Wu Wei
(c) Martin Hoffmeister / ICMA
The ICMA Award 2015 in the category Contemporary music went to a Deutsche Grammophon recording featuring music by Korean composer Unsuk Chin, including the Concerto for Sheng and orchestra, performed by Wu Wei and the Seoul Philharmonic conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. The famous Chinese Sheng player Wu Wei took part in the ICMA Award Ceremony…
ICMA Awards Winners are very versatile! Two of them have just published books: the conductor John Axelrod and the violinist Daniel Hope.
Fazil Say
(c) Marco Borggreve
ICMA’s partner, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Ankara, Turkey) will perfom the Nâzım Oratorio by Fazil Say on 29 & 30 August. This 75 minutes long oratorio for narrator, mezzosoprano, baritone, children’s voice, piano, mixed choir and orchestra, op. 9 is an homage to the famous Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet. It was composed in 2001. The…
Zhu Xiao Mei
(c) ICMA / Hoffmeister
Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao Mei* won an ICMA Special Award 2015 with her Bach recordings for Accentus Music**. ICMA Jury member Nicola Catto has made the following interview with her.
Dmitrij Kitajenko in concert
(c) Gerd Mothes
ICMA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Dimitrij Kitajenko turns 75 today. He was born on 18 March 1840 in St. Petersburg and studied at the Glinka School of Music and the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, later also with Leo Ginzburg in Moscow and in the legendary conducting class of Hans Swarowsky and Karl Österreicher in Vienna.
Sara Domjanic
Sara Domjanic, Stipendiatin des ICMA Partners ‘Internationale Musikakademie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein’ ist auf dem Weg des Erfogs. Sie hat kürzlich ein umjubeltes Debüt beim Menuhin Festival in Gstaad absolviert, wo sie mit dem ‘Festival Academy Orchestra’ unter der Leitung von Kevin Griffiths Wieniawskis Konzert Nr. 2 in d-Moll spielte. Am 15. und 16 August 2015…
Charles Dutoit
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Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit (ICMA Lifetime Achievement Award 2014) will open the D-Marin Turgutreis International Classical Music Festival in Bodrum with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO). Charles Dutoit will conduct two concerts with Denis Matsuev (piano) and Sarah Chang (violin). The festival is one of the most important in Turkey and this event is the…
Remy Franck, presenting the Mahler Trophy
(c) Patrick Varotto
The Jury of the Mahler-Record Prize in Toblach (South Tyrol) has given one of the prizes for 2015 to a CD featuring Mahlers Fourth Symphony in the chamber version of Erwin Stein, recorded for Cavi by Christiane Oelze and the Festival Ensemble Spannungen composed among others by Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff. The Jury with Attila…
Adrien Boisseau, ICMA’s Young Artist Of The Year 2014, has published his debut CD with the German label Oehms Classics (OC 1819). Together with pianist Gaspard Dehaene French viola player performs an entire Schumann program with Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 73, Märchenbilder, (Fairy Tale Pictures), Op. 113, Drei Romanzen, (Three Romances), Op. 94, Märchenerzählungen, (Fairy…
