Applications for enCORE Classical 2024 in Budapest, Hungary from the 26th to the 30th of June are now open until May 20th, 2024.
Just a few days after the successful ICMA Gala in Valencia, ICMA President Remy Franck was at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf for a meeting with the Intendant Michael Becker.
This April FOCUS on You’ event will focus on how personal stories can support a presentation and how musicians can use storytelling.
Maxim Rysanov has recorded Dmitri Shostakovich’s last work, the Viola Sonata, for Hungaroton. In connection with the recording, which will be released at the end of April, we spoke to the violist about Shostakovich, chamber music and the war in Ukraine.
ICMA Special Achievement Award winner Sylvain Cambreling has dedicated 50 years to symphonic music and opera.
Anastassia Boutsko from ICMA Jury member Deutsche Welle has made an interview with Serbian violinist Lana Zorjan, winner of the 2024 Discovery Award.
I usually refrain from writing negative reviews, but sometimes I need to voice my opinion about a performance that had promised to be thrilling, but turned out to be what my ears would consider unsatisfactory.
The Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich (JCOM) is busy resurrecting the profile and music of composer Józef Koffler.
“G for Gustav, F for Frankreich, and K for Karajan!” instructed maestro Alain Altinoglu as he conducted a ‘symphonic mob’ rehearsal in the middle of a lovely park in Bad Kissingen, a spa town in Bavaria.
“I have a memory from the time before I was born,” writes Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst. That memory was filled with songs by Scarlatti and Purcell.
A curiously forgotten and fairly prolific Baroque composer, Johann David Heinichen, was a contemporary of Bach; and like him, arose from St. Thomas Church in Leipzig.
Violinist Antje Weithaas and pianist Dénes Várjon each ideally combine the highest degree of enthusiasm and technical refinement.
On January 27th, 2023, Sony releases the second album of the Italo-Ukrainian violinist Anastasiya Petryshak.
The Westdeutsche Sinfonie in Leverkusen and the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) successfully launched their project with young ICMA prizewinners.
The 2024 edition of the biennial George Enescu International Competition will take place from August 31 to September 27.
Elisabeth Leonskaja is coming to Concerto Budapest in April to perform two concerts and hold a free master class.
The 2024 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) were presented in Valencia on 12 April.
Tonhalle Düsseldorf and the International Classical Music Awards announce that the annual ICMA Award Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place on 19 March.
President of the Republic Tamás Sulyok awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary to pianist Muza Rubackyte, President of the Lithuanian Franz Liszt Society, in Vilnius.
Renaud Capuçon is Artist of the Year 2024 of the International Classical Music Awards. Ariadna Ene-Iliescu made an interview with him.
Classeek, the support platform for young classical musicians, is constantly expanding. Its media catalog is now available on new platforms.
Valentin Magyar, young Hungarian pianist, has made his first recording of Rachmaninov’s works, Sentimental Moments, on the Hungaroton label. ICMA President Remy Franck reviewed the recording.
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