Leonhard Baumgartner
(c) Andrej Grilc
Austrian violinist Leonhard Baumgartner won the Eurovision Young Musicians 2024 competition on Saturday evening in the northern Norwegian town of Bodø. He played an abbreviated version of Henri Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5. Second place went to the Swede Hugo Svedberg, followed by Fabian Egger from Germany. Read More →
Leonhard Baumgartner
(c) Karol Sokolowski
Austrian violinist Leonhard Baumgartner (*2007), ICMA Discovery Award winner in 2023, just won the Ilona Fehér competition in Budapest. Read More →
Jodie Devos
Terrible news: Belgian soprano Jodie Devos died, surrounded by family and friends, on June 16, 2024 in Paris at the age of 35, following a bout of breast cancer that forced her to cancel several recent engagements. In 2015, she was Young Artist of the Year of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). Read More →
Tonhalle Düsseldorf
(c) Suzanne Diesner
Artistic Director Michael Becker, Commercial Director Burkhard Scheuer, Dramaturge Uwe Sommer-Sorgente and Music Educator Lorna Bowden presented the Tonhalle Düsseldorf’s program for the 2024/25 concert season. Read More →
Bruno Monsaingeon & Remy Franck
Due to unforeseen circumstances, film director Bruno Monsaingeon was not able to attend the ICMA Award Ceremony in Valencia on 12 April. Now, ICMA President Remy Franck presented the trophy to the winner at his home in Montrouge. Read More →
Deutsche Welle is presenting the ICMA Gala Concert which took place at the Palau de la Musica in Valencia on 12 April in its YouTube Channel. Click here to get the link.
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Benjamin Woodroffe & Remy Franck during the interview
Classeek, an organization dedicated to discovering, nurturing, and supporting classical musicians worldwide, announces the launch of Insights by Classeek, a premium video library offering interviews with key figures in the classical music industry. The first series features 8 episodes on Media and PR, and is available for €95 only at insights.classeek.com. Read More →
Tonhalle Düsseldorf
(c) Suzanne Diesner
Just a few days after the successful ICMA Gala in Valencia, ICMA President Remy Franck was at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf for a meeting with the Intendant Michael Becker and staff members from Tonhalle Düsseldorf to begin the preparations for the Award Ceremony and the Gala Concert that will take place on 19 March 2025 in Düsseldorf, a city with a long music tradition, where Mendelssohn and Schumann were music directors. Read More →
Julian Kainrath
(c) Remy Franck
The Westdeutsche Sinfonie in Leverkusen and the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) successfully launched their project with young ICMA prizewinners. The project kicked off with Julian Kainrath, Discovery Award winner of 2022, who performed Max Bruch’s First Violin Concerto together with the Westdeutsche Sinfonia under its musical director Dirk Joeres. Read More →
