In 2020, during the Croatian EU Presidency, Rijeka will be European Capital of Culture. One of the first events to take place ahead of the official program is the General Assembly of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). The Jury members from 16 countries will meet from 17-20 January in the Croatian City. The meeting is organized by Unison – Croatian Music Alliance. Read More →

This winter, the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, ICMA’s partner for the International Classical Music Awards 2023, embarks on a twelve-city US tour with conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director of the Polish orchestra since 2017. Read More →

In three rounds, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the releases competing in the finals for the awards 2020. « Our initial list with a total of 390 nominations comprised many very good as well as outstanding recordings. This long list has been reduced to three releases per category, our finalists for 2020 », Jury President Remy Franck said. « Inevitably, many excellent productions have been eliminated. The jury members tirelessly make it a duty of honor to select the very best among the best recordings. The task is definitely demanding and requires sometimes painful choices. But the eliminated recordings are still nominations and our nominations are undeniably a real recognition. » Read More →

Eva Gevorgyan, ICMA’s Discovery Award winner 2019, is at her young age already a busy concert pianist. In November she played a recital at Alzenau Musiktage, Germany. In October she had recitals in Boston, Cleveland and Canton/Ohio where she also performed with the Canton Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gerhardt Zimmermann. In summer she played recitals in Italy (Como and San Daniele) and Poland (Duszniki Chopin International Piano Festival). At the Verbier Festival (Switzerland) she was student-in-residence. Read More →

The Bonn-based German radio and television station Deutsche Welle, an ICMA Jury member,  has launched a new YouTube channel, DW Classical Music. With music documentaries, interviews, portraits of musicians and numerous concert recordings, it will provide a comprehensive look into the world of classical music, the station announces. DW Classical Music will show existing and new TV productions as well as formats produced and assembled especially for the new YouTube channel. New series and series are to be developed gradually. Click here for DW Classical Music.

The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has admitted Radio Romania Muzical as Jury member. Radio Romania Muzical – part of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company – was established in 1997 and is the only Romanian radio station dedicated to classical music. Read More →

The Kyoto Symphony Orchestra has announced a new musical team to take over in April 2020. Junichi Hirokami will become the orchestra’s 13th Chief Conductor & Artistic Advisor and the American John Axelrod, Principal Guest Conductor.  At the same time KSO will change its English name from Kyoto Symphony Orchestra to City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra. Read More →

The ICMA nomination list for 2020 is available. To see the list, just click on our Nominations button, which will lead you to lists sorted by labels or categories. For the 2020 awards the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has nominated 390 audio and video productions (319 in 2019) from 130 labels (107 in 2019). Read More →

As winners of an ICMA award in the category Symphonic Music, Dmitrij Kitajenko and the Gürzenich Orchestra were honoured yesterday at the Philharmonie in Cologne. Kitajenko and the Gürzenich Orchestra won the award this year for their CD with the Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius, published on Oehms Classics. Read More →