ICMA Announce Classic Event Of The Year
Leipzig’s Gewandhaus will host on 1 April an outstanding classic event: ICMA’s Gala Concert and Award Ceremony.
Leipzig’s Gewandhaus will host on 1 April an outstanding classic event: ICMA’s Gala Concert and Award Ceremony.
Yesterday, with ICMA President Remy Franck attending, the new trophy of the International Classical Music Awards was revealed in Paris. Unlike the old one, which served for the six first years of the most important international music award in the world, the new one has a more modernistic approach.
An in-depth interview (in German) with ICMA artists Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott about their winning recording ‘Duo Sessions (Orfeo) is available on the Pizzicato website. Here is the link.
German pianist Robert Neumann (*2001), winner of ICMA’s Discovery Award 2017, has been raised in a musical family. He was eleven, when he was admitted as junior student in the class of Prof. Elza Kolodin at the die Musikhochschule Freiburg, and when he turned 15, be became a regular student. He also studies at the…
25 year old ICMA Young Artist Yury Revich has joined the roster of the Keynote Artist Management in London. He was Young Artist of the Year of the International Classical Music Awards in 2015. Key Note is a rather small agency with interesting projects and artists like Hélène Grimaud, Nicolas Altstaedt, Teodor Currentzis and Filippo…
With Florian Noack, Robert Neumann and Ensemble Esperanza In Leipzig, on 1 April, for the first time, the ICMA Award Ceremony taking place prior to the Gala Concert will not only comprise the trophy presentations and related speeches, but also music. In its General Assembly in Luslawice, the Jury members decided to include this year…
At the Seventh Next General Festival at the Grand Resort in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, ICMA president Remy Franck honored three of the winners of this year’s awards which will be officially presented at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig on 1 April.
ICMA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Matti Salminen has been among the most famous basses of opera stages already over 40 years. He is especially famous in Wagner-roles, but his repertoire is large, reaching even to Finnish tangos. His steady, resonant bass is flexible enough also for subtle nuances, and he emphasizes opera always as a…
The Jury with the General Manager of the Penderecki Centre, Adam Balas (4th from the right) at the bust of Krzysztof Penderecki
The ICMA Jury held their General Assembly 2017 at the European Penderecki Center for Music in Luslawice, Poland. The Jury members decided upon the Special Awards for the coming years, set up the deadlines for the votes for the Awards 2018. One major decision was made for the audio categories where the Best Collection category…