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The City Council of Krakow, Poland, has unanimously voted in favour of granting Honorary citizenship to the composer Krzysztof Penderecki, winner of ICMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. A special ceremony is to be held after the summer holidays, before the composer’s 80th birthday in November. The City Council described Penderecki as one of the…
Jury President Remy Franck
The second edition of Classical:NEXT takes place from today, 29 May until 1 June in Vienna, Austria. After a successful premiere in Munich last year, the new professional forum for classical music is set to become the annual meeting point for the classical music scene. The new venue for the Classical:NEXT exhibition and conference spaces…
The interview with Young Artist of the Year Alessandro Mazzamuto is now online: http://www.icma-info.com/alessandro-mazzamuto-without-emotion-music-ceases-to-exist/
Interview by Stephen Hastings (Musica) Alessandro Mazzamuto is ICMA’s Young Artist of the Year 2013 in the instrumental category. He was born in Catania in 1988 and graduated from the Music Institute Vincenzo Bellini in Catania, under the guidance of Epifanio Comis, with honors and honorable mention. Finalist at the 58th edition of the prestigious…
Bilkent Symphony Orchestra of Ankara, which will host the ICMA Award ceremony and Gala concert on 28 March, 2015, has performed the Ankara premiere of Mahler’s 8th Symphony. The performance on 30 April was the closing concert of the 30th Ankara International Music Festival. The Bilkent Symphony, conducted by music director Isin Metin shared the…
The interview with Lifetime Achievement winner Aldo Ciccolini is now online: Aldo Ciccolini: And then there is this endless passion for music …
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The ICMA jury gave the Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 to Aldo Ciccolini. The Jury says: « A pianistic legend in his own lifetime, Aldo Ciccolini has been performing all over the world for more than seventy years now. His numerous recordings, some of which offer a generous overview of a composer’s works, have gained ever-increasing critical…
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For his recording of Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird (in the Melodiya box Les Ballets Russes) Dmitrij Kitajenko won the ICMA prize in the category ‘Historical Recording’. Backstage, Radio Orpheus’ Roman Berchenko made the following interview with Maestro Kitajenko.
Audite, ‘Label of the year 2013’ at the International Classical Music Awards, has been established 40 years ago in Germany and has developed since as a major classical label in Europe. In this interview made by ResMusica, Ludger Böckenhoff, General Manager of Audite, tells more about its history and its projects.
