Liechtenstein bank launches new award for young musicians

  • 29/10/2024

VP Bank and the Music Academy in Liechtenstein have launched a new award: the VP Bank Opus Award, which will be presented for the first time on November 14, 2024. This innovative award is aimed at young musicians who have already achieved great success at an early stage. The press release states: « The VP Bank Opus Award sets a new milestone in the promotion of musical talent, taking into account not only artistic ability but also the diverse challenges of the modern music world. » Read More →

ICMA winner Can Çakmur inaugurated the renovated Liszt grand piano in Weimar

  • 23/10/2024
ICMA winner Can Çakmur inaugurated the renovated Liszt grand piano in Weimar

Can Çakmur at the renovated Liszt Grand in Weimar
(c): Henry Sowinski

The Bechstein grand piano by Franz Liszt, which is located in the Liszt House in Weimar, is playable again. The Klassik Stiftung Weimar, together with the C. Bechstein company and the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar, celebrated the renovation of the grand piano from 1881 with a festive matinée in the Liszt House yesterday. Read More →

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 →

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