Today, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced the winners of the awards for the 2025 edition. Jury President Remy Franck says: « Our awards were chosen from a nomination list comprising 374 releases and a wide range of artists and labels. The winner list comprises many renowned as well as young musicians and no less than 17 international labels!
We include again the ICMA Classeek Award which is organized in collaboration with the digital platform Classeek and continue our long-lasting cooperation with the International Music Academy Liechtenstein, so that together with the Young Artist Award, we can promote three young and highly promising talents. Our awards are recognitions of excellence in musical performance. They can provide – and have already provided, as many of our previous winners can acknowledge – many benefits for the winners, artists as well as labels, enhancing reputation and increasing personal motivation. We have assurance that the full benefit of our awards will be felt by all our winners, in a musical environment in which revenue from streaming services, for example, brings anything but real rewarding. »
Violinist Gidon Kremer wins the Lifetime Achievement Award. Conductor Leonardo García Alarcón is Artist of the Year. Cellist Benjamin Kruithof is Young Artist of the Year and pianist Can Saraç is the winner of the Discovery Award. Christoph Ehrenfellner wins the Composer Award. BR Klassik is Label of the Year. The ICMA-Classeek Award goes to cellist Ettore Pagano. Special Achievement Awards are granted to conductor Adam Fischer, to pianist Oliver Triendl and to the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. In the audio and video categories, 17 productions have been awarded, with artists such as Vilde Frang, Unsuk Chin, Anna Gourari, Marin Alsop, Andreas Scholl, Samuel Hasselhorn and many more.
The winners receive the ICMA trophies during the annual Award Ceremony that will take place at the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, on 19 March 2025. This evening will also include a Gala Concert with the participation of several of the winners and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker conducted by Adam Fischer.
The winner list can be accessed via the Winners button.
