ICMA Board members and executive staff members of Leipzig’s Gewandhaus participated in a preparatory meeting for the organization of the ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala Concert on April1, 2017. The Gewandhaus was represented by its General Manager Prof. Andreas Schulz, Christian Fanghänel, Head of Marketing and Sales, Dörte Heidrich, Event Planning, Press officer Dirk Steiner and Annegret Suske, Production office. For the ICMA Jury President Remy Franck and Board member Martin Hoffmeister took part. The winners for the next International Classical Music Awards will be published on January 19, 2017.

Der ICMA-Partner für die Gala 2019, das Luzerner Sinfonieorchester und sein Chefdirigent James Gaffigan widmen sich in der 211. Saison des Orchesters dem Werk Beethovens. Zusammen mit Oliver Schnyder werden sämtliche Klavierkonzerte Beethovens sowie Ouvertüren aufgeführt und für Sony Classical eingespielt. Read More →

Mit der ‘Classical Next’ ging am vergangenen Wochenende in der niederländischen Metropole Rotterdam die weltweit größte Klassik-Messe zu Ende. Im Fokus des wichtigsten Branchentreffs der Szene standen zahlreiche prominent besetzte Panels, Konferenzen, Vorträge und Konzerte. Rund 1200 Delegierte und Aussteller aus 45 Ländern präsentierten zudem neue Technologien, Tonträger und Strategien und diskutierten über neue Distributionswege und Präsentationsformen für klassische Musik ebenso wie über die Zukunft physischer Tonträger. Read More →

To complement its digital resource portal dedicated to the French musical heritage of the nineteenth century, Bru Zane Mediabase, ICMA Special Award winner Palazzetto Bru Zane has launch Bru Zane Classical Radio, a web radio that will stream non-stop programmes of French Romantic music twenty-four hours a day. Read More →

Opera and operettas, recitals, chamber music and family concert: French romantic music in all its forms! From June 3 until June 8, ICMA Award Winner Palazzetto Bru Zane organizes the fourth edition of its Parisian festival. This year the programming is extended, following a new partnership with the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where Spontini’s tragédie lyrique Olympie (1819) will be performed under the baton of Jérémie Rohrer. Read More →

ICMA Jury member Radio Orpheus in Moscow started an ambitious project to revive the heritage of Russian composers. It includes the restoration of rare vocal scores and books, the discovery of unknown or rare music in archives, and subsequent concert performances and recordings. Read More →

Der Pianist Mario Häring, Stipendiat des ICMA-Partners Internationale Musikakademie Liechtenstein spielt am 5. Juni in der Berlin Philharmonie das Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 2 c-Moll op. 18 von Sergei Rachmaninov. Begleitet wird er vom Orchester ‘Junges Ensemble Berlin’ unter der Leitung von Michael Riedel. Info: http://mariohaering.com/en/ und  http://www.junges-ensemble-berlin.de/

The Next Generation Festival in the Swiss resort Bad Ragaz is busy promoting young musicians also between its February festivals. From 13 to 15 October 2016 a three-day festival titled MusicConnects is now being organised to bring young artists to Bad Ragaz and the hotel Grand Resort once again. Read More →

The 5th gala concert of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein last Sunday (8 May) in Schaan, was a feast of young music talents. Like speaker Remy Franck, president of the International Classical Music Awards, said in his keynote address, one would hardly find elsewhere in Europe such a concentration of young international music talents in a lot of different instrumental groups. Read More →