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IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2012

We are still watching watching watching... and already sharing the screening

schedule for the 11th IMZ-organised World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX. The

official selection will be revealed by the end of June, so stay tuned!

Meanwhile, for all questions, please first see the General Information Sheet, or

contact Tatiana Petkova for personal support.

Don’t miss the Smart Rate valid until 15 June… Register now for WOMEX 2012.

IMZ FILM SCREENINGS AT CLASSICAL:NEXT

The IMZ film screenings at Classical:NEXT were a grand success! Two days of

screenings, 8 films in full length and a great audience of both Classical:NEXT

delegates and non-business visitors…

Thank you all for your interest and positive feedback!

For those who missed it: see the complete programme here.

Also a big thanks to the Classical:NEXT team for their fantastic support! We are

looking forward to the next edition…

See also pictures of the IMZ presence on site

Click here for Classical:NEXT's final press release

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FILM FESTIVAL AT WIENER RATHAUSPLATZ 2012

… Adele … Anna Netrebko … The Stones … Jonas Kaufmann … Elvis Presley …

Valery Gergiev … Anastacia … Daniel Harding … Katie Melua … Christian

Thielemann … Andrea Bocelli … Alonzo King … Max Raabe … Maurizio Pollini …

Eric Clapton … Ray Charles … Vesselina Kasarova …

The famous free open-air Film Festival in front of Vienna City Hall is again put

together by the IMZ: From 30 June – 2 September 2012, a fine selection of

music films, highlights from the fields of classical music, jazz, world music and pop

will star on screen turning the hot spot of summer in the City of Vienna into the

heart of a vibrant world capital of music…

Let There Be Rock!

Crowning a splendorous celebration of tradition and the contemporary, of opera,

operetta, classical and modern dance, new productions and treasures from the

archives, this year’s programme is including brand-new features: For the first

time, one day of the “classical” week will be dedicated to popular music gems. Thus

we can have it all: Anastacia and Tosca, Carmen and Katie Melua, Andrea Bocelli and

Benvenuto Cellini, Nutcracker and Scheherazade … There is opera as well as The

Phantom of the opera, Baroque celebrations as well as Pavarotti and friends!

IMZ INTERNAL NEWSFurthermore, in the framework of “50 Jahre VIENNALE“ (Vienna International Film

Festival), the Rathausplatz Film Festival is cooperating with Viennale, presenting

milestones of concert-film-making from D.A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop and Elvis

Presley: 68 Comeback Special to Martin Scorseses Shine A Light.

Bigger Screen, New Sound Concept and Guidance System

With 300 m2 replacing the former 230m², the new screen is just the most

prominent sign of the festival’s new technical dimension… Updates in sound

design and architecture will set new standards, enhancing the pleasure of 65

summer nights of music euphoria.

What’s on…? Find the full programme here

For regulars, youngsters, lovers, experts, sceptics and novices…

Enjoy the unrivalled Wiener Rathausplatz experience in this summer’s most inviting

marriage of culture and the

culinary!

F i l m Fe s t i v a l a t W i en e r

Rathausplatz 2012

30 June – 2 September 2012

Entry free / Films: Daily at dusk

Gastronomy open from 11:00 –

24:00

www.wien-event.at

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The IMZ again cooperates with the music film festivals in Yekaterinburg and

Bucharest, organising the music film programmes.

The Music Film Festival in Bucharest will take place from 8 to 17

June 2012 at George Enescu Square.

The Vienna Music Film Festival in Yekaterinburg will take place

from 2 to 13 July 2012 in front of the Ural Federal University.

Both festivals will be open air, free of charge and combined with a food and

beverage area following the concept of the Rathausplatz Film Festival in Vienna.

VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL YEKATERINBURG &

MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN BUCHAREST

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IMZ MEMBER NEWSNOT A MEMBER YET? JOIN THE IMZ!Why be a member?

The IMZ is the one-stop shop for anyone in any position in the value chain from music and

dance creation to the buying public.

For an opera house it provides an instant media policy along with every element needed to

carry it out. For a broadcaster, it‘s every stage of the supply chain. For producers and

distributors, it‘s their entire global market. For everyone, it‘s a valuable network, a forum for

discussion, a showcase for productions, a lobbying group, a database, and an information

exchange.

You wish to stay on top of evolving tastes and trends in the music world and the pertinent

audio, video, multi-media or online business? You are looking for the crucial contacts and want

support for your ambitious plans for the future?

With the IMZ you will have a strong partner on your side.

Who we assist

As a member, you are offered a host of benefits including invitations to events, workshops, talks

throughout the year, and more. The membership not only allows you to get closer to the music

and dance business, you also strengthen the IMZ´s impact on the development of the

audiovisual music and dance industry.

Few good reasons to join:

• To connect with producers and broadcasters worldwide

• To meet up to 80% of all available production funds at the yearly Avant Première Screenings

• To find out what other producers and broadcasters plan in order to avoid doubling up

• To find out what particularly works with the various audiences

• To get a feel for new talent behind the camera and on screen

• To build one´s own network

• To make friends with influential people in the industry

• To get advice on rights questions

• To be part of an international body that pulls more weight when collectively negotiating common causes

See all benefits and Membership Categories

Let´s lobby together for more music and dance in the

audiovisual media!

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IMZ MEMBER NEWSNEW IN THE IMZ

Russian Music Society

In 1859, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (a German-born aunt of Tsar Alexander

II) and her protégé, pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein founded the

Russian Music Society (RMS) aiming at enhancing the quality of both musical

education and classical performances in Russia. By the mid-1860s, the concerts

organised by the RMS had introduced the general public to the works of

Beethoven, Händel, Bach, Gluck, Schumann and Schubert as well as to new

compositios by Russian composers… Furthermore, the RMS was involved in

the establishment of the Conservatories in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Until its

liquidation in 1917, all concerts of the Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow

Conservatoire were performed under the aegis of the Imperial Russian Musical

Society. In 1995 then, the charitable fund “Russian Musical Society” has been set

up. In addition to the popularization of classical music, the recreated RMS

regards as its main task the support of the Great Hall Symphony Orchestra of

the State Conservatory. Conductor Yuri Botnari has been elected Vice-

President. He initiated a series of special recordings that now can be purchased

at the official RMS website.

Find the entire RMS album catalogue (available for purchase and download

in high-quality MP3 format) on www.russianmusicsociety.com.

Russian Music Society is a

h igh qua l i ty c l ass i ca l mus ic

production company that includes

RMS TV, RMS records, RMS

management. They produce classical

music video and audio recordings,

create ser ies , and organ i se

concerts, tours and broadcasting.

Creating musical bridges between

countries, it’s the RMS’ mission is to

keep classical music alive.

Latest release (25 May 2012) on

CD/DVD: Modest Mussorgsky’s

Night on the bare mountain and the

Romeo and Juliet Suite by Sergei

Prokofiev with the Bucharest George Enescu Philharmonic conducted by Yuri

Botnari.

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Upcoming:

Since 1992, for 20 years now, EuroArts has produced the annual summer concert

of the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Waldbühne in Berlin. Under the baton of the

young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, together with the 1st concertmaster

Daishin Kashimoto as a soloist, they will musically focus on Piotr I. Tchaikovsky.

Sunday, 24 June 2012, 8:15 pm CET – Live

Produced by EuroArts Music in co-production with RBB/ARD

In Postproduction:

Since 1972, the 12 Cellists of the Berliner

Philharmoniker have been a prominent institution in

the international music life. Their mixture of seriousness and

humor, of depth and lightness, appeals to audiences of all

ages. On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the ensemble

welcomes Annette Dasch and Till Brönner.

EUROARTS

Jubilee Summer

The DVD Anniversary edition includes the concert performance and a documentary

by Enrique Sánchez Lansch chronicling the history of this fascinating group of

musicians. Read more

Release Highlights in June:

On the occasion of Sergiu Celibidache’s 100th birthday

on 11 July, EuroArts will release Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7

with the Berliner Philharmoniker on DVD and Blu-ray Disc

– re-mastered and upscaled to HD and including the

documentary The Triumphant Return by Wolfgang Becker.

Please click here for more Celibidache titles available for TV

distribution.

IMZ MEMBER NEWSNEW PRODUCTIONS

On the same date, EuroArts will celebrate the 85th birthday

of Herbert Blomstedt with a Blu-ray Anniversary

edition including Bach’s Mass in B minor and the 9th October

Memorial Concert recorded at the St. Thomas Church. Both

titles are also available for TV distribution.

And there will be more…

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IMZ MEMBER NEWSWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

Georg Zeppenfeld, Bernard Richter, Mandy Fredrich

Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Staged by Jens-Daniel Herzog

Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos

(Original Version 1912)

Emily Magee, Elena Moșuc, Jonas Kaufmann

Wiener Philharmoniker/Daniel Harding

Staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf

Peter von Winter: Das Labyrinth - der zweyte Theil der Zauberflöte

Christof Fischesser, Julia Novikova, Michael Schade

Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Ivor Bolton

Staged by Alexandra Liedtke

Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten

Alfred Muff, Laura Aikin, Tomasz Konieczny

Wiener Philharmoniker/Ingo Metzmacher

Staged by Alvis Hermanis

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The Salzburg Festival 2012 – Live EventsAs exclusive audiovisual partner of the Salzburg Festival

UNITEL will produce – in co-production with ZDF, 3sat,

Arte, NHK and ORF – the following highlights of this year’s

festival:

Operas

Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème

Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Nino Machaidze

Wiener Philharmoniker/Daniele Gatti

Staged by Damiano Michieletto

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IMZ MEMBER NEWSConcerts

Wiener Philharmoniker – Valery Gergiev

(Opening Concert)

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major Op. 100

Sergei Semishkur (Tenor)

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor

Wiener Philharmoniker – Mariss Jansons

R. Strauss: Don Juan – Tone poem Op. 20

Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68

Nina Stemme (Soprano)

Concentus Musicus Wien – Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Mozart: Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento K. 243

Mozart: Missa longa in C major K. 262

Sylvia Schwartz (Soprano), Elisabeth von Magnus (Mezzo-Soprano),

Jeremy Ovenden (Tenor), Florian Boesch (Bariton)

Arnold Schoenberg Chor

Orchestra Mozart – Claudio Abbado

Mozart: Mass in C minor K. 139 “Waisenhausmesse”

Schubert: Mass in E flat major D 950

Rachel Harnisch (Soprano), Sara Mingardo (Contralto), Javier Camarena (Tenor), Paolo

Fanale (Tenor), Alex Esposito (Bass)

Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Ballet

Dance & Quartet – Zürcher Ballett and the Hagen Quartett

Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”

Schubert: String Quartet in D minor D 810 “Der Tod und das Mädchen”

Dvořák: String Quartet in F major Op. 96 “American”

Choreographer: Heinz Spoerli

For most productions live signal will be

ava i lable ! P l e a s e con t a c t C Ma jo r

Entertainment for the exact dates and times, or

telephone: +49-(0)30-30306464.

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Just a few of the many television programme highlights ORF-Enterprise has

presented at Classical Next in Munich…

Wall Street of Voices:

T h e H a n s G a b o r

B e l v e d e r e

International Singing

Competition

141 young singers, selected

f r o m o v e r 3 0 0 0

contestants in pre-rounds

throughout the world,

travelled to Vienna to make their dreams come true. Young filmmaker Michael

Podogil and Rudolf Takacs follow several candidates from their arrival in Vienna

through the finals. The film also features interviews with the casting directors in

Europe and the United States.

Mörbisch Festival 2012: Die Fledermaus

Die Fledermaus probably is the best-known work of the golden era of operetta in

Vienna. This year, tenor Herbert Lippert will take on the role of Eisenstein,

IMZ MEMBER NEWSORF-ENTERPRISE

Alexandra Reinprecht (both Vienna State Opera) will be Rosalinde, Daniela Fally, the

new star at the Vienna State Opera is starring Adele and Daniel Serafin is ready to

incorporate Dr. Falke. After 20 years of successful work, the renowned doyen of

Mörbisch Festival, Harald Serafin says goodbye with his role as Frank, the prison

warden.

Summer Gala Concert – Grafenegg 2012

This year’s concert of the “Tonkünstler-Orchestra” will take place in June and like

all other Grafenegg concerts will not fail to impress. Guesting at the Wolkenturm

are mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, tenor Michael Schade and the violist Vadim

Repin.

We are proud to present these and many other precious music programmes to our

TV clients all over the world.

For further information on these and

more TV programmes, please

contact

marion.camus-oberdorfer@orf.at,

Head of Content Sales International.

http://contentsales.ORF.at

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IMZ MEMBER NEWS

Sixth Season of Live Broadcasts from New York’s Metropolitan

Opera comes to Record-Breaking End

The sixth season of The Met Live in HD, presented in Germany and Austria

by Clasart Classic, came to an end with two absolute highlights, the first of which

was the premiere of the new Met production of Massenet’s opera Manon in New

York in early April with Anna Netrebko singing the title role. “She’ll seduce you!”

raved the New York Post, and the New York Times elatedly proclaimed this Manon

to be “of rare intensity and emotional depth.” A record was broken at the last

broadcast of the season, with nearly 40,000 opera lovers filling 140 theaters in

Germany and Austria to experience La Traviata with Natalie Dessay live from New

York’s Metropolitan Opera, an event that grossed over one million euros. Clasart

Classic registered over 200,000 viewers during the 2011/2012 season, which

represents an increase of 25% in comparison with the previous year.

Sold-out cinemas can be reckoned with in the coming season as well. On the

programme of the opening night on 13 October 2012: Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore

with Anna Netrebko! Of course, celebrating the Verdi anniversary year 2013, Verdi

will be holding center stage: The programme contains opera highlights such as

Otello, Aida, Rigoletto and Un ballo in maschera…

CLASART CLASSICS

In addition to Manon and La Traviata, Clasart Classic provides about 60 further

outstanding productions from The Met Live in HD series for TV.

For more information, please contact Katharina Biro.

ACCENTUS

Isang Yun in North and South Korea

One figure of the two Koreas (North and South) whose outstanding biography bridges

both worlds is composer Isang Yun. Not only was he one of the very few people

recognised in both Koreas, he also spent his life trying to reconcile his country.

ACCENTUS Music honors Yun with a one-hour documentary by Maria Stodtmeier.

The film traces the course of a life that has been interpreted in different ways;

examining the worlds of North and

South Korean music and taking the

viewer on an exciting journey

through two political systems.

ACCENTUS has just completed

shooting in North Korea and has

gathered material which gives an

extraordinary insight into a society

of a country which is probably the

most difficult to enter in the

world.In the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea

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IMZ MEMBER NEWSArtist Neo Rauch to continue Collaboration with ACCENTUS

Music

At present, the internationally renowned painter is working on a new painting

inspired by the ACCENTUS Music recording of Riccardo Chailly and the

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig performing Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4

in April 2012. The painting will become the perfect cover for the 4th Symphony

DVD and Blu-ray release in autumn 2012. Neo Rauch also designed the

cover image for the ACCENTUS Music production of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and

chose a painting from his oeuvre for the release of Symphony No. 2 last year.

For further information, please contact Ulrike Gratz.

www.accentus.com

Peter Rosen's God's Fiddler continues to rack up awards and show dates…

The feature length documentary film on violin legend Jascha Heifetz recently

received the Audience Choice Award at the 22nd annual San Diego Film Festival.

After it's November world Premiere in New York, it had its Los Angeles Premiere

at the prestigious American Cinematheque Theatre on 21 April and its London

Premiere at the Greenwhich Picturehouse on 10 May.

PETER ROSEN PRODUCTIONS

The film recently aired on Arte, and it will be broadcast in the USA on PBS

American Masters series in 2013.

Distributed by EuroArts, God's Fiddler has just been released on DVD.

Another recent EuroArts release of a Peter Rosen film is Nobuyuki Tsujii Live

at Carnegie Hall, co-produced with WDR/Arte and Avex Classics International.

The film, aired on Arte on 29 April to unusually high viewer response, will soon be

released on DVD. The first film in Peter Rosen's proposed trilogy on the blind

pianist, A Surprise in Texas (2010) has been distributed and broadcast world-wide.

For more information, please contact rosenprod@aol.com.

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Antoine’s Four Seasons

FR | 40’ | HD | By Philippe Béziat & Gordon | Camera lucida |Broadcasters: France

Télévisions, ARTE, YLE

After the success of The Carnival of Animals, awarded at the Golden Prague Festival and by

Prix Italia, Camera lucida produced Antoine’s Four Seasons, a fictionalised performance with

animations of Vivaldi’s most famous violin concertos. The film features the Concerto

Italiano conducted by Vivaldi expert Rinaldo Alessandrini as well as the actor Pierre

Richard.

The unique combination of music, actors and

cartoons, aiming at making classical music

appealing for a younger audience, also is

great entertainment for both children and

parents.

The programme will be broadcasted by

France 3 on the International Music Day, on

21 June, and – in the youth TV slot – by Arte for the end-of-the-year-2012 festivities.

Enjoy the trailer on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ93FgIJSUU!

An iPad application of the film will be available by end of June 2012.

Contact: Pauline Mazenod. www.windrose.fr

WINDROSE

WHAT’S ON…ZDF MUSIC ON ARTE

Just Completed…

15 Juni 2012, 08:15 pm, on ARTE

Live from O2 World Berlin: Happy Birthday, Lang Lang!

Lang Lang, pop star on the classical music scene, is celebrating his 30th birthday in

June! On 15 June, an audience of over 10,000 piano aficionados are expected at the

Berlin O2 World. On the programme: Tchaikowsky’s piano concerto No. 1 and

Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in the arrangement by Herbie Hancock, who will join in

the piano party as a special guest.

17 Juni 2012, 06:30 pm, on ARTE

MAESTRO: Anne-Sophie Mutter & Mendelssohn

“Beauty, passion, purity and hope […] a stroke of genius”: That is how violinist Anne-

Sophie Mutter has characterised Mendelssohn’s violin concerto in E minor…

With the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig conducted by Kurt Masur.

27 Juni 2012, 09:45 pm, on ARTE

MUSICA: Sergiu Celibidache – Feuerkopf und Philosoph

Impulsive but intellectual, exuberant but most meticulous, benign but merciless – He

was contradiction in person: Conductor Sergiu Celibidache. On 28 June, ARTE is

celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birthday with a documentary visiting friends

and companions in Romania, Germany and France…

www.zdf.de

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IMZ MEMBER NEWS

NEW APPLICATIONSmsm-productions New iPhone and Android App

Catering for clients’ needs beyond audio/video recording and postproduction,

msm-productions have just launched the iPhone and Android app for the

Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Designed and built with their team of

experts, the app is the easy way to access orchestra news, the full concert

calendar, concert-specific programme notes as well as exclusive audio and video

content. The app also integrates Google Maps incl. automatic distance calculation

for the nearest ticketing agency, which can be contacted directly from the app for

pre-booking. In order to stay in close touch with the daily happenings at the SSO,

the app also hosts direct, in-app access to SSO’s Facebook site.

The app has been developed on a cross-platform technology, an advantage

that allows for an easy and simultaneous release of the iPhone version as well as

the Android version. Being more cost-efficient than two separate, natively

programmed apps – one for iPhone and the other for Android – this cross-

platform approach covers the two main user segments and guarantees for a high

market penetration. Despite Apple’s high profile, Android smartphones have picked

up massively in 2011, exceeding Apple’s market share in many of the key markets.

FESTIVAL NEWS

Download the app for free from the App-

Store (iPhone) or Google Play (Android).

msm-productions is an international

production pool providing end-to-end

solutions for the music and arts industry –

from recording to post-postproduction and

final release, from bespoke print to web &

app design. The joint-services of msm-

studios, NIGHTFROG and White Label

Productions simplify the production chain for

your release.

www.msm-studios.com

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IMZ MEMBER NEWSFESTIVAL NEWS

49th International Television Festival Golden Prague

13 – 17 October 2012 | Zofin Palace, Prague

List of the programmes competing in the ITF GP 2012

The team of the ITF Golden Prague is working on the festival programme…

Save The Date! The Opening Gala Concert will be held on Saturday 13 October, at 20:00. Official Awards Ceremony: Wednesday, 17 October at 08:00 pm.

Furthermore, on Monday, 15 October, at 08:00 pm, there will be a Tribute to Boris

Eifmann followed by a Tribute to Roland Petit on Tuesday 16.October.

We keep you posted…

The deadline for registration is 15 September 2012! Fill in your personal registration form here

The Metropolitan Opera

Free Summer Events

The Metropolitan Opera is looking forward to the return of its popular free

outdoor series of summer events… For the fourth consecutive year, the Met will

present operatic recitals in parks in all five boroughs, as well as a ten-day festival of

encore screenings from the Met’s popular HD transmissions in Lincoln Center

Plaza.

Once again, this year’s programme is sure to inspire a whole new generation of opera lovers…

The Met’s 2012 Summer Recital Series, presented in collaboration with City Parks Foundation, will feature six free concerts beginning 25 July and concluding 9

August.

The popular Summer HD Festival runs 25 August – 3 September. Titles and starting times for the screenings will be announced closer to the festival date.

All recitals are free and no tickets are required. For detailed information, please visit the Met website at www.metopera.org/parks.

San Francisco Symphony

Summer & The Symphony

As a unique highlight of the San Francisco Symphony’s popular Summer & the

Symphony series, on 28 and 29 July, the concert line-up includes the world

premiere of Pixar in Concert, with the Orchestra performing memorable scores to accompany visually stunning clips from each of Pixar’s films. Michael Feinstein

will perform Sinatra classics with his Big Band. Screenings of The Wizard of Oz (26 and 27 July) will be accompanied by the SFS. The Classical Mystery

Tour will celebrate The Beatles’ classic songs, in costume, with the orchestra

playing the original symphonic arrangements.

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The classical concerts, led by conductor Michael Francis, kick off with a

programme of Spanish-inflected favorites on 12 July, featuring guitarist Pablo Sainz

Villegas, followed by a night of Russian favorites featuring violinist Karen Gomyo on 13 July. Furthermore, there will be an all-Beethoven programme with Pianist

Gilles Vonsattel (14 July), a celebration of all-American favorites (19 July)

featuring pianist Charlie Albright as well as an all-Dvořák programme with cellist

Alisa Weilerstein (20 July).

The coolest place at the Symphony? An all-new Summer Hot Spot, offering a

fresh and exciting way to take in a San Francisco Symphony concert… There will be

food and drinks in the updated Second Tier bar and guests will have the ability to bring beverages ordered from the Second Tier to their seats. Attendees are invited to

tweet about the concert, share thoughts with friends on Facebook, check in at Davies Symphony Hall on Foursquare and check email during the concert. All seats in the

Second Tier make up the Summer Hot Spot, and will be open for silenced, free

wireless access.

Find more information on the Summer & the Symphony concerts at www.sfsymphony.org/summer.

IMZ MEMBER NEWSSono Artists Consulting

Mezzo-Soprano Erica Brookhyser wins “Open Opera” Competition

Congratulations to American mezzo-

soprano Erica Brookhyser for winning the Open Opera competition; with more than

500 applicants the young mezzo-soprano was

chosen and will sing the role of Carmen in Seefestspiele Berlin this summer! The

festival will be held 12 – 26 August and will

be broadcast on ARTE France & Germany.

A Successful Run of Mama Dolorosa in the 2012 Munich Biennale

Soprano Rebecca Nelsen sang the lead

role in Mama Dolorosa as a part of the

Munich Biennale last month. The talented soprano was praised by both audience and

critics for her electrifying performance. Rebecca Nelsen will continue her fantastic

season and will sing the role of Violetta in

Verdi’s La Traviata at the Semperoper Dresden in June.

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Obituary

JOHANNES JOHANSSON (1951 – 2012)

PRINCIPAL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIK, STOCKHOLM

It is with deep sadness and sympathy that we announce the

unexpected death of Johannes Johansson, Principal at the Royal

College of Music in Stockholm and former President of the European Association of Conservatoires, who many of you had

the pleasure of meeting in April at the European Forum on Music in Istanbul.

Johannes Johansson was born 1951 in Karlskrona, Sweden. He studied Philosophy,

History of Science and Musicology at Lund University and Church Music, Choir Conducting and Composition at the Malmö Academy of Music. As a composer, he

won international recognition for his works.

During the years 1999 – 2005, Johannes Johansson was one of two Directors at

the Malmö Academy of Music. In 2011, he completed a successful six-year term as

President of the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC). Johannes Johansson was also a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music and an

Honorary Member of both the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Chiara Skerath New Recipient of Migros Pour-Cent Award 2012

Chiara Skerath, the 24-year-old

Swiss soprano has been awarded a Migros Pour-Cent award. The

unique programme supports up-and-

coming Swiss artists through grants and scholarships including both financial

contribution and concert engagements. This is the second time this year the

young soprano has been awarded a

prestigious award; Chiara Skerath was also the winner of the Emmerich

Smola Förderpreis in Landau,

Germany earlier this year. This summer, Chiara Skerath returns to Oper

Klosterneuberg and will debut the role of Norina in Donizetti's Don

Pasquale (Premiere on 8 July 2012).

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At the time of his death, Johannes Johansson was strongly committed to the

development of the emerging field of artistic research at the Royal College of

Music in Stockholm, as well as nationally and internationally. This work has also included the development of the reflective element within programmes

at all levels, particularly as part of artistic degree projects.

The focus of work at the moment was also the launch of KMH's new building

project, a venture proceeding in close collaboration with the Royal College of

Music's Board of Directors and a number of partners in the business and public sectors. For Johannes Johansson the future premises were an outer

manifestation of the vision of making KMH an optimal centre for higher music education and a central artistic and educational meeting place.

The mail address memorial@kmh.se is open for condolences, questions and messages in connection with this sad occasion.

ICMA - INTERNATIONAL CLASSIC MUSIC AWARDSGALA IN NANTESThe ICMA Award Gala 2012 (15 May 2012) at La Cité in Nantes, France,

hosted by the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and its Music Director John

Axelrod, has been a big success. After the Award Ceremony, a Gala Concert featuring ICMA winners enthused an audience of 1,500 in La Cité's Grand

Auditorium.

During its General Assembly in Nantes, the Jury welcomed as a new member the Russian weekly Kultura.

As for the Awards of 2013: The Ceremony and Gala Concert will be hosted by the Orchestra La Verdi conducted by John Axelrod. The names of the winners will be

published in January 2013.

The Jury also announced that the ICMA Gala 2014 will take place during the renowned Beethoven Festival in Warsaw, organised by Elzbieta Penderecka.

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ICMA 2012 - The Winners

The winners were selected from a nomination list comprising 250 CD and

DVD productions.

“In a musical world showing an increasing number of recordings, our choice honors

outstanding productions of superior quality and provides reliable guidance to the music lovers.” (Remy Franck, President of the Jury)

The ICMA also include six awards to pay respect to exceptional musicians and producers. Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki won the Lifetime

Achievement Award; French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is Artist of the Year; German pianist Joseph Moog Young Artist of the Year; Ondine Label of the Year.

A Special Achievement Award went to the producer and re-recording engineer

Ward Marston. The Classical Website Award went to classicalplanet.com, an outstanding project coordinated by the Fundación Albéniz and offering musical

content as well as a social networking platform for young musicians. Among the recipients of the Awards in the 14 CD and DVD, the Jury selected the ECM

recording of piano works by Robert Schumann played by Andras Schiff as

Recording of the Year.

Find the complete list of the 2012 ICMA Award winners here.

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