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 →

The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) organized their Award Ceremony and Gala Concert yesterday, 28 March at the Bilkent Concert Hall in Ankara, hosted by the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra conducted by Isin Metin. The Award Ceremony was presented by ICMA’s President Remy Franck, and awards were given to such artists as Dmitrij Kitajenko, Christian Tetzlaff, YuryRevich, Jodie Devos, Evgeny Koroliov, Xiao-Mei Zhu, Adam Fischer, Wu Wei, John Holloway, the Seoul Philharmonic, the Bilkent Symphony, BIS CEO Robert von Bahr and many more. Read More →

The first group of winners and ICMA Jury members have arrived today in Ankara, where the rehearsals for the Gala Concert with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra will start tomorrow. Among the first musicians to arrive were Young Artists of the Year Jodie Devos and Yury Revich as well as conductor Alexander Liebreich and sheng player Wu Wei. Read More →