Karol Mossakowski
Karol Mossakowski, titular organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ in Saint-Sulpice in Paris since last February, is one of the most promising artists among the rising figures of the young organ school.
Andrzej Kosendiak
(c) Lukasz Rajchert
On 21 April, the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Poland, is hosting the annual ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala concert. Jakub Puchalski from ICMA Jury member Polskie Radio Chopin made the following interview with Andrzej Kosendiak, the Director of NFM. The National Forum of Music is a musical institution, but it’s also a venue…
NFM Wroclaw
ICMA and the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland, present a spectacular Award Ceremony Gala on Friday 21 April. The concert will be available for free to wider audiences by livestream on Deutsche Welle’s YouTube Channel, where the ICMA Gala 2002 at the Philharmonie in Luxembourg experiences an ongoing success with, by now, 650.000…
NFM Wroclaw
The ICMA Gala Concert taking place at the NFM National Forum of Music Wrocław on 21 April is sold out, an NFM spokesperson said. This means that the artists playing with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic conducted by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero will face an audience of 1800, plus the worldwide audience of the planned video…
Eleonora Buratto
Fresh from her personal success as Antonia in Tales of Hoffmann at La Scala, Eleonora Buratto is experiencing a particularly happy moment in her career: the Mantuan soprano, in fact, in recent years has racked up a series of debuts in a very wide repertoire, ranging from Rossini’s Otello to Puccini’s Butterfly, passing through that…
Alessandro Marangoni
(c) Daniele Cruciani
This year, the jury of International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) honours Italian pianist Alessandro Marangoni with a special prize for this ponderous recording venture, which has come to an end and which Naxos has published in a single boxed set. In the ICMA Gala concert in Wroclaw, Marangoni will play Chopin’s Andante spianato et Grande…
Hans Abrahamsen
(c) Lars Skaaning
Since he wrote Winternacht in 1978, the reference to snow has gradually become a constant in the music of Hans Abrahamsen (Copenhagen, *1952). “It captures me”, he says. “What fascinates me about snow is its whiteness, as well as the idea that it can turn to ice”. But Abrahamsen is also very aware of “the…
Since e few days the new Internet radio station for classical music, Opus 100,7, is online and can be listened to via the website www.opus.radio. Opus 100,7 is an initiative of the public broadcaster that already operates Radio 100,7.
Marc-André Teruel
Last January, the jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced the launch of a Classeek Award to promote an outstanding young musician among the finalists of the Classeek Ambassador Program, a platform for emerging artists whose main initiative is an annual program to discover, support and promote promising young classical musicians. Marc-André Teruel,…
