Henri Dutilleux
(c) ICMA/Martin Hoffmeister
In 2016, the music world is going to celebrate the 100th anniversary of one of the greatest French composers, Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), who won the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007, when pour Jury still functioned under the name MIDEM Classical Awards. Read More →
Jodie Devos
Jodie Devos, ICMA Young Artist of the Year 2015 just opened the Royal Juillet musical de Saint-Hubert in the South of Belgium with a concert in Marches-en-Famennes. This Festival is a part of the Festival of Wallonia. Jodie Devos performed a selection from the Chants d’Auvergne by Joseph Canteloube with the Orchestre philharmonique royal de Liège conducted by the Dutch Pieter-Jelle de Boer.
ICMA partner Internationale Musikakademie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein is proud to announce that one of their students, Romanian Cellist Andrei Ionita, has won First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Ionita will be a participant at the 2016 Next Generation Festival in Bad Ragaz and he will be the soloist of a concert with the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra in Vaduz.
The NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice
ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) announces that the Award Ceremony and the Gala Concert 2018 will take place in Katowice, Poland. ICMA President Remy Franck says: « We are happy and proud to have one of the best Polish orchestras as partner for our event, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. We know this orchestra very well, since our Jury already awarded it several prizes in the past ». Read More →
ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) announces the Croatian Radiotelevision HRT as a new full Jury member. With headquarters in Zagreb, HRT (Croatian: Hrvatska radiotelevizija) is a public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels. The official delegate for the ICMA Jury is Mrs. Sanda Vojkovic. Read More →
Dmitrij Kitajenko & Mayor Milan Bandic
(c) Remy Franck
In a ceremony at Dverce Palace in Zagreb, ICMA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Dmitrij Kitajenko has been honoured by the mayor of the Croatian capital, Milan Bandic. Kitajenko is Artistic adviser of Zagreb’s Philharmonic Orchestra. By his professionalism and his commitment, Kitajenko managed to bring the orchestra on a higher level, Bandic said. Read More →
The ‘Orchestre National of Pays de la Loire’ (ONPL) is in danger. The orchestra, which is currently financed by several local regional and national partners, risks to lose the support of the Département Maine et Loire. These would diminish the budget by 7.22% (464.373 €). Such a loss would no longer allow the orchestra to fully run its program, and a complete new definition of its activities would be necessary, calling into question the whole artistic project of principal conductor Pascal Rophé. The Orchestra is asking the politicians to think over their intention and launched a petition. You may sign here.
Yury Revich
Der russische Geiger Yury Revich, ‘ICMA Young Artist of the Year 2015’, tritt am 27. Juni im Linzer Brucknerhaus bei der ‘2. Österreichischen Benefizgala für Menschen mit Down Syndrom’ auf. Der Abend steht unter dem Motto ‘Bildung und Arbeit’. Neben Revich partizipieren auch die Sängerin Ildiko Raimondi, die rumänische Sopranistin Nicoletta Radu, der serbische Akkordeonist Nikola Djoric und das Sinfonische Kammerorchester Oberösterreich unter Tobias Wögerer.
The Festival de Wallonie, the most important festival in the French speaking part of Belgium, will present three ICMA winners during its 2015 edition. David Kadouch (Young Artist ICMA 2011) will perform in Brussels and Jodie Devos (Young Artist ICMA 2015) in Brussels and Saint-Hubert. The vocal ensemble Vox Luminis (ICMA Baroque Vocal 2012) will be one of the main guests, with concerts in Namur, Saint-Hubert, Stavelot, Liège and Mons.
