Pianist Menahem Pressler died Saturday in London at the age of 99. Pressler was born into a Jewish family in Magdeburg in late December 1923. The Presslers managed to escape the Nazis to Palestine in 1938. In 1946, he won the Debussy Competition in San Francisco. In the late 1940s, he settled permanently in America and changed his first name from Max to Menahem. Read More →

ICMA Jury member Juan Lucas from the Spanish music magazine Scherzo  has written the libretto for Die Judith von Shimoda, an opera by Fabián Panisello for eight singers, chamber choir, ensemble, electronics and multimedia which will have its premiere on 17 August at the Bregenz Festival, and will then go to Vienna and to Madrid. Read More →

The video of the ICMA Gala Concert played by the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and featuring  many winning artists from the 2022 panel is highly successful on the YouTube channel of Deutsche Welle. More than 50.000 people saw it  in less than a week, and the number is continuously growing.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUGuhH_XUo Read More →

This year’s ICMA Award Ceremony was followed in the evening by the Gala Concert in the sold-out Great Hall of the Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music (NFM) in Wroclaw, Poland. Both events represented the highly deserved conclusion for musical performances in the classical sector reviewed during the past year, which were accompanied and judged by the members of the ICMA Jury. Uwe Krusch shares his impressions of the concert. Read More →

From the list of their 16 winning audio and video productions, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the overall winner of the Recording of the Year Award. The award goes to the Video Opera category. Read More →

ICMA and the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland, present a spectacular Award Ceremony Gala tonight, Friday 21 April at 19:00. The concert will be available for free to wider audiences by livestream on Deutsche Welle’s YouTube Channel. Read More →

ICMA and the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland, present a spectacular Award Ceremony Gala on Friday 21 April. The concert will be available for free to wider audiences by livestream on Deutsche Welle’s YouTube Channel, where the ICMA Gala 2002 at the Philharmonie in Luxembourg experiences an ongoing success with, by now, 650.000 viewers. Here is the link to the live streaming of next Friday, 21 April 2023: https://youtube.com/live/UeUGuhH_XUo Read More →

The ICMA Gala Concert taking place at the NFM National Forum of Music Wrocław on 21 April is sold out, an NFM spokesperson said. This means that the artists playing with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic conducted by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero will face an audience of 1800, plus the worldwide audience of the planned video live streaming and radio broadcast. Read More →

Since e few days the new Internet radio station for classical music, Opus 100,7, is online and can be listened to via the website www.opus.radio. Opus 100,7 is an initiative of the public broadcaster that already operates Radio 100,7. Read More →