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Nikola Meeuwsen, First Prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2025
In the early hours of 1 June 2025, Dutch pianist Nikola Meeuwsen was awarded First Prize in the 2025 edition of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, dedicated this year to the ...
The Swedish Radio Choir Celebrates Alfred Schnittke
It was perhaps not surprising that the Swedish Radio Choir's performance transcended the technical and physical demands of the piece, which allowed Schnittke’s musical and spiritual message to reach its ...
A trip to Sweden with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Torleif Thedéen and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra should be commended for performing this rarely-performed work by a major composer. Of the two major professional orchestras in Helsinki, the artistic profile of ...
Violinist Dmytro Udovychenko, First Prize of the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition
The Ukrainian violinist Dmytro Udovychenko, First Prize of this high-level 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition, answered some of our questions related to his experience at the Competition and to his art. ResMusica ...All-English night at the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Under Pitkänen's committed leadership, this evening's performance of Elgar's Enigma Variations was a refreshing reminder that this piece is much more than an often-programmed warhorse to be taken for granted. Certain ...
World Premiere of Tomi Räisänen’s Organ Concerto
Angela Metzger deserves to join the select group of organists who tour internationally as soloist with orchestra. A space for a concert organ was originally designed for the main concert hall ...
Taehan Kim, the young winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition
On 3 June 2023, Taehan Kim won the First Prize of the "Voice" edition of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition. The baritone singer, who was the youngest of the finalists, ...ICMA Jury nominates 377 releases for the 2022 Awards
The International Classical Music Awards ICMA today announced the nominations for their Awards 2022, celebrating the best musicians and recordings. This year’s nominations include many renowned soloists, ensembles, conductors and ...
The Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein, an ambitious orchestra
The Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein (SOL) is hosting this year’s International Classical Music Awards Gala in Vaduz. The president of the orchestra’s foundation board, Dr. Ernst Walch, and the head of the ...
Ivan Boumans, composer neo-tonalist
Ivan Boumans, winner of this year’s ICMA Composer Award is a very versatile musician. Besides composing, he is also a passionate teacher and conductor. His newest orchestral work, Organic Beat, ...
Ermonela Jaho, intensity of expression
Ermonela Jaho is the winner of the ICMA 2021 award in the « Vocal Music » category with the album « Anima rara », published by Opera Rara and dedicated to the repertoire of ...
Johannes Pramsohler, ICMA laureate, at the head of the Audax label
This year, Johannes Pramsohler and his Ensemble Diderot are winners of the International Classical Music Awards in the category "Baroque instrumental". On this occasion, we talked to the violinist about ...
The chief conductor Ivan Repušić, ICMA winner with Kuljerics Requiem: « It was very emotional »
The CD with the performances of the Croatian Glagolitic Requiem by Igor Kuljeric and the Hymn to Freedom by Jakov Gotovac, released by BR Klassik, won the prestigious International Classical ...
ICMA winner the pianist Josu de Solaun: « During this period any good news has a special meaning »
Among the winners of the International Classical Music Awards 2021 is the CD Fantasque produced by Audite and played by the violinist Franziska Pietsch and the pianist Josu de Solaun. ...
Boian Videnoff, the conductor who digitalises sheet music
Conductor Boian Videnoff is the Artistic and General Director of the Mannheimer Philharmoniker and the founder of the start-up Enote, a new sheet music app. To better understand what is ...ICMA Jury nominates 365 releases for the 2021 Awards
The ICMA nomination list for 2021 is available. For the 2021 awards the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has nominated 365 audio and video productions from 122 ...
Joseph Moog, a pianist fascinated by Franz Liszt
Joseph Moog, a young pianist but already a double winner of the International Classical Music Awards, recently released a disc devoted entirely to the work of Franz Liszt. On this ...
Raphaela Gromes on the discovery of a Strauss score
Raphaela Gromes and Julian Riem have recently released a very special disc devoted to Richard Strauss' compositions, including the premiere recording for the first version of his Cello Sonata. On this ...
From Alan Walker, A Refined, Controlled, Artistocratic Chopin
This "Chopin" proves overall to be overwhelming, amazing, even insolent, insofar as it has everything possible in it, allowing us to learn all about the man, his time, and his work. ...
Gerald Finley sings Lieberson’s heartbreaking Songs of Love and Sorrow
Peter Lieberson's Songs of Love and Sorrow are not only emotionally direct, sincere, and unpretentious, but also heartbreakingly effective. The American composer Peter Lieberson composed the Songs of Love and Sorrow in difficult circumstances. He ...
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Pettersson and Sibelius with the Tampere Philharmonic
Under Rouvali's direction, Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 7 felt like a connected series of very long phrases, each executed with a single breath. In the past half-decade or so, the star of the ...
ICMA 2020: The finalists
In three rounds, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the releases competing in the finals for the awards 2020. « Our initial list with a total ...
Olari Elts in all-Russian program with the Finnish RSO
The Estonian conductor Olari Elts is a regular visitor to Helsinki and is often seen on the podium in front of both the Helsinki Philharmonic and the Finnish Radio Symphony ...
A Pettersson double-header with Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony
Christian Lindberg brought out the epic, almost Bruckner-like grandeur in the brass in Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 15. In the early 1990s the Swedish record label BIS began an ambitious project ...
ICMA Jury nominates 390 releases for the 2020 awards
The ICMA nomination list for 2020 is available. To see the list, just click on our Nominations button, which will lead you to lists sorted by labels or categories. For ...
The Finnish RSO celebrates Magnus Lindberg
Any given Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performance of Lindberg's music is both idiomatic and definitive. Throughout his long and distinguished career as a composer of orchestral music, the Finnish RSO, Lindberg's hometown ...
For the composer Craig Shepard, the music is in the street
Craig Shepard is the « maître d’œuvre » for two events that are part of the Festival d’Automne : ‘ON FOOT: Aubervilliers’, 24 daily silent walks in the city’, and ‘TRUMPET CITY: ...
Intensity and commitment: John Storgårds and the Kamus Quartet play Pettersson
Pettersson requires superhuman concentration and virtuosity from the soloist and this is exactly what John Storgårds brought to the table. Like elsewhere in the classical music world, summer in Finland marks ...
