN Architects – the same team that planned the now-stalled construction of the Munich Konzerthaus. Read More →

Liechtenstein bank launches new award for young musicians

  • 29/10/2024

VP Bank and the Music Academy in Liechtenstein have launched a new award: the VP Bank Opus Award, which will be presented for the first time on November 14, 2024. This innovative award is aimed at young musicians who have already achieved great success at an early stage. The press release states: « The VP Bank Opus Award sets a new milestone in the promotion of musical talent, taking into account not only artistic ability but also the diverse challenges of the modern music world. » Read More →

ICMA winner Can Çakmur inaugurated the renovated Liszt grand piano in Weimar

  • 23/10/2024
ICMA winner Can Çakmur inaugurated the renovated Liszt grand piano in Weimar

Can Çakmur at the renovated Liszt Grand in Weimar
(c): Henry Sowinski

The Bechstein grand piano by Franz Liszt, which is located in the Liszt House in Weimar, is playable again. The Klassik Stiftung Weimar, together with the C. Bechstein company and the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar, celebrated the renovation of the grand piano from 1881 with a festive matinée in the Liszt House yesterday. Read More →

Finnish Conductor Leif Segerstam dies at 80

  • 09/10/2024
Finnish Conductor Leif Segerstam dies at 80

Leif Segerstam (c) Ingo Höhn

Finnish conductor and composer Leif Segerstam has died aged 80, Finnish media reported today. After studies in violin, piano, composition and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki 1952-63 he continued with post-graduate studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. His initial career as a conductor started with positions in the opera houses of Helsinki, Stockholm, and West Berlin, and guest appearances included the Met, La Scala, Covent Garden, Teatro Colon and the opera houses of Cologne, Hamburg and Munich, Geneva and the Salzburg Festival. Read More →