Christian Reif
33-year-old German conductor Christian Reif has been appointed Chief Conductor of Gävle Symphony Orchestra, beginning in the 2023/24 season. In July 2019, Reif completed a three-year post as Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Lorenzo Viotti
Lorenzo Viotti will quit the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Dutch National Opera at the end of the 24/25 season. “I have decided to prioritize my personal life and development in the future in which I am the master of my own time,” said Viotti. Read More →
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 →
