The Jury of the Mahler-Record Prize in Toblach (South Tyrol) has given one of the prizes for 2015 to a CD featuring Mahlers Fourth Symphony in the chamber version of Erwin Stein, recorded for Cavi by Christiane Oelze and the Festival Ensemble Spannungen composed among others by Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff. The Jury with Attila Csampai, President, Lothar Brandt, Remy Franck, Thomas Schulz and Götz Thieme awarded this “clear-cut and incisive performance” a Special Award, concluding that “one fully senses here the subversive subtext of this ambiguous symphony”. Read More →

Adrien Boisseau, ICMA’s Young Artist Of The Year 2014, has published his debut CD with the German label Oehms Classics (OC 1819). Together with pianist Gaspard Dehaene French viola player performs an entire Schumann program with Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 73, Märchenbilder, (Fairy Tale Pictures), Op. 113, Drei Romanzen, (Three Romances), Op. 94, Märchenerzählungen, (Fairy Tales), Op. 132, Myrthen (Myrtles), Op. 25 & Liederkreis, Op. 39
At the age of 23, Adrien Boisseau became the youngest member of the renowned Quatuor Ebène. Beginning in January 2015, he replaced Mathieu Herzog, who wishes to devote himself more to conducting.

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, 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.

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 →

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 →