Normally, at the Award Ceremony which was scheduled to be held in Seville today, 30 April, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards would have announced the winner of the Recording of the Year Award, which is chosen among the winners of the various audio and video categories. Well, the Award Ceremony and the Gala Concert having been cancelled, the announcement is just made via the Internet. Read More →

Today, the 10^th ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala Concert was to take place in Seville. A microscopic virus prevented this. This should not let us to forget that we have winners in 2020, a brilliant list of outstanding artists and recordings. Moreover, the tenth anniversary is the occasion to think of all the winners we had since 2011. Ten years, that’s almost 300 Awards given to a broad spectrum of musicians from all genres, from the most well-known artists to the young ones who are at the very beginning of their career. Read More →

Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the most outstanding contemporary composers died this morning at the age of 86. Born in 1933 in Dębica, he started composing at the age of 8. He received several awards from ICMA, among them the Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 in Nantes. Here is an obituary written by ICMA President Remy Franck.

Since some years, the ICMA Jury invites young musicians to the Award Ceremonies, where they can perform for a select audience with winners, industry representatives, Jury members and guests. This year two musicians will enrich the ceremony, Spanish guitarist Pedro Rojas-Ogayar as well as Greek flutist Stathis Karapanos. They were invited by the jury on the proposal of John Axelrod who will conduct the Gala Concert with the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville on 30 April 2020. Read More →

On 18 April 2021 Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein will host the 11th Award Ceremony and Gala Concert of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in Vaduz. A meeting took place today in Liechtenstein’s capital city with the General Manager of the orchestra, Drazen Domjanic, and the President of ICMA, Remy Franck. Read More →

At this year’s VP Bank Classic Festival in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, ICMA President Remy Franck presented the 16-year-old German cellist Philipp Schupelius, the winner of the ICMA Discovery Award 2020. In a chamber music concert at the Kursaal of Bad Ragaz Grand Resort, Philipp amazed the audience with a transcription of Schubert’s Erlkönig by Bernhard Cossmann. Together with pianist Polina Sasko he gave a very stylish performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Variations of ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozarts Magic Flute. Finally, he played Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Trio op. 1/3 together with pianist Arsen Dalibaltayan and violinist Clara Shen.

The ten-year Award Ceremony and Gala concert in Seville, on April 30th at 8 pm at the Teatro de la Maestranza, will be one of the richest, most diverse and colourful in the ICMA history, with one of the most impressive line-ups of musicians ever. Read More →

The International Classical Music Awards are celebrating this year their 10th anniversary. ICMA was created in 2010 as the successor of the MIDEM Classical Awards, formerly Cannes Classical Awards. The Award ceremony and Gala Concert scheduled for the 30th of April 2020 in Seville and hosted by the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville will be the tenth in a row. Read More →