Katowice in southern Poland has been awarded the status of UNESCO City of Music. The Silesian city boasts such prestigious ensembles as the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with its recently-opened concert hall, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Silesian Quartet, and the Camerata Silesia Choir. Katowice is also the venue of thirty music festivals. It will host the International Classical Music Awards ICMA in 2018. Katowice is the first Central and Eastern European city to win the title.

The ICMA Jury is progressing in the voting for the Audio and Video Awards 2016. Today we are able to publish the Finalists, in other words the three productions of which one will be the winner. Read More →

Die von dem Pianisten und zweimaligen ICMA-Preisträger Joseph Moog sowie der Deutschen Radio Philharmonie unter der Leitung des Dirigenten Nicholas Milton eingespielte CD mit Klavierkonzerten von Edvard Grieg und Moritz Moszkowski wurde in der Kategorie ‘Best Classical Instrumental Solo’ für den Grammy nominiert. Sie wurde auch für den ICMA 2016 nominiert.

The members of the ICMA Executive Board met in Paris last weekend in order to analyze the current voting process and prepare the Award Ceremony in San Sebastian on April 1, 2016.  The Board validated the list of finalists for the Award 2016 which will be officially published next Wednesday, December 9.

The ICMA nomination list for 2016 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 2016 awards the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has nominated 364 audio and video productions (up from 248 in 2015) from 115 labels (up from 85 in 2015). Read More →

Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, where the next ICMA General Assembly will take place in February 2016, has won three international awards. For 175 years, healing, body-temperature thermal waters have flowed from the spring in the Tamina gorge to the Bad Ragaz spa resort in Eastern Switzerland. The quality label World’s Leading Swimming Pools™ was followed by two further prizes in November, as the resort was named “Best in Switzerland” and included in the global “Best for Hot Springs” category at the international Spafinder Wellness Travel Awards in London.

This week, the billboard at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig (where ICMA will, have its Gala 2017) announces a concert « For Dmitrij Kitajenko’s 75th birthday ». The Gewandhaus Orchestra and Dimitrij Kitajenko have a close connection since decades, and to celebrate the conductor’s so special birthday, they perform together an appealing Prokofiev-Tchaikovsky-program in the premium Gewandhaus series ‘Grosses Concert’. Read More →

Formidable prise de rôle pour Jodie Devos, ‘Young Artist of the Year’ des ICMA, dont Rosine est la première héroïne de premier plan dans sa jeune carrière inaugurée en 2014 par un 2e Prix au Concours Reine Elisabeth. Très à l’aise, elle a fasciné le public par une maîtrise totale de la redoutable vélocité des mélodies rossiniennes, avec un succès immense pour son interprétation de ‘Una voce poco fa’, aussi brillante dans les coloratures que charmante dans la tendresse. Sans oublier une puissance vocale de premier plan, qui lui permit de dominer tous ses collègues dans le finale du premier acte.