Alessandro Marangoni
(c) Daniele Cruciani
This year, the jury of International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) honours Italian pianist Alessandro Marangoni with a special prize for this ponderous recording venture, which has come to an end and which Naxos has published in a single boxed set. In the ICMA Gala concert in Wroclaw, Marangoni will play Chopin’s Andante spianato et Grande…
Hans Abrahamsen
(c) Lars Skaaning
Since he wrote Winternacht in 1978, the reference to snow has gradually become a constant in the music of Hans Abrahamsen (Copenhagen, *1952). “It captures me”, he says. “What fascinates me about snow is its whiteness, as well as the idea that it can turn to ice”. But Abrahamsen is also very aware of “the…
Since e few days the new Internet radio station for classical music, Opus 100,7, is online and can be listened to via the website www.opus.radio. Opus 100,7 is an initiative of the public broadcaster that already operates Radio 100,7.
Marc-André Teruel
Last January, the jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced the launch of a Classeek Award to promote an outstanding young musician among the finalists of the Classeek Ambassador Program, a platform for emerging artists whose main initiative is an annual program to discover, support and promote promising young classical musicians. Marc-André Teruel,…
Westdeutsche Sinfonia
(c) Horst A. Scholz
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…
Ermonela Jaho
@Fadil Berisha
One of the best opera singers today, Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho was named Artist of the Year 2023 by the International Classical Music Awards jury. A great opportunity to have an ample discussion with a tremendous artist about art, music, sacrifices, the hard work you need to put in constantly, and best of all about…
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…
Vilde Frang
(c) Marco Borggreve
Vilde Frang has been one of the best-known violinists for at least a decade and a half. Her list of awards and accolades is already long, the most recent being the ICMA Prize for her recording of Beethoven’s and Stravinsky’s Violin Concertos. Gábor Mesterházi from ICMA Jury member Papageno, Budapest, made the following interview with…
NFM Wroclaw
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.
