At the invitation of the Festival Next Generation, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards will have its annual General Assembly, February 12-15, at one of Europe’s Leading Wellbeing & Medical Health Resorts, the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.
Yury Revich (r.), Sabine Weyer and ICMA President Remy Franck
(c) ICMA/Nicole Junio
Together with the Luxembourgish pianist Sabine Weyer, ICMA Artist of the Year 2015, Yury Revich, gave a stunning recital at Ettelbrucks’ Cape in Luxembourg, on February 3. The musicians began their demanding program with a passionate reading of Robert Schumann’s Violin Sonata op. 105, followed by a full-bodied Richard Strauss Sonata. A glittering account of…
Alexander Liebreich
(c) Bruno Fidrych
Alexander Liebreich, seit 2012 und jetzt bis 2019 verlängerter Chefdirigent und Künstlerischer Leiter des Nationalen Sinfonieorchester des Polnischen Rundfunks (NOSPR) in Katowice, hat jetzt erste Informationen zu der Edition 2016 des von ihm geleiteten Festivals Kultura Natura bekannt gegeben. Es steht unter dem Motto Spiritualität und findet vom 13.-22. Mai statt.
The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced today the Awards for 2016. Soprano Dame Felicity Lott is honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Composer, trombonist and conductor Christian Lindberg is Artist of the Year, cellist Pablo Ferrandez Young Artist of the Year. For the first time the new Discovery Award for musicians…
International Classical Music Awards ICMA 2016 SPECIAL AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Dame Felicity Lott Dame Felicity Lott is one of those rare singers who, on stage, create an immediate bond with the audience: her radiant personality and stage presence are rarely equalled. From intelligent and moving song performances to the rare subtlety and human depth…
Kursaal, San Sebastian
(c) Remy Franck
Am 20. Januar wird in der baskischen Küstenstadt San Sebastian das Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2016 nicht eingeläutet, sondern eingetrommelt. Am Tag des Heiligen Sebastian, dem Namensgeber der Stadt, treffen sich traditionsgemäß Tausende von Trommlern ab Mitternacht in der Altstadt.
With Filippo Gorini winning the International Beethoven Competition in Bonn, another scholarship student of the International Music Academy Liechtenstein has added his success to the impressive list of winners among the Academy’s students in 2015.
The new Katowice Concert Hall
(c) Sammy Hart
Katowice in southern Poland has been awarded the status of UNESCO City of Music. The Silesian city boasts such prestigious ensembles as the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with its recently-opened concert hall, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Silesian Quartet, and the Camerata Silesia Choir. Katowice is also the venue of thirty music festivals. It will…
The ICMA Jury is progressing in the voting for the Audio and Video Awards 2016. Today we are able to publish the Finalists, in other words the three productions of which one will be the winner.
