John Axelrod
The Kyoto Symphony Orchestra has announced a new musical team to take over in April 2020. Junichi Hirokami will become the orchestra’s 13th Chief Conductor & Artistic Advisor and the American John Axelrod, Principal Guest Conductor. At the same time KSO will change its English name from Kyoto Symphony Orchestra to City of Kyoto Symphony…
The ICMA nomination list for 2020 is available. To see the list, just click on our Nominations button, which will lead you to lists sorted by labels or categories. For the 2020 awards the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has nominated 390 audio and video productions (319 in 2019) from 130 labels…
The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has nominated 390 audio and video productions for the 2020 Awards. The Jury is voting upon these nominations according to the 2020 regulation. ICMA 2020 Nomination list sorted by categories ICMA 2020 Nomination list sorted by labels
Stefan Englert, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Remy Franck & Georg Heimbach
(c) Holger Taleinski
As winners of an ICMA award in the category Symphonic Music, Dmitrij Kitajenko and the Gürzenich Orchestra were honoured yesterday at the Philharmonie in Cologne. Kitajenko and the Gürzenich Orchestra won the award this year for their CD with the Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius, published on Oehms Classics.
Austrian-Russian Violinist Yury Revich, 28, Young Artist of the Year 2015, has arranged Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin and orchestra and will premiere this work with London’s Firebird Orchestra on October 22 at St George’s, Hanover Square in London Mayfair. The church is also known as Handel Church (the composer lived nearby and was…
NFM Wroclaw
This weekend, the signing of the agreement for the ICMA Award Ceremony 2023 took place at the National Forum of Music NFM in Wroclaw, Poland.
Eva Gevorgyan
Eva Gevorgyan, 15, ICMA Discovery Award winner 2019, won Second Price and the Press Award at the Van Cliburn International Young Pianists’ Competition in Fort Worth (USA).
Austrian-Russian violinist Yury Revich, 27, Young Artist of the Year of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2015, pursues a brilliant international career. Together with the Italian pianist Fiorenzo Pascalucci he launched their own Beethoven Project for the upcoming Beethoven Year 2020. They have prepared all of the composer’s violin sonatas in a historical…
Lawrence Foster (c) Ingo Höhn
After the Swiss Radio broadcasted this year’s Gala Concert of the International Classical Music Awards, other radio stations are doing so as well. MDR Kultur has the concert in its program on Friday, 24 May at 20h05. Radio 100,7 from Luxembourg will broadcast the Gala in its Euroradio series, on Thursday 06 June at 20h00. …
