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In several rounds, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the releases competing in the finals for the awards 2019. « Our initial list with a total of 319 nominations comprised many very good as well as outstanding recordings. In the course of several rounds, the list is now reduced to three releases per category, the releases that are our finalists for 2019 », Jury President Remy Franck said Read More →

The ICMA nomination list for 2019 is available. To get the list, just click on our Nominations button which will lead you to lists sorted by labels or categories.For the 2019 awards the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has nominated 319 audio and video productions (321 in 2017, 357 in 2018) from 107 labels (119 in 2017, 120 in 2018). Read More →

Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck, ICMA Artist of the Year 2018, has extended his contract as Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphon for two years, to run through the 2021-22 season, when the orchestra will celebrate its 125th, birthday as well as the 50th anniversary of the opening of Heinz Hall. Honeck became music director in 2008.

Der Pianist Robert Neumann, ‘Discovery Award 2017’-Preisträger der ICMA (International Classical Music Awards) ist zum ‘SWR2 New Talent’ gewählt worden. Drei Jahre lang wird der 17-Jährige mit Sendungen im Kulturprogramm SWR2, bei Konzerten und Festivals gefördert. Den Hörerinnen und Hörern stellt er sich erstmals in der Sendung ‘SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik’ am 13. September 2018 vor. Read More →

ICMA Jury member Bernadette Beyne passed away last Sunday, 29 July, at the age of 69. Founder, in 1993, of the Belgian music magazine Crescendo, together with Michelle Debra, Bernadette Beyne was editor in chief of the magazine. Read More →

Soprano Elsa Dreisig, ICMA Young Artists of the Year 2017, has signed an exclusive recording contract with Erato, with her debut album to be released in October 2018. Read More →

The winner of this year’s IMCA Discovery Award, which the Jury organizes in collaboration with the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, Chinese flutist Yuan Yu, recently played two concerts in Asia. The first recital took place at the Yamaha Hall in Ginza, Tokyo, and a few days later he performed another recital in this native Beijing. Read More →