IMZ Newsletter March 2011 as pdf

NE WS L E T T ER MARC H 2 011 IMZ INTERNAL NEWS

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

• IMZ GENERAL ASSEMBLY MINUTES ONLINE

• ICMA 2011 AND THE WINNERS ARE…

• IMZ DIRECTORY ONLINE

• 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE NEW WEBSITE

• AVANT PREMIÈRE 2011 SHOW REELS ONLINE

• QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION VIOLIN AND COMPOSITION

• IEMMYS: IMZ IS JUDGING • IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2011: CALL FOR ENTRY! • „GOLDEN PRAGUE PREMIÈRES 2010” – IMZ AT THE 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE: CALL FOR ENTRY! • STAFF NEWS

• EUROARTS SAMSON, THE NEIGHBOUR AND NEW BLU-RAY RELEASES • C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT THREE SUPERSTARS, MAHLER AND A COMMEMORATION • ACCENTUS MUSIC WINE, WOMEN AND SONG • SERVUSTV AT FIFA IN MONTREAL • ORF ON TOUR WITH OMAR SOSA AND A JAZZMIX IN NEW YORK • WHAT’S ON… ZDF IN MARCH

N EWSLE T TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS • MOVING ANGEL AWARDED PREIS DER DEUTSCHEN SCHALLPLATTENKRITIK • ALLEGRO FILMS DVD OF THE YEAR AWARD

RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS • BANFF INTERNATIONAL PILOTS COMPETITION • 9TH INTERNATIONAL FRANZ LISZT PIANO COMPETITION

• VAN WALSUM MANAGEMENT RENAMED AS INTERNATIONAL CLASSICAL ARTISTS

• 9TH CINEDANS CALL FOR ENTRIES

• SFS CENTENNIAL SEASON

• ZKM | INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC AND ACOUSTICS CALL FOR PROPOSALS

LOOKING FOR PRODUCTION PARTNERS FRANÇOIS ROUSSILLON & ASSOCIÉS REVIVING ATYS

• ARC MUSLIM WORLD MUSIC DAY

F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E W W W. I M Z . AT

N EWSLE T TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS IMZ GENERAL ASSEMBLY MINUTES ONLINE

AVANT PREMIÈRE 2011 SHOW REELS ONLINE

As every year, the IMZ held its General Assembly at MIDEM. Those who didn’t

New this year and in accordance with the enhanced online presence of the IMZ

have the chance to attend have now the possibility to take a look at the minutes

(thus as already announced on our Facebook page), you may find some of this

online in the members’ area of the IMZ website.

year’s Avant Première show reels on the IMZ YouTube channel. The easiest way to get there is to click the YouTube icon visible on the IMZ website. Enjoy some

IMZ DIRECTORY ONLINE Are you waiting unpatiently for the next edition of the IMZ directory, too? We

exciting previews that will hopefully be a useful addition to the Avant Première 2011 catalogue.

are glad to announce that its updated version is from now on available online in the IMZ members area (please use your log in and passwort to enter and search the directory). The printed edition of the directory should reach you per snail

IEMMYS: IMZ IS JUDGING

mail by the end of March. (We are sorry if this somewhat delayed delivery has

The IMZ will again host the International Emmy Awards Semi-Finals Judging in

caused you any inconvenience!)

the category Arts Programming (Englisch Language and Asia/Africa/Middle East). According to the high standarts of the Academy, the jury will be composed of 15 international key players from the arts and media branch. The judging will take place on 20 June 2011 in Vienna.

N EWSLE T TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2011 CALL FOR ENTRY! 15 April is the deadline for entries to the 10th IMZ-organised World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX taking place 26 October – 30 October 2011 for the third and last time in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Go for it and submit any recently produced world music programmes that have not been presented at WOMEX before. We are looking for undeniable cinematic quality – a film that grabs and moves the viewer, with an intriguing storyline, dramatic composition, strong visuals and first-rate camera work. We welcome new, unheard, unseen subjects and niches but are open to established artists as well. In addition the quality of the music itself is most important and one of the key criteria for the selection process.

Submit your proposals and find all necessary information here: Please note our new conditions this year which include a submittion fee of €60 per programme for non-IMZ members as well as a handling fee of €150 for the programmes selected for the screenings. Have a look at the general information sheet in order to see what the fees cover.

Futhermore, the proposed entries may also become part of our World music film on Tour non-profit distribution project.

WOMEX is “the most important international professional market of world music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers.” (UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity) The 2010 edition saw 2440 delegates from 94 countries and 650 exhibiting companies and presented 59 acts including 300 artists from 38 countries, featuring 5 nighttime stages at the spectacular DR Koncerthuset and one Daycase Stage. More than 60 speakers from 21 countries shared their professional know-how with WOMEX delegates in 20 Conference Sessions centring The Live, The Recorded, and The Digital Experience, as well as the "Vision Beyond".

For personal support, please contact Tatiana Petkova (t.petkova@imz.at)

N EWSLE T TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS IMZ AT THE 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE “GOLDEN PRAGUE PREMIERES 2011” CALL FOR ENTRY IMZ and ITF Golden Prague are happy to announce that the 48th edition of the ITF Golden Prague, is taking place on 15 – 19 October 2011 at Žofín Palace, Prague.

“Golden Prague Premiers 2011”

STAFF NEWS

trainee. We are happy to have Orly

NEW IN THE TEAM: ORLY SCHWARTZMAN Orly Schwartzman, a young lady from Israel who, after working in New Zealand and Australia in the

The successful Golden Prague Premiers will be continued this year. The IMZ and

cultural/educational field, has moved

ITF Golden Prague are happy to offer three special screening slots - “Golden

to Vienna two and a half years ago

Prague Premieres 2011”:

(the books by George Orwell in the

On three different evenings three IMZ members will have the possibility to present their latest programme to the professional audience of the festival.

rucksack…) for completing her BA

For the “Golden Prague Premieres 2011” we are looking for music and dance

in finance. Love for the arts, especially music, and her ambition to

television programmes and films, which have not had their premiere yet.

gain further professional experience on her way

Deadline for submitting programmes: 31 May 2011

to social entrepreneurship led her to

For further information, please contact Katharina Jeschke at the IMZ office

the IMZ office in Vienna where she is

(k.jeschke@imz.at).

now supporting the IMZ team as a on board and look forward to working together with her!

N EWSLE T TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS – ICMA 2011 AND THE WINNERS ARE… The international and independent Jury has selected the winners in 20 categories from a nomination list comprising over 500 CD and DVD productions and a wide

THE AWARDS OF THE 14 CD AND DVD CATEGORIES OF ICMA 2011: EARLY MUSIC: Dinastia Borgia Montserrat Figueras, Lior Elmaleh, Driss El Maloumi, Pascal Bertin, Lluís Vilamajó, Marc Mauillon, Furio Zanasi, Daniele Carnovich, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall Alia Vox AVSA9875A+C

range of artists and labels.

“Our winners are the expression of the highest artistry and demonstrate that this Jury is a stubborn holdout for nonaligned value judgments in a world of low-common-

BAROQUE: Via Crucis Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Tarquino Merula,

denominator commercialism!" (Remy Franck, President of the Jury)

Benedetto Ferrari, Luigi Rossi, Claudio Monteverdi, Lorenzo Allegri, Nuria Rial, Philippe Jaroussky,

The renowned pianist and founder of the Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem

Ensemble L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar

Pressler, wins the Lifetime Achievement Award; composer and conductor Esa Pekka Salonen is Artist of the Year; French pianist

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David Kadouch Young Artist of the Year; Chandos Label of the Year. A Special Achievement Award goes to the label BIS for its

VOCAL RECITAL: Gustav Mahler: Lieder

complete Sibelius Edition, a landmark in that composer's discography. The

Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber

Classical Website Award goes to the Digital Concert Hall, a tremendous initiative from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

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N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS CHORAL: Igor Stravinsky: Les Noces,

Wolff, Joachim Buhrmann, Magnus Staveland, Alois Mühlbacher,

Œdipus Rex

Christoph Schlögl, Philipp Pötzlberger, René Möller, Clemens-

Mlada Khudoley, Olga Savova, Alexander

Maria Nuszbaumer, Christian Koch, RIAS Kammerchor &

Timchenko, Andrei Serov, Alexander Mogilevsky,

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi

Svetlana Smolina, Yulia Zaichkina, Maxim

HMC902068/70)

Mogilevsky, Gérard Depardieu, Sergei Semishku, Evgeny Nikitin, Ekaterina Sememchuk, Mikhail Petrenko, Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus, Valery Gergiev (Mariinsky MAR0510)

SOLO INSTRUMENT: Complete Piano Works Vol. 5 Claude Debussy: Khamma, Jeux, La boîte à joujoux Jean Efflam Bavouzet (Chandos CHAN 10545)

OPERA

CHAMBER MUSIC: Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin

RECORDING OF THE YEAR: Wolfgang

Sonatas Nos. 3 & 9 (Kreutzer)

Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte,

Viktoria Mullova, Kristian Bezuidenhout (Onyx 4050)

K620 Daniel Behle , Marlis Petersen, Daniel Schmutzhard, Sunhae Im, Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, Marcos Fink, Kurt Azesberger, Inga Kalna, Anna Grevelius, Isabelle Druet, Konstantin

CONCERTOS: Robert Schumann: Complete works for violin and orchestra Lena Neudauer, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Pablo Gonzalez (Hänssler Classic 93 258)

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS S Y M P H ON I C : D m i t ri S h o s t a kov i c h : Symphony No. 8 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily

HISTORICAL: Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 7 (complete) Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Melodiya 1001669)

Petrenko (Naxos 8.572392) DVD PERFORMANCE: Richard Wagner: Der CON T E M P O R A RY: F ri e d ri c h C e r h a : Spiegel, Momentum, Momente SWR-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Sylvain Cambreling, ORF-Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Dennis Russell Davies, Friedrich Cerha (Kairos KAI0013002)

FIRST RECORDING: Antonio Vivaldi: Armida al campo d'Egitto Furio Zanasi, Marina Comparato, Romina Basso, Martín Oro, Sara Mingardo, Monica Bacelli, Raffaella Milanesi, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP30492)

Ring des Nibelungen Juha Uusitalo, Franz-Josef Kapellmann John Daszak Gerhard Siegel Matti Salminen, Anna Larsson Peter Seiffert, Petra Maria Schnitzer Jennifer Wilson, Lance Ryan, Ralf Lukas, …, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta; Staged

by La Fura dels Baus (C Major 703 808)

DVD DOCUMENTARIES: Piotr I. Tchaikovsky: Two films (Tchaikovsky's Women, Fate) Written & directed by Christopher Nupen (Allegro Films A 10CN D)

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IMZ MEMBER NEWS The winners will receive the ICMA Trophies during the annual Award Ceremony, which takes place this year in Tampere,

15 – 19 OCTOBER 2011, ZOFIN PALACE, PRAGUE The new website has been launched! You are most welcome to visit and enter your programmes on http://www.festivalgoldenprague.cz.

Finland on 6 April.

Deadlines:

On the jury – professional music critics of the most important

Programme entry forms: 15 April 2011

magazines, online services and radio stations: Crescendo (Belgium),

Submission of programmes and payment: 15 May 2011

Fono Forum (Germany), Gramofon (Hungary), IMZ (Austria), MDRFigaro (Germany), Musica (Italy), Musik & Theater (Switzerland),

Personal registration form: 15 September 2011

Orpheus Radio (Russia), Pizzicato (Luxembourg), Resmusica.com

What to expect at this year’s ITF Golden Prague?

(France), Scherzo (Spain) and Viva Classica (Finland).

In addition to the prestigious competition, there will be a Videolibrary for the public with all

For further information, please visit the website www.icma-info.com

competition films, live concerts, the Czech Television Day and other events. The Focus on... cycle

or contact Remy Franck at rfranck@pt.lu.

introduces the Russian television station TV Kultura and British BBC Television. This year, in the framework of the Tributes to..., ITF GP is presenting director Christopher Nupen, the work of American dance legend Alvin Ailey, and is welcoming the French choreographer Roland Petit. Of course, the Golden Prague Premieres – special screenings of some of the most remarkable music and dance films that have recently been finished – will be continued in cooperation with IMZ (Find more information on www.imz.at). Last but not least, a joint EBU and IMZ workshop will be held examining “Music and dance on television and new media”. And finally the EBU and IMZ meetings will take place in Prague, exact date to be confirmed.

The ITF GP team looks forward to meeting you…

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: VIOLIN 2012 - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: COMPOSITION 2011 & 2012

In 2012, the 17th competition dedicated to violinists will bring some

minutes, to be played in the final of the Queen Elisabeth

novelties:

Competition for violinists in 2012.

The age limit is raised to 30 years (e.g. participants must be born

Application deadline: 31 October 2011. Age limit: Only

after 15 January 1982). The candidates will have to propose two

works by living composers, born after 31 October 1971, will be

different recitals for the semi-final, of which the jury will choose one to be performed. More information is available in the rules of this

accepted.

competition on www.qeimc.be Online application will start on the

minutes, to be played in the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for pianists in 2013.

same website in fall 2011 (application deadline: 15 January 2012). The semi-finalists will be accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, under the baton of Michael Hofstetter. Once more we’ll meet the National Orchestra of Belgium and Gilbert Varga at the final at the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts.

The 2012 Violin Competition will mark the 75th anniversary of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, established in 1937 under the name of the renowned Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.

2011: Work for violin and symphony orchestra of about 10

2012: Work for piano and symphony orchestra of about 10

Application deadline: 31 October 2012. Age limit: Only works by living composers, born after 31 October 1972, will be accepted.

For more information, please read the rules of the composition competitions 2011 & 2012.

© Queen Elisabeth Competition

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS EUROARTS NEW PROGRAMMES MARCHING IN…AND HERE THEY COME: Saint-Saëns: Samson Et Dalila A surprisingly topical opera about the mechanisms of fanaticism. Telling the story of the impossible love between the Jew Samson and the Philistine Dalila, the Palestinian-Israeli production team transfers the scenario into a present-day context.

Duration: 122’ / Format: HD / Programme number: 5862 Director: Willy Vanduren / A co-production of Canvas and Vlaamse Opera Antwerp/Ghent

© EuroArts

The Neighbour This award-winning film featuring Leif Ove Andsnes is about man and woman, about single people, about the chance to start all over again.

Duration: 23’ / Format: HD / Programme number: 5877 / Choreography: Jo Strømgren / Director: Stein-Roger Bull / Produced by: Nordisk Film, in co-production with Strømgren Kompani, NRK

© EuroArts

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C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT NEW IN THE CATALOGUE:

New On DVD/Blu-ray: “Berliner Philharmoniker – Hilary Hahn – Mariss Jansons“ 3 new issues of the Introducing series: Haydn: Symphony no. 94 Surprise, Beethoven: Symphony no. 9, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Anna Bolena With Anna Netrebko And Elīna Garanča Live from the Vienna State Opera: Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča in Gateano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. As Henry VIII: Ildebrando D’Arcangelo. Live signal available on 5 April 2011 (Length approx. 150’ / Format: HD, 5.1 Surround Sound / Director: Brian Large / Production: Unitel in co-production with ORF and Arte / TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment.

www.euroarts.com

© Felix Broede Three Superstars At The Waldbühne Berlin Anna Netrebko will be back at Berlin’s stunning Waldbühne! Joining her are baritone super star Erwin Schrott and star tenor Jonas Kaufmann. On the programme: famous duets and arias by Gershwin, Bernstein, Puccini, Mozart and Gounod. On 16 August 2011 – Live. (Length approx. 90’ / Format: HD, 5.1 Surround Sound / Production: ZDF in co-production with Unitel / TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment.

© EuroArts © DEAG

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS Bernard Haitink – Mahler 9 – Live As one of the highlights of the special two-season Mahler series by the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam in the Mahler years 2010 and 2011, C Major Entertainment presents Mahler’s Ninth conducted by Bernard Haitink, live from the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on 15 May 2011. (Format: HD / Length: approx. 80’ / Production: AVRO in co-production with 3sat / TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment.

© Todd Rosenberg

In Commemoration Gary Moore C Major Entertainment commemorates the multitalented guitarist, who died on 6 February 2011 at the age of 58, by presenting one of his last concert performances taped for TV, with all his major hits: Gary Moore plays Avo Session. /Length: 60’ / Director: Roli Bärlocher / Production: Avo Session Basel, SF / TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment.

© Dominik Plüss

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS ACCENTUS MUSIC Proudly Presents…

The Philharmonics in a Viennese Coffeehouse: Johann Strauß’s waltzes arrangements by Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern In 1921, Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg set out to rescue their Society for Private Musical Performances from financial ruin by making arrangements of some of Johann Strauß’s most popular waltzes. Their aim was to organise “model performances” for their members: elsewhere, they argued, the “constraints of everyday musical life” meant that performances could not be properly rehearsed. But they were unable to find enough paying members to cover their costs. As a result, they were reduced to giving endless concerts simply

© Fadil Berisha

as fundraisers. The four Strauß waltzes were first performed on 27 May 1921, with the composers themselves as executants: Berg on the harmonium, Schoenberg on the first violin and Webern on the cello.

The soloists of The Philharmonics – an ensemble made up of musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic – perform these arrangements again at a Café Sperl, a typical Viennese coffeehouse on 9 March 2011. The programme includes: Wein, Weib und Gesang op. 418 arranged by Alban Berg, Kaiserwalzer op. 437, Lagunen-Walzer, op. 411 – after motives from the comic opera Eine Nacht in Venedig, Rosen aus dem Süden, op. 388 arranged by Arnold Schoenberg, Schatzwalzer op. 418 – from the operetta Der Zigeunerbaron arranged by Anton Webern a.o.

A production of ACCENTUS Music in coproduction with ZDF/arte.

Length approx. 80’. Supported by Casinos Austria AG – Österreichische L o t t e r i e n G e s . m . b . H . a n d A R AG Ö s t e r r e i c h A l l g e m e i n e Rechtsschutzversicherungs-AG. Fo r f u r t h e r i n fo r m a t i o n , p l e a s e c o n t a c t U l r i ke G r a t z a t u.gratz@accentus.com

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS SERVUSTV AT FIFA IN MONTREAL Traces To Nowhere – The Conductor Carlos Kleiber was chosen by the Selection Committee for the 29th International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), to be held in Montréal, 17 – 27 March 2011.

Traces to Nowhere by Eric Schulz is the first documentary to be made about the exceptional conductor Carlos Kleiber, who died in 2004. The classical legend enthralled his audiences with his intensive and original interpretations. Kleiber was a perfectionist who painstakingly sought to discover the composers’ intention in their works and who abhorred the trend of creating a musical spectacle. He also avoided publicity as much as he possibly could. Traces To Nowhere breaks through the wall of silence surrounding the great genius for the first time, presenting material which has never been seen before.

The film tells the story of Kleiber’s last journey from Munich to the Slovenian mountain village of Konjsica where he died. In a series of sensitive interviews, friends such as Placido Domingo, Otto Schenk and – for the first time - Kleiber’s sister Veronika share new insights into the life of one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.

The ServusTV production will be published on DVD by Arthaus Musik. Coming soon…

Contact: Frank Gerdes at frank.gerdes@servustv.at

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS ORF

Jazzmix In New York

With Jason Lindner (cla), Yosvany Terry (as/

On Tour With Omar Sosa

A festival of 8 Jazz concerts taking place

chekere), Jay Collins (ts, fl, voc), Anat Cohen

And A Jazzmix In New York

every evening during 8 days in 8 different clubs: Every single concert being received

Omar Sosa – Out of Africa

enthusiastically by the audience, the last one

A production of BARKING DOG PRODUCTIONS filmed by Olivier Taieb, distributed by ORF.

Omar Sosa

(ts), Chris Karlic(bs, bcl), Avishai Cohen, Duane Eubanks (tp), Rafi Malkiel, Joe Fiedler (tb), Omer Avitale (b), Obed Calvaire (dm)

even referred to as one of the best concerts

et la participation de Baba Israel (poetics).

of 2008 by AllAboutJazz magazine! New

CHRIS DAVE & FRIENDS

York’s young jazz scene at its best!

With Chris Dave (dm), Robert Glasper

The Cuban-born piano virtuoso

(cla), Derrick Hodge (b).

Omar Sosa has been touring East Africa in 2009 visiting Ethiopia,

The concerts:

JALEEL SHAW

Burundi, Kenya, and Sudan. The cradle

VAL INC

With Jaleel Shaw (as) Aaron Goldberg (p),

of jazz and Afro-Cuban music…

With Marvin Sewell and Jowee Omicill

Otis Brown III (dm), Ben Williams (b).

AKINMUSIRE QUINTET

THEO BLECKMANN & KNEEBODY

With Ambrose Akinmusire (tp), Walter

With Theo Bleckmann (voc), Adam Benjamin

Omar Sosa has recorded a song with one outstanding musician in each country mixing his jazz and Cuban

Smith III (ts), Fabian Almazan (p), Harish

sounds with the traditional influences

(cla), Sha¬ne Endsley (tp), Kaveh Rastegar

he came across on his journey.

Raghavan (b), Justin Brown (dm).

(b), Ben Wendel (s), Nate Wood (dm).

Available: concert and documentary,

THE JASON LINDNER BIG BAND

FIELDWORK

52’ each

Jazzmix

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WHAT‘S ON… ZDF IN MARCH Broadcast On ARTE:

With Vijay Iyer (p), Steve Lehman (as), Tyshawn Sorey (dm).

A great moment of long-forgotten sounds on screen: With more than 8 millions CDs sold, 4 Grammys and numerous Gold-Disc-Awards, opera star Cecilia Bartoli could easily set her career on cruise control. But that’s not the Bartoli

WAITS-McPHERSON-BURTON

way! Instead, she passionately enjoys uncovering thrilling but little-known chapters in music history. This time her

With Nasheet Waits (dm), Eric McPherson

research took her on an expedition into the world of castrato singers. In MAESTRO: Cecilia Bartoli – Die Kunst der

(dm), Abraham Burton (ts).

Kastraten (13 March, 7.15 p.m., ARTE), Olivier Simmonet’s concert film featuring Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini, she is celebrating some of the most virtuosic music ever written providing a notion of these male-strength soprano voices fading away for 200 years…

For more information, please contact Eveline Kogler, Executive Assistant, Content Sales International at eveline.kogler@orf.at http://contentsales.orf.at

Communicating music… Ingo Metzmacher doesn’t want to settle for just creating beautiful sounds. In his Casual Concerts, he cures any kind of uneasiness one might feel when asked to enter the realm of contemporary music.

Imagine lions in the petting zoo… And nobody is harmed! Filmmaker Sigrun Matthiesen has portrayed the exceptional conductor in MUSICA: Ingo Metzmacher – Ein deutscher Dirigent (21 März, 10.50 p.m., ARTE). Featuring Marianne Faithful, Peter Konwitschny, Nuria Schönberg-Nono, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, a.o.

Last summer, Il Giardino Armonico celebrated the 25th anniversary of their founding giving a splendid concert at the Würzburg Residence… Enjoy their rendition of music by Antonio Vivaldi, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, and Georg Friedrich Händel in the ZDF programme MAESTRO: Giardino Armonico – Konzert zum 25. Jubiläum (27 März, 7.15 p.m., ARTE) www.zdf.de

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik

ALLEGRO FILMS TCHAIKOVSKY (TCHAIKOVSKY’S WOMEN / TCHAIKOVSKY: FATE)

The Association of German Record Critics honoured the

As announced by ICMA on 1 March: Christopher Nupen has won DVD of the Year Award

Moving Angel Film Production’s DVD Dauner forever! – a

(Documentary category) for the fourth time in six years (2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010)!

tribute to the legendary German jazz pianist and composer

Nupen has done it – and once again – with a composer whose reputation is suffering from a downturn

Wolfgang Dauner on the occasion of his 75th birthday – with

at the hands of fashion in this troubled moment of our musical history.

MOVING ANGEL FILM PRODUCTION

the German Record Critics’ Award as a “Recording of Exceptional Artistry” and selected it as one of the “Quarterly Best” of new releases for the first quarter 2011.

For a first glimpse, enjoy the Dauner forever! see trailer and dont hesitate to contact info@moving-angel.com for further

“Tchaikovsky’s story is one of the saddest in music. He struggled with the debilitating effects of acute anxiety – from childhood on – and from an uncontrollable sense of guilt about his homosexuality; he attempted suicide; he built a reputation for being Russia’s most important artist after Tolstoy, but it did nothing to relieve his pain and he said, with conviction, that it is better to live without celebrity. His gift for unforgettable melody, for giving us musical utterances that sing on in the mind – that we take home

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with us and which remain with us – has earned him a reputation for being facile and for offering little

A complete list of all awardees can be found here.

real content. The truth is exactly the opposite. There is an immeasurable distance between facile and

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facility: ask any honest musician and you will hear that Tchaikovsky is one of the greatest of all Western composers.”

(Christopher Nupen) In the words of Rémy Franck, chairman of the ICMA jury, “If you want really to understand the music of Tchaikovsky, you have to have seen this film”. Read more...

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IMZ MEMBER NEWS

THE CENTENNIAL SEASON including conductors Semyon Bychkov, Kent Nagano and

The 2011-12 season marks the Symphony’s hundredth year on the

Michael Tilson Thomas, pianist Stephen Kovacevich,

world’s cultural stage. From the first night of the season to the

violinist Daniel Hope, and opera director Laurent Pelly

last, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony will

International Classical Artists is (click here for the full list of artists). It also creates and the new name for London-based artist runs orchestral and touring projects, amongst these the

host a celebration of blazing, brilliant artistry. From the long-

agency Van Walsum Management. Stephen Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, l’Orchestre Wright, Chairman and Head of Artist symphonique de Montréal with Kent Nagano, the

soloists like Lang Lang, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, and Hilary Hahn, to breathtaking performances of Verdi’s Requiem and Beethoven’s

Management, explains: “The agency now Philharmonia Orchestra with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the has a name which conveys our worldwide Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Charles Dutoit (Find

Ninth Symphony, it promises to be the kind of season that only

scope and what we do: bringing every all information on ICA’s projects and tours here. aspect of artists’ careers under one roof, Whilst Wright will maintain the boutique nature of the presenting them to the public through agency, a small number of exciting new artists will join

studded Gala…

VAN WALSUM MANAGEMENT NEW IDENTITY

awaited return of American Mavericks, to appearances by beloved

occurs once a century. Opening on 7 September 2011 with a starFind all concert details and the complete SFS 11-12 Centennial Season calendar here.

live concerts and tours and a full range of ICA over the coming months. ICA’s focus will be on media, such as CD, TV, DVD and live developing performers’ careers worldwide in cooperation Internet streaming.” with trusted partners, expanding the scope of the Projects Wright, who spent 15 years building and and Tours Department and capturing the interest and running IMG Artists Europe, acquired Van imagination of audiences through all forms of audio-visual W a l s u m M a n a g e m e n t i n 2 0 0 8 . media.

International Classical Artists (ICA) Read more on www.icartists.co.uk handles the careers of world-class artists,

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THE BANFF INTERNATIONAL PILOTS COMPETITION

Lully’s Atys (180 min / HD) This year, don’t miss the most acclaimed and most prized jewel of baroque opera, the splendid production of Lully’s Atys staged by JeanMarie Villégier and conducted by William Christie which will revive at

BANFF

Your opportunity to get your project in front of the biggest names and most influential decision makers in the industry! Ready to step into the spotlight?

The competition is open to any completed pilot available for a distribution deal.

(Entered pilots cannot already be commissioned for broadcast, and the rights to the pilot

Paris, Versailles, and New-York. It’s been more than 20 years since Les

must be 100% held by the producer or producers of the project.)

Arts Florissants brought Lully’s Atys to the Opéra Comique and made

Entries to the Pilots Competition are to be submitted online before 1 April 2011 under

the French Baroque all the rage. At the time of this renaissance, there were 80 triumphant performances around the world. Today baroque

one of four categories based on genre: Entertainment – comedy, lifestyle, music, variety, and game shows

opera has entered the consciousness of mainstream opera fans

Documentary – unscripted pilots covering any kind of non-fiction content as well as docu-

everywhere thanks to William Christie and Jean-Marie Villégier.

reality pilots

Seize the opportunity of discovering the splendours of a fabulous staging

Drama – scripted pilots intended to develop into a continuing series, mini-series, soap opera

in HD video with an incredible cast!

For more information, please contact David Reboul at fraprod@fraprod.com.

or telenovela Youth & Children – fiction and non-fiction youth and children's productions targeted at viewers aged 17 and younger Nominated entrants are awarded one free registration to the Banff World Media Festival, taking place on 12 – 15 June 2011 in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The nominated pilots will be featured at a special ceremony during the Festival, which is attended

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For further details and all competition rules and regulations, please visit www.banffmediafestival.com

9TH INTERNATIONAL FRANZ LISZT PIANO COMPETITION 27 MARCH – 9 APRIL 2011 / UTRECHT, NL The Liszt Competition, held every three years in Utrecht, is entirely devoted to the

9TH INTERNATIONAL DANCE, FILM AND MEDIA FESTIVAL CINEDANS: 1 – 4 DECEMBER 2011, AMSTERDAM, NL CALL FOR ENTRIES Cinedans is looking for dance films and videos in various styles that combine choreography and cinematography. They welcome shorts, features, documentaries, stage adaptation, animation, 3d films installations and video clips.

First deadline: 12 May 2011 (Entry fee € 20)

piano music of Franz Liszt. This exclusive approach, its extensive career coaching as well

Final deadline: 26 May 2011 (Entry fee € 25)

as the many international concert engagements for the prize winners has given the Liszt

You can submit your work(s) in the following categories:

Competition a unique profile. During the past twenty-five years, it has developed a reputation as one of the world’s most prestigious music competitions.

In addition to more than € 60,000 in prize money, every prize winner can expect an extensive Career Development Programme, with a national and international tour and

A Camera re-work, stage adaptation: Adaptation of an existing choreography B Screen choreography: Productions with a choreography specifically created for the screen, movement based video clips, experimental films, animation, 3D & fiction

an international CD release. The Liszt Competition will also represent the laureates as

C Documentary: Documentary about a choreographer a dancer or a dance company.

their concert manager for a three-year period.

D One minute dancefilm: 60-seconds-long films with movement, dance and

The 9th edition of the Liszt Competition will be held on 25 March – 9 April 2011.

choreography as main subject.

For a detailed schedule and information on the Quarter Finalists and the Jury, as well as

E Live performance: Multi-camera registration of a dance performance

on the Franz Liszt Piano Competition’s 25th jubilee’s special programme, please visit

For further entry details, please visit http://www.cinedans.net.

the website www.liszt.nl.

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ZKM | INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC AND ACOUSTICS GIGA-HERTZ-AWARD 2011

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Since 2007, the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics, the Freiburg SWR

The ARChive of Contemporary Music, along with Columbia

EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO and the City of Karlsruhe jointly present an annual

University, the Internet Archive and Gracenote, is initiating a series

international award entitled the Giga-Hertz Award for Electronic Music.

of World Music Days, and the first one will be Muslim World

This year, those compositions are to be sponsored the especial foci of which are the

Music Day set for 12 April 2011. They invite artists,

multiple acoustic potential of the piano.

promoters, radio stations, bloggers, journalists, libraries, archives, collectors, cultural organisations, and venues to participate. The goal

The submission deadline of applications for 2011 is 30 April.

is a series of concerts, seminars, lectures, talks and the creation of a

Find further information, all rules and regulations on www.giga-hertz.de !

database of all known recordings and links to all relevant

Walter-Fink Award of the ZKM

information on a global scale. Any and all help is greatly appreciated…

In view of the interactive media of our 21st century, in what ways is it possible to define

On http://arcmmcc.wordpress.com you can find an overview of the

Award for dance, electro-acoustic music and media seeks to supply

project, a list of suggestions for ways people can participate and a

answers…

list of the people and organisations currently planning events.

the relation between dance and contemporary music? The ZKM Walter-Fink

The prize money of € 10,000, will go to the artistic ensemble including composer, choreographer and media artist.

Submission deadline of applications is 31 May 2011.

For further information and conditions of participation, please go to www.fink-preis.de