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Austrian violinist Yury Revich, who won the Young Artist Award of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2015, is now increasingly presenting himself to audiences as a composer as well. After his very first work, the violin concerto Awakening successfully debuted in Salzburg last year, his first symphony, Kaleidoskope, was recently premiered in London at St. Georges’ Cathedral. Read More →

Conductor and composer David Philip Hefti, winner of the ICMA Composer Award 2023, is Composer in Residence at this year’s Zermatt Music Festival, where he will present his new octet Des Zaubers Spuren, commissioned by the festival for the Scharoun Ensemble, among other works. The festival was founded in 2005 by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philhamoniker and built around an orchestral and chamber music academy. Read More →

Sào Soulez Larivière, viola, ICMA Young Artist of the Year 2023, will be part of the Rising Stars series 2024/25 of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO). Sào Soulez Larivière has been nominated by Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Müpa Budapest and Barbican Centre London.

Available on Deutsche Weller’s YouTube channel since April 2002, the live recording of the ICMA Gala 2022 made in the Philharmonie Luxembourg was seen now by one million people. This makes this video with winners of the International Classical Music Awards 2022 one of the most successful productions of classical music in the Internet. Read More →

The video of the ICMA Gala Concert played by the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and featuring many winning artists from the 2023 panel is continuous successful on the YouTube channel of Deutsche Welle. More than 250.000 people saw it since April 21. Enthusiastic comments come from all over the world. You can access the video via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUGuhH_XUo&t=1673s

The video of the ICMA Gala Concert played by the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and featuring many winning artists from the 2023 panel is highly successful on the YouTube channel of Deutsche Welle. More than 100.000 people saw it in less than a month, and the number is continuously growing. You can access the video via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUGuhH_XUo&t=1673s

Francisco Coll (born 1985), winner of the ICMA Composer Award 2019, will be paying tribute to painter Joaquín Sorolla (Valencia 1863 – Cercedilla, Madrid 1923) during the Iturbi Prize, organised by the Valencia Provincial Government or Diputació, with his work Madre [Mother]. Read More →

Vom Schweizer Komponisten und Dirigenten David Philip Hefti, Preisträger des Composer Award 2023 der International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), wird am 24. Mai in der Oper Graz das Ballett ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ uraufgeführt. Read More →