The Westdeutsche Sinfonia, a hand-picked best-of ensemble of the major North Rhine-Westphalian orchestras founded in 1987 and directed by Dirk Joeres, and the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) have agreed to a collaboration, under which the Westdeutsche Sinfonia will stage an annual concert featuring one of the young artists honored by the ICMA. The first concert will take place on April 21, 2024, as part of the KlassikSonntag series in Leverkusen. The soloist will be Julian Kainrath, Discovery Award winner 2022. Read More →

By mid-December 2022 over a quarter of a million people had seen the live recording of the ICMA Gala Concert at the Philharmonie in Luxembourg, with winners of the International Classical Music Awards 2022 and the Luxembourg Philharmonic conducted by Adam Fischer. The video is still available in Deutsche Welle’s YouTube channel and has now reached the fabulous number of over 500.000 viewers, a plus of 250.000 in three months. Read More →

During the Award Ceremony of the International Classical Music Awards on 21 April in Wroclaw three ensembles from the National Forum of Music will enrich the Award presentation, showing how rightly NFM deserves the Special Achievement Award it has been awarded by the ICMA Jury. Read More →

The Palau de la Música de València and the International Classical Music Awards have announced that the annual ICMA Awards Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place on April 12, 2024 at the Palau de la Música València, with the Orquesta de València conducted by its artistic and musical director Alexander Liebreich. The event will bring together the outstanding award winners and representatives of the international music industry in one of the most prestigious cultural venues in Europe. Read More →

South African-born filmmaker Christopher Nupen has died at the age of 88. After moving to Britain he became famous for his sensitive music documentaries. He won an ICMA prize in the Documentary category in 2011 and 2016. Read More →

ICMA and NFM National Forum of Music Wrocław present a spectacular Award Ceremony Gala on 21 April. The rich and varied program for this Gala Celebration conducted by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero will feature winners of this year’s laureate panel, accompanied by the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic. Read More →

The young Polish organist Karol Mossakowski (32), ICMA Award winner 2023, has been named titular of the Cavaillé-Coll grand organ at Saint-Sulpice in Paris, alongside Sophie-Véronique Choplin. Daniel Roth, organist of this organ since 1985, will continue to play regularly as titular emeritus. Read More →

The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) welcomes the Vienna based ‘radio klassik Stephansdom’ as Jury member. ‘radio klassik Stephansdom’ is the Austrian classical music station of the music city of Vienna. It broadcasts classical music around the clock from the heart of Vienna. The radio station is represented in the Jury by Ursula Magnes, head of the music department. Read More →

By mid-December 2022 over a quarter of a million people had seen the live recording of the ICMA Gala Concert at the Philharmonie in Luxembourg, with winners of the International Classical Music Awards 2022 and the Luxembourg Philharmonic conducted by Adam Fischer. The video is still available in Deutsche Welle’s YouTube channel and has now reached the fabulous number of 300.000 viewers. Read More →