Elsa Dreisig
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Soprano Elsa Dreisig, ICMA Young Artists of the Year 2017, has signed an exclusive recording contract with Erato, with her debut album to be released in October 2018.
Charles Adriaenssen
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This year, the record label Alpha is Label of the Year of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). Alpha belongs to Belgian music group Outhere (Alpha, Ricercar, Fuga Libera, Ramée, ZigZag, Arcana, Phi, Linn…). ICMA Jury member Juan Lucas (Scherzo, Spain) has made the following interview with Outhere’s Chairman Charles Adriaenssen. How would you describe…
On Saturday 12 May, the Croatian Radio HRT will broadcast the ICMA Gala concert which took place at NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice. The concert was conducted by NOSPR Music Director Alexander Liebreich, as well as by Manfred Honeck, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony and ICMA Artist of the Year.
The winner of this year’s IMCA Discovery Award, which the Jury organizes in collaboration with the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, Chinese flutist Yuan Yu, recently played two concerts in Asia. The first recital took place at the Yamaha Hall in Ginza, Tokyo, and a few days later he performed another recital in this native…
After the live broadcast by the Polish Radio and the deferred broadcast by MDR Kultur, three of the radio stations which are a member in the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards have announced their broadcasts of the ICMA Gala Concert with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestre in Katowice, on 6 April 2018.
The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has admitted Polskie Radio Chopin as Jury member. Polskie Radio Chopin was launched in November by the Polish public radio. It is entirely dedicated to classical music and operates 24/24 in the Internet. The name of Chopin in the title is a symbol as well as…
The German Music Industry Association has finally abolished its ECHO Awards after the world-wide indignation about the award given to rap duo Kollegah and Farid Bang, who used anti-semitic, misogynist, homophobe lyrics, contemptuous of human dignity. Numerous artists had returned their awards, and presumably nobody would ever again have accepted such an award.
Three of the radio stations which are a member in the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards have announced their broadcasts of the ICMA Gala Concert with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestre in Katowice, on 6 April 2018.
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In the sold-out NOSPR concert hall in Katowice, 1800 people applauded on Friday evening (6.04.18) the performing artists and the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice at the 8th Gala concert of the International Classical Music awards, ICMA.
