Mazzamuto-Interview is online
The interview with Young Artist of the Year Alessandro Mazzamuto is now online: http://www.icma-info.com/alessandro-mazzamuto-without-emotion-music-ceases-to-exist/
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Alessandro Mazzamuto: Without emotion, music ceases to exist
Interview by Stephen Hastings (Musica) Alessandro Mazzamuto is ICMA’s Young Artist of the Year 2013 in the instrumental category. He was born in Catania in 1988 and graduated from the Music Institute Vincenzo Bellini in Catania, under the guidance of Epifanio Comis, with honors and honorable mention. Finalist at the 58th edition of the prestigious…
ICMA HOST PERFORMED MAHLER’S EIGHT SYMPHONY
Bilkent Symphony Orchestra of Ankara, which will host the ICMA Award ceremony and Gala concert on 28 March, 2015, has performed the Ankara premiere of Mahler’s 8th Symphony. The performance on 30 April was the closing concert of the 30th Ankara International Music Festival. The Bilkent Symphony, conducted by music director Isin Metin shared the…
Ciccolini-Interview is online
The interview with Lifetime Achievement winner Aldo Ciccolini is now online: Aldo Ciccolini: And then there is this endless passion for music …
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Aldo Ciccolini: « And then there is this endless passion for music… »
The ICMA jury gave the Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 to Aldo Ciccolini. The Jury says: « A pianistic legend in his own lifetime, Aldo Ciccolini has been performing all over the world for more than seventy years now. His numerous recordings, some of which offer a generous overview of a composer’s works, have gained ever-increasing critical…
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Dmitrij Kitajenko: « Continuously dig deeper in the music »
For his recording of Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird (in the Melodiya box Les Ballets Russes) Dmitrij Kitajenko won the ICMA prize in the category ‘Historical Recording’. Backstage, Radio Orpheus’ Roman Berchenko made the following interview with Maestro Kitajenko.
Audite – Label of the year 2013
Audite, ‘Label of the year 2013’ at the International Classical Music Awards, has been established 40 years ago in Germany and has developed since as a major classical label in Europe. In this interview made by ResMusica, Ludger Böckenhoff, General Manager of Audite, tells more about its history and its projects.
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ICMA 2013: A TROPHY FOR VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV
In the category Historical Recordings, Russian label Melodiya won an Award for ‘Les Ballets Russes’ (cat. 1001990) with Stravinsky’s The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, played by Moscow Philharmonic, Moscow State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra under conductors Dmitrij Kitajenko, Pierre Boulez and Vladimir Fedoseyev. While at the Award Ceremony…
Alessandro Mazzamuto (r.) and Epifanio Comis
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Martha Argerich Invites Young Artist Alessandro Mazzamuto
Martha Argerich has invited ICMA’s ‘Young Artist of the Year’ Alessandro Mazzamuto to perform during her annual Lugano Project. On 21 June Alessandro will play Clementi’s Sonata op. 40/2, Rachmaninov’s ‘5 Morceaux de fantaisie’ op. 3 and Liszt’s Paraphrases about Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Evangelic Church in Lugano.
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