Hereditary Prince Alois, on behalf of Prince Hans-Adam II, has awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Princely Liechtenstein Order of Merit to music manager Drazen Domjanic at Vaduz Castle, on account of his special services to the cultural sector of Liechtenstein. Read More →

ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) and Classeek announce a fundraiser for a groundbreaking collaboration between two distinguished ICMA award winners, composer Ivan Boumans, recipient of the Composer Award in 2020/21, and double-bass player Marc-André, honored with the ICMA-Classeek Award in 2023. Read More →

22-year-old German pianist Robert Neumann, ICMA Discovery Award winner 2017, has won the 2023 Audition of the New York Concert Artists & Associates. Subsequently he gave a recital at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center. Read More →

Classeek’s Ambassador program is consolidating its active support, becoming ever more diversified to support the program’s young talents. It has now found a solid base, and many musicians at the start of their careers are applying. Here you can discover the list of young musicians selected to join the Ambassador 2023/2024 program, as well as the season of their concerts broadcast online. Read More →

The 16-year-old Austrian violinist Leonhard Baumgartner, Discovery Award winner of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), has received the Zoltan Kodaly Prize at the International Summer Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Read More →

The video of the ICMA Gala Concert played by the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and featuring many winning artists from the 2023 panel is continuous successful on the YouTube channel of Deutsche Welle. More than half a million people saw it since April 21. Enthusiastic comments come from all over the world.

You can access the video via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUGuhH_XUo&t=1673s

The 22-year-old German pianist Robert Neumann – who was a 2017 Discovery Award winner at the ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) – has been appointed deputy artistic director of Cultur in Cannstatt and festival director of the Cannstatter Klavierfrühling. The organization is based in Bad Cannstatt, a district of the German city Stuttgart. Read More →

Austrian violinist Yury Revich, who won the Young Artist Award of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2015, is now increasingly presenting himself to audiences as a composer as well. After his very first work, the violin concerto Awakening successfully debuted in Salzburg last year, his first symphony, Kaleidoskope, was recently premiered in London at St. Georges’ Cathedral. Read More →

Conductor and composer David Philip Hefti, winner of the ICMA Composer Award 2023, is Composer in Residence at this year’s Zermatt Music Festival, where he will present his new octet Des Zaubers Spuren, commissioned by the festival for the Scharoun Ensemble, among other works. The festival was founded in 2005 by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philhamoniker and built around an orchestral and chamber music academy. Read More →