The International Classical Music Awards ICMA today announced the nominations for their Awards 2023, celebrating the best musicians and recordings. This year’s nominations include many renowned soloists, ensembles, conductors and orchestras as well as a lot of young musicians, many of them being first-nominees. A total of 391 audio and video productions (+14) from 117 labels have been nominated. To see the list, just click on our Nominations button, which will lead you to lists sorted by labels or categories. Read More →

Solistes Européens Luxembourg and pianist Jean Muller will premiere the piano concerto Deconstructing Love by Ivan Boumans, winner of the 2020/21 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) Composer Award, at the Luxembourg Philharmonie on September 26. Read More →

The German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt died yesterday, after being diagnosed with cancer in 2021. He was 51 years old. He was an ICMA winner 2022 in the category Solo Instrument. Read More →

Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández, ICMA Young Artist of the Year 2016, has chosen none other than Anne-Sophie Mutter as his partner for his new album on the Sony Classical label, scheduled for release on November 4. For years, the German violinist and Ferrández have enjoyed a solid and fruitful artistic collaboration. Mutter is the ideal artist, » says Pablo Ferrández. Read More →

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Vaduz Classic Festival, the world premiere of the Cantata for Prince Alois I of Liechtenstein KV Anh. 242, attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, will be heard on August 28, 2022. Read More →

The 2022 International Classical Music Awards Gala will be broadcast on Saturday, August 6 in the German ARD Radio Festival. The ARD Radio Festival runs from July 9 to September 16 and includes concerts broadcast simultaneously by all ARD culture and music stations, beginning at 8 p.m. This year, the program is hosted by MDR. Read More →

This August sees the launch of a multi-year project from Sydney Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with Spanish pianist Javier Perianes. Beginning with Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, Perianes, Artist of the Year at the 2019 International Classical Music Awards, will perform all five of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos across a multi-season engagement. Read More →

The video of the ICMA Gala Concert played by the Luxembourg Philharmonic and Orchestre Royal de l’Opéra de Versailles with many winning artists from the 2022 panel continues to be successful on the YouTube channel of Deutsche Welle. More than 50.000 people saw it by now, and the number is continuously growing. Read More →

In these sad times of war in the middle of Europe, three young musician-friends, violinist Alexey Semenenko from Ukraine, cellist Alexey Stadler from Russia and German pianist Robert Neumann will perform on May 9 at 8:00 p.m. in the radio studio of SWR in Stuttgart to play works of Russian and Ukrainian composers.  The SWR Evening Concert will be covered by all ARD cultural radios, with SWR2, NDR Kultur, hr2, MDR Klassik, SR2 & rbbKultur broadcasting live.