The worldwide globe of symphonic music requires chances to commemorate once in a while. One of the market’s large celebrations are the upcoming International Classical Music Awards, or ICMA for brief, a gala event hung on March 19 that will certainly include a performance with both well-known celebrities and beginners to the symphonic music scene.
Each year, ICMA is kept in a various place– in 2015, it occurred in Valencia, Spain, while this year Germany takes the lead. Düsseldorf’s Tonhalle will certainly be loaded with songs as countertenor Andreas Scholl, pianist Anna Gourari and violinist Gidon Kremer and others existing jobs by the similarity Mozart, Handel, Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky.
DW will certainly transmit the show survive on the You Tube network DW Classical Music
Searching for that unique something
The ICMA are amongst one of the most considerable worldwide honors in the symphonic music area. The honor champions are picked by 19 jurors from 16 nations, and they are mostly led by cds that have actually been lately launched. Over the program of a year, the court pays attention to and examines 20,000 cds prior to granting rewards in over 2 lots groups, from chamber songs to opera, and from modern timeless to historic recordings.
Of program it’s not simply the prestige of the artist or tag that counts, yet the high quality of the launch. Jurors search for extraordinary recently launched songs– and there’s constantly some to be discovered. The champions have actually currently been introduced and will certainly obtain their honors at the upcoming event.
Big celebrities and beginners
This year, Argentinian conductor and harpsichordist Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, based in Geneva, Switzerland, was called Artist of the Year, while the brand-new Rising Star from Luxembourg is 26-year-old cellist Benjamin Kruithof from Luxembourg.
Violist Gidon Kremer will certainly obtain the honor for life time accomplishment. “I am not a master of words, my words are the music,” Kremer informed DW. At the show in Düsseldorf, he will certainly play jobs by 2 Ukrainian authors, Valentin Silvestrov andViktor Kossenko “You can’t save the world with music. But you can perhaps use music to support the people who need it most today,” he kept in mind. In enhancement to artists, honors were likewise provided to cds, tags and songs docudramas.
DW Classical Music: From Germany to the globe
DW Classical Music, Deutsche Welle’s symphonic music network on You Tube, is relaying the ICMA gala for the 4th time, and wants to get to numerous hundreds of songs enthusiasts worldwide. The program of the prizewinners’ show in Wroclaw, Poland in 2023 was watched by virtually 2 million individuals.
This post was equated from German.
