The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) organized their Award Ceremony and Gala Concert yesterday, 28 March at the Bilkent Concert Hall in Ankara, hosted by the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra conducted by Isin Metin. The Award Ceremony was presented by ICMA’s President Remy Franck, and awards were given to such artists as Dmitrij Kitajenko, Christian Tetzlaff, YuryRevich, Jodie Devos, Evgeny Koroliov, Xiao-Mei Zhu, Adam Fischer, Wu Wei, John Holloway, the Seoul Philharmonic, the Bilkent Symphony, BIS CEO Robert von Bahr and many more. Read More →

The first group of winners and ICMA Jury members have arrived today in Ankara, where the rehearsals for the Gala Concert with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra will start tomorrow. Among the first musicians to arrive were Young Artists of the Year Jodie Devos and Yury Revich as well as conductor Alexander Liebreich and sheng player Wu Wei. Read More →

Andante, Turkey’s only classical music magazine and an ICMA jury member since 2012 has launched a new internet portal last week. One of the most important aspects of this new portal is that the readers of the magazine will be able to read the printed copy and the supplements in e-mag format after a few simple steps. The other important aspect of the new portal is the arrival of full English pages. The button  »Andante in English’’ is leading to many classical music news and reviews, both national and international. www.andante.com.tr

At a press conference in Moscow, Irina Gerasimova, General Manager and Artistic Director of the Russian State TV and Radio Music Centre, Orpheus, presented the multimedia project Revival Of The Musical Heritage Of Russia operated in collaboration with the company E.ON Russia. The first two realizations are the restoration of the only lithographic copy of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov’s Textbook on Harmony and the recording on CD of Anton Arensky’s rare opera Raphael. Read More →

Am Donnerstag, dem 26. Februar 2015 um 19.50 Uhr sendet das Fernsehen ORF III in der Sendung ‘Kultur Heute’ einen Bericht von Ani Gülgün-Mayr über ‘Young Artist of the Year 2015’ Yury Revich. Der 23-jährige russische Geiger wurde bei den ‘International Classical Music Awards’ für sein zuletzt eingespieltes Album « Mozart & Sarasate » und seine Auftritte als Solist in den weltweit prestigereichsten Konzertsälen prämiert.

The ICMA Gala Concert on March 28 in the magnificent Bilkent Hall in Ankara, Turkey, will be conducted by Isin Metin. He is conducting all the pieces with soloists. Three guest conductors, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Adam Fischer and Alexander Liebreich will also be part of the program. Read More →