German label ‘audite’, ICMA Label of the Year 2013, is now offering High Resolution Downloads on its website. The necessary extensive technical modification of the website is finished and a first selection of productions is available online. All new releases are being offered as High Resolution Downloads right from the release date. The download offer for the back catalogue will steadily increase until the whole ‘audite’ catalogue is available. Read More →

French viola player Adrien Boisseau will replace his colleague from the renowned Ebène Quartet on Friday 25 April during a concert at the Deauville Easter Festival. In the all-Mozart program he will meet ICMA Young Artist of the Year 2012 David Kadouch in the Concerto n°13 K.415, for piano and strings.

Swiss conductor and ICMA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Charles Dutoit will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra on its upcoming tour to Japan and China, May 1-10, stepping in for Lorin Maazel who has to interrupt his activities until the third week of May due to an accident. Read More →

The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) organized their Award Ceremony and Gala Concert yesterday at the Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, hosted by the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. The Award Ceremony was presented by ICMA’s President Remy Franck, and awards were given to such artists as Charles Dutoit, Krzysztof Penderecki, Andreas Staier, Adrien Boisseau, Joseph Moog, Andrea Bacchetti, Daniel Hope, Holger Schröter-Seebeck and Signum Quartet. After the Award Ceremony, the Gala concert took place at the Philharmonic Hall, which was sold out since weeks. Read More →

The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) organize their Award Ceremony and Gala Concert today at 5:00 p.m. at the Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, hosted by the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. The Award Ceremony will be attended by numerous personalities from the world’s musical life, composer Krzysztof Penderecki, conductors Charles Dutoit, José Maria Florencio and Holger Schröter-Seebeck, label representatives from Audite, BIS, Dux, Melodiya, Glossa, eaSonus, Alia Vox and of course by the ICMA winners 2014. After the Award Ceremony, a Gala concert takes place at the Philharmonic Hall, which is sold out since weeks. Read More →

Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit was conducting Ravel’s ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ when an earthquake hit the area. This was reported by the Los Angeles Times: « Six minutes into the performance of Ravel’s complete « Daphnis and Chloé, » at 9:09 p.m., a 5.1-magnitude earthquake centered near La Habra struck Walt Disney Concert Hall, one of the largest temblors since the hall’s 2003 opening. The hall rocked and rolled for several seconds — like an airplane experiencing turbulence — and the place vibrated for more than a minute. Although the orchestra seemed a bit rattled at first and the audience gasped, the unflappable veteran Charles Dutoit kept on conducting, never breaking stride, and the performance continued pretty much unimpeded. (…) « I work a lot in Japan, so we have this all the time, » Dutoit said, while admitting that « it was hard to keep the concentration of the orchestra. »

ICMA Jury Member Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg) has been awarded the Jury Prize at Luxembourg’s first Award for Investigative Journalism, organized by the Association luxembourgeoise des Journalistes (ALJ). The Award was presented to Jean-Claude Franck, Editor in chief of Luxembourg’s successful Public Radio. Read More →