After their performances at the ICMA Gala Concerts in 2012 and 2014, two double ICMA Award winners were reunited this weekend in Saarbrücken, Krzysztof Penderecki and pianist Joseph Moog. After the world premiere of Penderecki’s Trumpet Concertino with Gabor Boldoczki, Joseph Moog was the soloist in Karol Szymanowski’s ‘Symphonie concertante’.

ICMA Young artist of the year 2015 Jodie Devos will make her role debut as Rosina in Rossini’s ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ at the Opera in Liège (Belgium). Four performances are scheduled from 18 to 24 October.

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 →