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Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, where the next ICMA General Assembly will take place in February 2016, has won three international awards. For 175 years, healing, body-temperature thermal waters have flowed from the spring in the Tamina gorge to the Bad Ragaz spa resort in Eastern Switzerland. The quality label World’s Leading Swimming Pools™ was followed by two further prizes in November, as the resort was named “Best in Switzerland” and included in the global “Best for Hot Springs” category at the international Spafinder Wellness Travel Awards in London.

This week, the billboard at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig (where ICMA will, have its Gala 2017) announces a concert « For Dmitrij Kitajenko’s 75th birthday ». The Gewandhaus Orchestra and Dimitrij Kitajenko have a close connection since decades, and to celebrate the conductor’s so special birthday, they perform together an appealing Prokofiev-Tchaikovsky-program in the premium Gewandhaus series ‘Grosses Concert’. Read More →

Formidable prise de rôle pour Jodie Devos, ‘Young Artist of the Year’ des ICMA, dont Rosine est la première héroïne de premier plan dans sa jeune carrière inaugurée en 2014 par un 2e Prix au Concours Reine Elisabeth. Très à l’aise, elle a fasciné le public par une maîtrise totale de la redoutable vélocité des mélodies rossiniennes, avec un succès immense pour son interprétation de ‘Una voce poco fa’, aussi brillante dans les coloratures que charmante dans la tendresse. Sans oublier une puissance vocale de premier plan, qui lui permit de dominer tous ses collègues dans le finale du premier acte.

ICMA partner International Music Academy of the Principality of Liechtenstein has set up another appealing Next Generation Festival in Bad Ragaz (St. Gallen/Switzerland). The ICMA Jury will held its annual General Assembly during the festival which will take place in February 2016. Read More →

ICMA Artist of the Year Christian Tetzlaff performed Mozart’s Concerto no.3 in Vienna, and ICMA Young Artist of the Year, Yury Revich, went backstage at the Musikverein to chat with his colleague.

The Euskadi Symphony Orchestra, host of the ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala Concert 2016, the management of Donostia San Sebastian European Capital of Culture 2016 and ICMA President Remy Franck met in San Sebastian on Wednesday October 7 in order to launch the final phase of the preparation for the 2016 event set to take place on April 1 at the Kursaal in San Sebastian. Read More →