Posts by: Remy Franck

The video of the ICMA Gala Concert played by the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and featuring many winning artists from the 2023 panel is highly successful on the YouTube channel of Deutsche Welle. More than 100.000 people saw it in less than a month, and the number is continuously growing. You can…

Francisco Coll (born 1985), winner of the ICMA Composer Award 2019, will be paying tribute to painter Joaquín Sorolla (Valencia 1863 – Cercedilla, Madrid 1923) during the Iturbi Prize, organised by the Valencia Provincial Government or Diputació, with his work Madre [Mother].

Vom Schweizer Komponisten und Dirigenten David Philip Hefti, Preisträger des Composer Award 2023 der International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), wird am 24. Mai in der Oper Graz das Ballett ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ uraufgeführt.

Pianist Menahem Pressler died Saturday in London at the age of 99. Pressler was born into a Jewish family in Magdeburg in late December 1923. The Presslers managed to escape the Nazis to Palestine in 1938. In 1946, he won the Debussy Competition in San Francisco. In the late 1940s, he settled permanently in America…

ICMA Jury member Juan Lucas from the Spanish music magazine Scherzo  has written the libretto for Die Judith von Shimoda, an opera by Fabián Panisello for eight singers, chamber choir, ensemble, electronics and multimedia which will have its premiere on 17 August at the Bregenz Festival, and will then go to Vienna and to Madrid.

The video of the ICMA Gala Concert played by the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and featuring  many winning artists from the 2022 panel is highly successful on the YouTube channel of Deutsche Welle. More than 50.000 people saw it  in less than a week, and the number is continuously growing.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUGuhH_XUo

This year’s ICMA Award Ceremony was followed in the evening by the Gala Concert in the sold-out Great Hall of the Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music (NFM) in Wroclaw, Poland. Both events represented the highly deserved conclusion for musical performances in the classical sector reviewed during the past year, which were accompanied and judged…

From the list of their 16 winning audio and video productions, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the overall winner of the Recording of the Year Award. The award goes to the Video Opera category.

ICMA and the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland, present a spectacular Award Ceremony Gala tonight, Friday 21 April at 19:00. The concert will be available for free to wider audiences by livestream on Deutsche Welle’s YouTube Channel.