The National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, NFM, announces the Witold Lutoslawski World Days, a new, special initiative commemorating the great Polish composer. Between the anniversaries of the artist’s birth and death, as part of an international project run every three years, concerts will be held during which various works by Lutoslawski will be performed. Read More →

Marc-André Teruel, French-Austrian double bass player, is the first recipient of the new ICMA Classeek Award, established in collaboration between the International Classical Music Awards ICMA and young artist platform Classeek. He will receive his trophy during the ICMA Award Ceremony in Wroclaw, Poland on 21 April. Read More →

Today the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced the winners of 26 awards for the 2023 edition. Jury President Remy Franck says: « Firmly established as the unrivalled badges of excellence for the classical music sector, the ICMA awards were selected from a nomination list comprising 391 productions and a wide range of artists and labels. The winner list comprises many renowned as well as lesser-known and young musicians and no less than 14 labels! Read More →

The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) will begin organizing a new award, the ICMA Classeek Award, presented for the first time in 2023, when the ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala Concert take place at the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland. This new category has been created in close collaboration with Classeek, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Read More →

Over a quarter of a million people have seen the live recording of the ICMA Gala Concert at the Philharmonie in Luxembourg, with winners of the International Classical Music Awards 2022 and the Luxembourg Philharmonic conducted by Adam Fischer. Among the many comments from all over the world in Deutsche Welle’s YouTube channel, a majority says that this was « a wonderful » or « an amazing concert!!! » Read More →

In three rounds, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the releases competing in the finals for the awards 2022. The initial list with a total of 391 nominations has been reduced to three releases per category, the finalists for 2023. The winner is chosen from a list of three finalists. Read More →

Due to the sanitary situation in 2021 and the postponement of the ICMA Award Ceremony from April to June, Ensemble Diderot was not able to receive the trophy for their winning release The Berlin Album in the Baroque Instrumental category. One and a half year later, the ensemble’s Johannes Pramsohler was able to join the ICMA Board members in Paris, where he was presented the trophy for this beautiful Audax release of which the Jury said: 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 150.000 people saw it by now, and the number is continuously growing. Read More →

Pianist Frank Dupree releases his third Kapustin album in February on the Capriccio label, this time with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dominik Beykirch. Read More →