Finnish Conductor Leif Segerstam dies at 80

  • 09/10/2024
Finnish Conductor Leif Segerstam dies at 80

Leif Segerstam (c) Ingo Höhn

Finnish conductor and composer Leif Segerstam has died aged 80, Finnish media reported today. After studies in violin, piano, composition and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki 1952-63 he continued with post-graduate studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. His initial career as a conductor started with positions in the opera houses of Helsinki, Stockholm, and West Berlin, and guest appearances included the Met, La Scala, Covent Garden, Teatro Colon and the opera houses of Cologne, Hamburg and Munich, Geneva and the Salzburg Festival. Read More →

Miles Walter wins position in the Classeek Ambassador Program

  • 26/09/2024
Miles Walter wins position in the Classeek Ambassador Program

Miles Walter

American composer Miles Walter (*1994) is the Winner of an Open Application position to the Classeek Ambassador Program, Season 2024-2025. He is currently based in London where he is studying with George Benjamin. He is one of the five composers selected for this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale College Musica. He is preparing for his world-première concert at the Venice Biennale. Read More →

DYNAMIKfest Salzburg cooperates with Classeek

  • 23/09/2024

This year’s DYNAMIKfest Salzburg (6-12 October) partners with the Swiss Classeek’s Ambassador Programme to present three musicians for their debut in Salzburg, including violinist and composer Elise Bertrand, violist Paul Zientara, and cellist Jeein You. Read More →

Leonhard Baumgartner wins Eurovision Young Musicians 2024

  • 18/08/2024
Leonhard Baumgartner wins Eurovision Young Musicians 2024

Leonhard Baumgartner
(c) Andrej Grilc

Austrian violinist Leonhard Baumgartner won the Eurovision Young Musicians 2024 competition on Saturday evening in the northern Norwegian town of Bodø. He played an abbreviated version of Henri Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5. Second place went to the Swede Hugo Svedberg, followed by Fabian Egger from Germany. Read More →

Soprano Jodie Devos died at the young age of 35

  • 16/06/2024
Soprano Jodie Devos died at the young age of 35

Jodie Devos

Terrible news: Belgian soprano Jodie Devos died, surrounded by family and friends, on June 16, 2024 in Paris at the age of 35, following a bout of breast cancer that forced her to cancel several recent engagements. In 2015, she was Young Artist of the Year of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). Read More →

Bruno Monsaingeon received his ICMA trophy

  • 04/05/2024
Bruno Monsaingeon received his ICMA trophy

Bruno Monsaingeon & Remy Franck

Due to unforeseen circumstances, film director Bruno Monsaingeon was not able to attend the ICMA Award Ceremony in Valencia on 12 April. Now, ICMA President Remy Franck presented the trophy to the winner at his home in Montrouge. Read More →

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