18-year-old pianist Roman Fediurko, a scholarship holder at the International Music Academy in Lichtenstein, has won First Prize and and five of the six Special Prizes at the International Horowitz Competition in Geneva, the Vere Music Fund for the best Ukrainian Artist, WFIMC Prize awarded for the best performance of a work written by a Ukrainian composer, the Audience Prize, the Prix Fondation Thiébaud-Frey and the Chopin Prize of the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Geneva. He was also offered some concerts.

Hans Abrahamsen
(c) Lars Skaaning

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 →

Der Dirigent Adam Fischer, Principal Conductor der Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, und die Tonhalle  Düsseldorf zeichnen dieses Jahr die iranische Autorin und Aktivistin Sanaz Azimipour mit dem Menschenrechtspreis aus. Read More →

Luzerner Sinfonieorchester
(c) Vera Hartmann

Das Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, das älteste Orchester der Schweiz (1805 gegründet) und sein Intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann sind mit dem Europäischen Kulturpreis yœurope Award ausgezeichnet. Read More →

Alexander Shelley
(c) Nürnberger Symphoniker

Artis-Naples, the premier center for the arts in Southwest Florida has announced that Alexander Shelley has been named Artistic and Music Director from the 2024-25 season. Read More →

Eine heute vom Deutschen Musikinformationszentrum (miz), einer Einrichtung des Deutschen Musikrates, veröffentlichte Studie ‘Professionelles Musizieren in Deutschland’ zeichnet insgesamt ein positives Bild der wirtschaftlichen Lage von Berufsmusizierenden. Sie offenbart aber auch fundamentale Ungleichheiten und damit Nachbesserungsbedarf insbesondere in Bezug auf die Situation von selbstständigen Musikern. Read More →

The winners of the International String Quartet Competition Bad Tölz 2023 were selected yesterday by the 7-member jury headed by Günter Pichler. Read More →

Mexican sopranos Paula Malagon and Jennifer Mariel won the First Women’s Grand Prize of the Maria Callas Competition 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Among the men, no first prize was awarded; second place went to bass Raul Morales Velazco, also from Mexico. Read More →

The Italian conductor and violinist Stefano Montanari, 54, has been appointed as Music Director of the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari. He will officially begin his tenure in January 2024 and remain in office for three years. Read More →

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