Westdeutsche Sinfonia
(c) Horst A. Scholz
The Westdeutsche Sinfonia, a hand-picked best-of ensemble of the major North Rhine-Westphalian orchestras founded in 1987 and directed by Dirk Joeres, and the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) have agreed to a collaboration, under which the Westdeutsche Sinfonia will stage an annual concert featuring one of the young artists honored by the ICMA. The first…
Ermonela Jaho
@Fadil Berisha
One of the best opera singers today, Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho was named Artist of the Year 2023 by the International Classical Music Awards jury. A great opportunity to have an ample discussion with a tremendous artist about art, music, sacrifices, the hard work you need to put in constantly, and best of all about…
By mid-December 2022 over a quarter of a million people had seen the live recording of the ICMA Gala Concert at the Philharmonie in Luxembourg, with winners of the International Classical Music Awards 2022 and the Luxembourg Philharmonic conducted by Adam Fischer. The video is still available in Deutsche Welle’s YouTube channel and has now…
Vilde Frang
(c) Marco Borggreve
Vilde Frang has been one of the best-known violinists for at least a decade and a half. Her list of awards and accolades is already long, the most recent being the ICMA Prize for her recording of Beethoven’s and Stravinsky’s Violin Concertos. Gábor Mesterházi from ICMA Jury member Papageno, Budapest, made the following interview with…
NFM Wroclaw
During the Award Ceremony of the International Classical Music Awards on 21 April in Wroclaw three ensembles from the National Forum of Music will enrich the Award presentation, showing how rightly NFM deserves the Special Achievement Award it has been awarded by the ICMA Jury.
Leonhard Baumgartner
(c) Andrej Grilc
The winner of ICMA’s 2023 Discovery Award is 16-year-old Austrian violinist Leonhard Baumgartner, a scholar of the International Music Academy Liechtenstein. He already won prizes like 1st Prize at Zhuhai International Mozart Competition, 1st Prize and Grand Prix at Stockholm International Music Competition. He also was Wiener Symphoniker Talent and made his debut as soloist…
Mahan Esfahani
(c) Kaja Smith
Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani (Tehran, 1984) won an ICMA 2023 in the Category Baroque Instrumental with his CD Bach: Italian Concerto – French Overture (Hyperion). Eduardo Torrico from the Spanish magazine Scherzo, member of the ICMA Jury, made the following interview with the artist. Mahan Esfahani never leaves anyone indifferent. Neither when he plays music…
Palau de la Música, València
The Palau de la Música de València and the International Classical Music Awards have announced that the annual ICMA Awards Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place on April 12, 2024 at the Palau de la Música València, with the Orquesta de València conducted by its artistic and musical director Alexander Liebreich. The event will…
Saò Soulez Larivière
(c) Clara Evens
The repertoire for the viola is limited. But it is growing – also thanks to Sào Soulez Larivière. The viola virtuoso, born in 1998, loves to arrange works for his instrument and experiment with the contemporary. His musical brilliance and versatility have already earned him several awards. This year he is the recipient of the…
