From the list of their 15 winning audio and video productions, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the overall winner of the Recording of the Year Award. It goes to the CD Visions, winner in the Vocal Recital category, with music by Bizet, Bruneau, David, Février, Franck, Godard, Halévy, Massenet, Niedermeyer, and Saint-Saëns, sung by Véronique Gens. Read More →
The NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice is performing ICMA’s Gala Concert 2018 tomorrow, 6 April at the NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice. The concert will be conducted by NOSPR Music Director Alexander Liebreich, as well as by Manfred Honeck, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony and ICMA Artist of the Year. The Orchestra, « ranks among the leading European ensembles », the Jury says, and is a winner of an ICMA Special Achievement Award. Alexander Liebreich won in the category Contemporary Music with the recording of Tigran Mansurian’s Requiem. Read More →
Two young Polish artists will perform during this year’s ICMA Award Ceremony in Katowice. The first one, Piotr Alexewicz (*2000) has been proposed by the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music, which won a Special Achievement Award from ICMA. Read More →
NOSPR Katowice
The Award Ceremony 2018 of ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) will be hosted by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice and take place on April 6 in the orchestra’s concert hall. The program of the Gala concert will feature several winners of ICMA. Read More →
After having suspended conductor James Levine, 74, over allegations of sexual abuse, New York’s Metropolitan Opera has fired him, after an internal inquiry found « credible evidence » to support claims he sexually abused young male musicians. Read More →
Jodie Devos
Belgian soprano Jodie Devos, ICMA’s Young Artist of the Year 2015, develops her career in a great way: in August she will make her debut in the United States, singing at the Mostly Mozart Festival the soprano part in Mozart’s Requiem under the baton of Louis Langrée. The concerts will take place at the David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center.
Nikolai Song, Remy Franck & Yuan Yu
Two ICMA Discovery Award winners, Nikolai Song (2016) and Yuan Yu (2018) met in Paris with ICMA President Remy Franck to discuss further common activities and their own options for a musical future. Both of the young musicians are currently studying at the National Conservatory in Paris.
Yesterday, in the Town Hall of Vaduz, in presence of mayor Ewald Ospelt, Dr. Ernst Walch, president of the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra and ICMA president Remy Franck signed the contract for the organization of the ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala Concert which will take place in April, 2021 in Vaduz.
Here is the TV report from Das Liechtensteiner Fernsehen 1FL.Li.
Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein
Today, in the Town Hall of Vaduz, in presence of mayor Ewald Ospelt, Dr. Ernst Walch, president of the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra and ICMA president Remy Franck signed the contract for the organization of the ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala Concert which will take place in April, 2021 in Vaduz. Read More →
