Ensemble Esperanza
(c) Christine Kocher
At the Seventh Next General Festival at the Grand Resort in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, ICMA president Remy Franck honored three of the winners of this year’s awards which will be officially presented at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig on 1 April. Read More →
The Jury with the General Manager of the Penderecki Centre, Adam Balas (4th from the right) at the bust of Krzysztof Penderecki
The ICMA Jury held their General Assembly 2017 at the European Penderecki Center for Music in Luslawice, Poland. The Jury members decided upon the Special Awards for the coming years, set up the deadlines for the votes for the Awards 2018. One major decision was made for the audio categories where the Best Collection category was split into two different categories. While the Best Collection category is kept for collections, there will be a new category for Assorted Programs, such as symphonies combined with concertos or chamber music.
The Jury also made further preparations for the upcoming Award Ceremony in Leipzig on 1 April 2017. Read More →
Penderecki Centre Lusławice
At the invitation of the Penderecki Centre, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards will have its annual General Assembly, January 27-30, in Luslawice, Poland. The Penderecki European Music Centre was inaugurated in 2013. The building has cost about €15.5 million and was financed by the European Union, the Malopolska Voivodship, the Polish state budget and the Krzysztof Penderecki Akademia Association. Read More →
The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards – ICMA today announced the winners for 2017. « The ICMA Jury comprises 16 leading media from 14 countries, having the most up to date knowledge of the classical music market. Our Jury is totally independent and international, and therefore provides reliable guidance to the global audience. Read More →
The ICMA Jury is progressing in the voting procedures for the Audio and Video Awards 2017. Today we are able to publish the Finalists, in other words the three productions of which one will be the winner. Read More →
Das ‘Festival Next Generation’ im Grand Hotel in Bad Ragaz, Schweiz, geht mit musikalischen Leckerbissen und noch mehr Besonderheiten in die 7. Runde. Es findet vom 10. bis 17. Februar 2017 statt. Read More →
The ICMA nomination list for 2017 is available. To get the list, just click on our Nominations button which will lead you to lists sorted by labels or categories.For the 2017 awards the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has nominated 321 audio and video productions (down from 364 in 2016) from 119 labels (up from 115 in 2016). Read More →
The American conductor Robert Trevino, 32, a native from Fort Worth, Texas, will be the new Music Director of the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra in San Sebastian from the Season 2017/2018. His initial contract runs through the 2019/2020 season. He will succeed Jun Märkl whose contract will end in June 2017. Märkl began his tenure in 2014. He conducted ICMA’s Gala concert in San Sebastian in April 2016.
Dmitrij Kitajenko
(c) Remy Franck
Thirty years ago, Dmitrij Kitajenko conducted the Gürzenich orchestra Cologne for the first time. Over 65 concerts, numerous opera performances and 29 CDs have come out from this fruitful relation. Read More →
