Posts by: Remy Franck

The Danel Quartet wins the 2025 International Classical Music Awards in the Chamber Music category with their album dedicated to Dmitri Shostakovich’s string quartets, released by Accentus. Here is an interview with the Romanian violist Vlad Bogdănaș, a member of the Danel Quartet since 2004, done by Ariadna Ene-Iliescu from the ICMA Jury member Radio…

The winner of the ICMA-Classeek award 2025 is the Italian cellist Ettore Pagano. He came to the instrument as a self-taught and, after winning various competitions, he achieved today’s fame.  Giulia Vazzoler from the Italian ICMA Jury member Musica made the following interview with him. Bolognese mother, Neapolitan father, Ettore Pagano grew up in the…

In the Video Opera category, the ICMA jury awarded the prize to a production that critics, especially Germans, have argued fiercely about before: Die Fledermaus, staged in Munich in December 2023 by Barrie Kosky with Vladimir Jurowski conducting and singers such as Diana Damrau, Georg Nigl, Martin Winkler and Katharina Konradi in the main roles…

The winner of this year’s Discovery Award, the young Turkish pianist Can Saraç (b. 2007), began his studies at the age of five at the piano department of the State Conservatory of Istanbul University and has been continuing his career for the past three years at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich….

Benjamin Kruithof is one of Luxembourg’s most promising young musicians. Born in 1999, he discovered his passion for the cello early on, guided by his family of string players. His journey has taken him from studies in Luxembourg, Maastricht, Cologne, and Berlin to the renowned Kronberg Academy. Winner of prestigious competitions like the Georges Enescu…

The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), often referred to as the ‘Oscars of classical music’ and among the most prestigious worldwide, announced their 2025 winners on January 14th.The award in the Symphonic Music category was claimed by conductor Cristian Măcelaru and the Orchestre National de France for the album featuring the two Romanian Rhapsodies and…

Polish conductor Łukasz Borowicz is among the musicians honored at this year’s International Classical music Awards with the album Urlicht featuring Samuel Hasselhorn and the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra. Jakub Puchalski from the ICMA Jury member Polskie Radio Chopin made the following interview with him. Seeing your many CDs, one can trace an idea behind them….

The jury of the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) presented a Lifetime Achievement Award three years ago, an Award for Mozart’s Complete Symphonies with the Danish National Chamber in 2015 and a Special Achievement Award this year to Adam Fischer, who will also conduct the ICMA Gala Concert 2025 at Tonhalle Düsseldorf on 19 March….

The South Korean composer Unsuk Chin, whose music was featured in a recent edition of the Berliner Philharmoniker, winner in the ICMA category Contemporary Music, talks about the reasons for her art and her sources of inspiration. The interview was made by Maggie S. Lorelli for Musica, the Italian member of the ICMA jury. Firmly…