Uxia Martinez-Botana shares her thoughts on fulfilling multiple roles in a chamber arrangement of Mozart’s work.
Hungarian-Swiss conductor and composer Mischa Santora, music director of Boston Ballet, was asked by choreographer Ken Ossola to write the score for his new ballet, inspired by Michelangelo.
This year’s edition of the Opera Nova Festival taking place between 14-22 June 2024 in Prague and intertwines opera with contemporary art.
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.
Three Hungarian composers cooked up their own amusing musical reflections on planet Earth’s sonic history at the Liszt Academy on April 27th.
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.
“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 permanent exhibition of the Veszprém Dungeon Visitor Centre, entitled Man Behind Bars, opened on 2 April.
The most memorable moments of VEB2023 will be recalled in the Laczkó Dezső Museum in Veszprém in the exhibition ‘Shine!’.
On Friday 3 May at 19:00 CET, Deutsche Welle will launch the ICMA Gala Concert premiere at the Palau de la Musica in Valencia on 12 Apr.
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.
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.
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