During their General Assembly in Leipzig, last weekend, the ICMA Jury members elected the ICMA Executive Board for the next three years. The current board members, Remy Franck as President, Michelle Debra and Pierre-Jean Tribot as Vice Presidents as well as Martin Hoffmeister were confirmed, while the vacant seat of Stephen Hastings was taken by Serhan Bali, editor in chief of the Turkish magazine Andante. Read More →

Private donations and crowd funding were successful: the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, which was disbanded at the end of last year by the Danish Radio Corporation, has raised in a very short time enough money to bring the orchestra back on the podium. The orchestra’s chief conductor Adam Fischer will conduct the first benefit concert on 1 February. He will also take part in ICMA’s Gala concert with the Bilkent Orchestra on 28 March in Ankara. Fischer and the Danish National Chamber Orchestra won the Best Collection Award for their Complete Mozart Symphonies on Dacapo.

Valer Sabadus, ‘Young Artist of the Year’ der ICMA im Jahre 2013, singt die Titelrolle in Georg Friedrich Händels ‘Teseo’ bei den Händel-Festspielen Karlsruhe. Die Premiere, mit der auch die diesjährigen Händel-Festspiele eröffnet werden, findet am 20. Februar am Staatstheater Karlsruhe statt, Folgeaufführungen sind am 22., 25. und 27. Februar sowie am 01. März. Read More →

The 23 years old Russian violinist Yury Revich – he is based in Vienna  –  is ICMA’s Young Artist of the Year 2015. Having performed at Carnegie Hall and at La Scala, Musikverein, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and many others, he has his own concert series in Vienna, he is Artistic Director of the European-Russian Society for International Cooperation, he made some successful recordings and lives out his creativity also in filming and painting.  Read our interview in the ‘Intervew’ section.

The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced today the Awards for 2015. Conductor Dmitrij Kitajenko, 74, is honored with our Lifetime Achievement Award. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff is Artist of the Year, young violinist Yury Revich and Belgian soprano Jodie Devos are ICMA’s Young Artists of the Year. Leipzig based Accentus Music is Label of the Year. In total eight Special Awards are listed. Read More →

The musical world waits for the publication of the ICMA Awards 2015. The Jury will officially announce the results of the vote on Tuesday 20th of January. This year the list comprises no less than eight Special Awards and 15 CD and DVD Awards. The latter come from an initial list of 248 audio and video productions from 85 labels nominated for this year’s Awards.

The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards has given the Award in the category Best Collection to the outstanding recording of the Mozart Symphonies with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Adam Fischer, published by Dacapo. Jury president Remy Franck says: « These recordings show both the invigorating interpretation of Adam Fischer and the superb playing of the orchestra. The box is a magnificent, quite irresistibly enjoyable achievement. At a crucial moment in the existence of the orchestra and while last efforts are made to save it from being disbanded at the end of the year, ICMA gives the announcement of this particular award a top priority, some weeks ahead of the official proclamation in January. ICMA urges the Danish Radio and the Danish Ministry of Culture to take any possible measure in order to save this orchestra. We sincerely hope that the orchestra will still be active when our Award Ceremony takes place in Ankara on 28 March 2015, hosted by the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra. »