Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit (Lifetime Achievement Award 2014) is the guest of the Saturday afternoon concert series of the Dutch Radio Avro, today (2 May) at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw). He is conducting two rarities: Maurice Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole as well as The Nightingale by Igor Stravinsky, with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus.

Am 29. Mai feiert in Wien ‘All for Autism’, eine künftig jedes Jahr stattfindende Benefizreihe, ihre Premiere. Diesjähriger Initiator ist der junge Violinist und ‘ICMA -Young Artist of the Year 2015’, Yury Revich, organisatorisch unterstützt durch die ehemalige Opernsängerin, Musikagentin und Veranstalterin, Irina Gulyaeva. Read More →

ICMA’s partner for the 2018 Award Ceremony, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra presents a new festival, Katowice Kultura Natura which will run from the 15th until the 24th of May 2015. Under the artistic direction of the NOSPR’s Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Alexander Liebreich, this music festival will showcase renowned soloists, ensembles and orchestras from Poland and abroad, in varied and ambitious programmes. Read More →

Russian radio Orpheus and Radio 100,7 from Luxembourg will broadcast the ICMA Gala Concert with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, 23 April 2015 from 20:00 – 22:00 respectively on 7 May from 14:00 – 16:00 (Internet Livestream: http://www.100komma7.lu/lu/go/on-air/). The concert was recorded on 28 March at the Bilkent Symphony Hall in Ankara. Read More →

In Bad Ragaz, where the ICMA General Assembly is to take place in February 2015, Europe’s largest sculpture exhibition is organized once more at Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. The Swiss Triennial Festival of Sculpture, known as Bad RagARTz, will be held for the sixth time now, and aims to be bigger and better than its predecessors, a beacon of the art world and the largest Swiss sculpture event of its kind. Read More →