IMZ Newsletter April 2012 as PDF

NE WS L E T TER A PRIL 2 012 IMZ INTERNAL NEWS • IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2012 - LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES • IMZ GOLDEN PRAGUE PREMIERES 2012 CALL FOR ENTRIES • IMZ FILM SCREENINGS AT CLASSICAL:NEXT • IMZ GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2012 MINUTES ONLINE • IMZ STAFF CHANGES • FOLLOW IMZ ON FACEBOOK

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

NEW PRODUCTIONS • ACCENTUS MUSIC DIE THOMANER • CLASART CLASSICS ORY AND THE OTHER OTELLO • C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT FROM SALZBURG FESTIVAL TO BRITISH POP • EUROARTS EUROPA KONZERT 2012 • WINDROSE WITH SALONEN, REPIN, PIAU, AND THE ORCHESTRA KEYS • POORHOUSE INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF LA BOHÈME NEW APPLICATIONS

• NOT A MEMBER YET? JOIN THE IMZ FAMILY

• MET OPERA ON DEMAND LOOKING FOR PRODUCTION PARTNERS

NEW IN THE IMZ

• BEL AIR MEDIA THE DRUMS OF KODO

• ALESSANDRO SDRIGOTTI

FESTIVAL NEWS

• MSM STUDIOS

• 49TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE WEBSITE LAUNCH

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IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2012

• SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY 2012-13 SEASON LAURELS – PRIZES AND PRAISES

LAST CALL FOR ENTRY

• EUROARTS AWARDED AT FIFA • THE METROPOLITAN OPERA 2012 NATIONAL COUNCIL AUDITIONS WINNERS PERSONNEL NEWS • MIKURI TAKAHASHI LEAVING NHK

Don’t miss 13 April – the final deadline for entries to the 11th IMZ-organised World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX. Any recently produced world music programmes that have not been presented at WOMEX before can be submitted.

We are looking for undeniable cinematic quality – a film that grabs and moves, with an

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intriguing storyline, dramatic composition, strong visuals and first-rate camera work.

We welcome new, unheard, unseen subjects and niches as well as established artists.

And then, of course, there is the quality of the music itself…

Have a look at the General Information Sheet for the application conditions.

Please note that we collect a submission fee of €60 per programme for non-IMZ members as well as a handling fee of €150 for the programmes selected for the screenings. Or submit your programme right away ...

As usual, the selected entries may also become part of our “World music film on Tour” non-profit distribution project.

For personal support, please contact Tatiana Petkova

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IMZ FILM SCREENINGS AT CLASSICAL:NEXT

„GOLDEN PRAGUE PREMIERES“ CALL FOR ENTRY IMZ and ITF Golden Prague are happy to announce that the 49th edition of the ITF Golden Prague, is taking place on 13 – 17 October 2012 at Žofín Palace, Prague.

The date is approaching for the IMZ film screenings at Classical:NEXT! Two days of screenings, 8 films in full length… Take a look at the programme here!

“Golden Prague Premieres 2012”

The screenings are scheduled for 31 May and 1 June, 04:00 – 08:00 p.m.,

The successful Golden Prague Premiers will be continued this year!

and are open to both Classical:NEXT delegates as well to non-business audience.

We are happy to offer two screening slots - “Golden Prague Premieres

For those who wish to meet us, don’t hesitate to visit us at the IMZ stand

2012”:

number 13.

On Sunday afternoon, IMZ members will have the possibility to present their

All IMZ members can register under the "company additional"-rate, just write

latest programme to the professional audience of the festival. For the “Golden

"IMZ MEMBER" on your registration form.

Prague Premieres 2012” we are looking for music and dance television

What’s it about?

programmes and films, which have not had their premiere yet!

From 30 May to 2 June 2012, international professionals from all sectors of the

Deadline for submitting programmes: 31 May 2012 For further information, please contact Daniela Billner at the IMZ office or download the application form!

classical music business will gather at Gasteig in Munich for the first edition of Classical:NEXT – a new annual event with the aim to create cross-sector networks and to find new solutions for the future challenges of classical music.

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STAFF CHANGES

IMZ GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2012

And yet another – temporary – change in the IMZ office has to be announced:

Minutes Online

Office Manager Birgit Baresch will also face a new and wonderful

As every year, the IMZ held its General Assembly at MIDEM 2012. Those who

will be on maternity leave and planning to work part time within the IMZ family

didn’t have the chance to attend can now take a look at the minutes online in

in 2013. In the meantime her agenda will be taken over by the IMZ staff including

the members’ area of the IMZ website.

a further new member: Katharina Leissing.

challenge in her live as she is expecting her first baby in June. From 23 April she

Katharina, a passionate skier and snowboarder, cultivated her skills in the humanities at Universität Wien where she graduated in Comparative Literary Studies and International Development Studies, at the Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, and at Universidad de Granada where she studied Spanish Literature. She worked as German instructor at the AIS – American International School Vienna and has gained work experience in event management, PR and media during practicals in the culture sector. You may address her in German, English, Spanish or French…

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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

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Few good reasons to join:

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

• To connect with producers and broadcasters worldwide

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

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

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

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

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

• To find out what particularly works with the various audiences

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

• 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

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

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

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

See all benefits and Membership Categories

and dance business, you also strengthen the IMZ´s impact on the development of the audiovisual music and dance industry.

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

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Morricone, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Teatro Regio di Parma, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Kronos Quartett, Lang Lang… www.alessandrosdrigotti.eu info@alessandrosdrigotti.eu

ALESSANDRO SDRIGOTTI New Individual Member of the IMZ

MSM STUDIOS

Alessandro Sdrigotti is a classical recording producer and sound engineer.

New Full Member of the IMZ

After graduating at the Conservatory of Udine (Bassoon) and acquiring a sound engineer Diploma, he started his career in the world of classical music

Founded by Stefan Bock in 1991, msm-studios, Munich established themselves as a

with several CD and DVD recordings for labels including the Universal group,

premium service provider for audio/video post-production and Blu-ray/3D Blu-ray/

Gramola, Naxos, Sony Classica, Arthaus Musik, RAI Trade.

DVD authoring. With all engineers having enjoyed professional musical training,

As sound engineer he gained experience at the festivals Sferisterio Macerata,

msm-studios have a comprehensive understanding and the right sensitivity for

Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Mahler Wochen in Toblach, Ravenna Festival

music and also film productions. With a state-of-the art architecture, msm-studios

as well as at the International Composer Competition "Strumenti di pace",

guarantee for a seamless, integrated workflow between frame rate conversion,

the Busoni International Piano competition and the Schumann Chopin Festival

editing, colour grading, video effects, audio mixing & editing and media authoring.

in Milan. He has been involved in many discographic projects, as editing engineer, recording engineer, mixing engineer, and recording producer and has

Many major players as well as indies have laid their work in the trusted hands of

worked for live broadcast opera events from Teatro "La Fenice" in Venice, from Teatro Real de Madrid, and from Arena di Verona (for SKY Classica).

productions of all genres featuring the Metropolitan Opera, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maria Callas, Joyce DiDonato,

Among the many noted artists with whom Alessandro Sdrigotti has

Renée Fleming, Natalie Dessay, Cecilia Bartoli, David Garrett, Joan Diego Flórez,

collaborated are Roberto Benigni, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Ennio

Patricia Petibon, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, Friedrich Gulda, Nigel Kennedy,

msm-studios over the last 20+ years. Among the references are to be found

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IMZ MEMBER NEWS Ennio Morricone, Lang Lang, Hilary Hahn, John McLaughlin, Chet Baker, Paul McCartney, Bob Marley, Brian Ferry, Seal, Falco, Quadro Nuevo, Hubert von

ACCENTUS MUSIC Saint Matthew Passion To Mark The 800th Anniversary Of The St. Thomas Boys Choir

Goisern, Die Ärzte and many others. The list of label clients includes amongst others Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Harmonia Mundi, EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, Warner Classics or ECM. Recently, msm-studios have been commisioned to colour-grade and edit Music in the Air, a 50th-anniversary celebration of the International Music + Media Centre (IMZ), an audio-visual "musée imaginaire" and journey through the history of mainly classical music on television.

Find more information on www.msm-studios.com.

St. Thomas Church Leipzig | Holy Thursday & Good Friday 2012 ACCENTUS Music is producing Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the most significant musical event of the 800th anniversary celebration of the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig in 2012. The concert in St. Thomas Church will be performed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the St. Thomas Boys Choir, and team of acclaimed soloists. The conductor is St. Thomas Cantor Georg Christoph Biller.

A Production of ACCENTUS Music, in co-operation with NHK, MDR and ARTE Die Thomaner© M. Knoch / ACCENTUS Music

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In the Zurich Opera’s new staging of Otello ossia il moro di Venezia, also directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier, Cecilia Bartoli gives a further, eagerly awaited Rossini role début. Only rarely does Rossini’s Otello make it onto the operatic stage today. After all, the cast alone demands three exceptional Die Thomaner – In Cinemas For 7 Weeks The ACCENTUS Music documentary film Die Thomaner has been shown in

tenors – an attribute that applies to John Osborn, Javier Camarena and Edgardo Rocha, who can be heard in the new Zurich production.

cinemas for 7 weeks now: in more than 40 cities in Germany. Viewing figures of

In both operas, which are now available for TV, widely admired Rossini

50,000 have placed the film in the Top 10 of the Arthouse-Charts! More

interpreter Muhai Tang conducts the Zurich Opera’s early-music ensemble “La

information on www.thomaner-derfilm.de

Scintilla”.

CLASART CLASSIC

Clasart Classic’s collaboration with Cecilia Bartoli will be continued in May 2012 with the recording and ARTE live transmission of

Starring Cecilia Bartoli

Handel’s Baroque opera

With two outstanding productions from the Zurich Opera House, Clasart

Giulio Cesare at Salzburg

Classic deepens its close cooperation with Cecilia Bartoli and, at the same time,

Whitsun Festival.

honours Gioachino Rossini, whose 220th birthday is celebrated this year.

For further information,

In Moshe Leiser’s and Patrice Caurier’s new production of Le Comte Ory, the

please

campaign of the love-crazed Count Ory who intends to take advantage of the

Katja.Raths@tmg.de or

absence of many of the country’s husbands due to war, takes place in the prim France of the early sixties. Everything in this sparkling opera is masquerade and a

contact

Katharina.Biro@tmg.de.

Le Comte Ory

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IMZ MEMBER NEWS C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT From Salzburg Festival to British Pop Salzburg Festival 2012 Presented by UNITEL CLASSICA And C Major Entertainment

schools, the scene's love affair with fashion and the pivotal role of the starmakers and svengalis who invented the rules of the modern music industry as they went along…

Written and directed by Simon Witter and Hannes Rossacher; Length: 4 x 52’; A Kobalt production for ARTE Television; TV distribution: C Major Entertainment

Joan Baez – How Sweet the Sound

UNITEL CLASSICA proudly presents the Salzburg Festival 2012. As the exclusive audiovisual partner of the Salzburg Festival, UNITEL CLASSICA will produce – in co-production with ORF, ZDF, 3sat, Arte and NHK – the highlights of this year’s festival, including Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Puccini’s La Bohème (starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala) as well as concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons … Live signals will be available!

Please contact C Major Entertainment for the full line-up of the scheduled productions.

In the first comprehensive film to chronicle the private life and public career of Joan Baez, Thirteen’s American Masters documentary Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound examines her history as a recording artist and performer as well as her remarkable journey as the conscience of a generation…

TV Director: Mary Wharton; Production: RAZOR & TIE in co-production with THIRTEEN in association

London Calling – The Untold Story of British Pop

with WNET.ORG; Length: 58’ / 84’; TV distribution:

For a tiny island, Britain has punched way above its weight in the creative arena for

C Major Entertainment

the last 50 years, unleashing wave upon wave of musical innovation and producing

www.cmajor-entertainment.com

idiosyncratic style icons who shaped the course of popular music. The series London Calling tells the story of British pop music through the prism of related art

Joan Baez© Razor&Tie

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New On DVD & Blu-ray Disc

EUROARTS Europa Konzert 2012 from Vienna Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 11 a.m. CET Live signal available!

Live recording from Spanische Hofreitschule (Spanish Riding School) in Vienna/Austria

Gautier Capuçon cello · Berliner Philharmoniker · Gustavo Dudamel conductor

The EuroArts April Highlights

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B flat Major, op. 56a

Berliner Philharmoniker: Daniel Barenboim plays Mozart's Piano

Haydn: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in C Major

Concertos Nos. 20 – 27 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Recorded in 1992,

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67

remastered from 35mm film. A release on EuroArts’ new sub-label “Recorded

Every year the Berliner Philharmoniker commemorate their founding in 1883 with the

Excellence – Historical Value”.

Europa Konzert at a venue of cultural importance in a different European city. This

Salvatore Sciarrino: Luci Mie Traditrici

year the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of internationally acclaimed conductor Gustavo Dudamel welcome one of the world's leading young cellists,

Nina Tarandek · Roland Schneider · Simon Bode · Christian Miedl · Ensemble Algoritmo · Marco Angius. Staged by Christian Pade. From the Cantiere

Gautier Capuçon.

Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano 2010.

Length: approx. 120’; HD; Progr.: 5895

Menahem Pressler – Piano Recital on DVD and Blu-ray Disc

TV Director: Henning Kasten; Produced by EuroArts Music in co-production with RBB/

www.euroarts.com

ARD.

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Repin, the worldwide virtuoso violinist, performs the Symphonie espagnole by Edouard Lalo.

WINDROSE Windrose is proud to present a wide variety of new programmes…

For its 20th edition, the Presences Festival paid a tribute to the

In The Vagaries of Love, Sandrine Piau and Detlef Roth sing arias from four Mozart masterpieces: Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte. With the Radio France Philarmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Labadie.

conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen at

To respond to the growing enthusiasm for music educational programmes,

the Théâtre du Châtelet.

Windrose is glad to present three new episodes of The Orchestra keys with

The performance allows

Jean-Francois Zygel (produced by Camera lucida) explaining The Italian by

to rediscover a selection

Mendelssohn, Romeo & Juliet by Prokofiev, and the Brahms Symphonies in the fun

Esa-Pekka Salonen

of his compositions as well as his innovative direction of 20th-century masterpieces, such as Requiem by Ligeti or Amériques by Varese. A joyful documentary portraying the composer and

way…

conductor accompanies this retrospective of his work.

Last but not least, the association fran:cultures organised a visit and a memory

Impressions of Italy: The renowned Radio France Philarmonic Orchestra led

mezzo-soprano Nena Venetsanou – in the concentration camp of

by Myung Wung Chung plays two major classical works from the 19th century: The Italian by Mendelssohn and Guillaume Tell’s Opening by Rossini.

Also conducted by Myung Wung Chung with the same orchestra, Vadim

concert for international teenagers – with conductor Anastasios Strikos and Mauthausen:Your girls from Mauthausen (19’).

For more information, please contact Pauline Mazenod www.windrose.fr

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history. New content will be added monthly, including recent Live in HD transmissions featuring the biggest stars of today’s opera world. Live in HD titles will be added to the service two to three

World-wide distribution of La Bohème After the great success with Stefan Herheim's Onegin from DNO Poorhouse International is pleased to announce a world-wide distribution deal with Nordic Stories for Herheim's highly acclaimed La Bohème from the new Oslo Opera

months after their premiere in movie theaters. A subscription is required to access streaming content, with plans beginning at $14.99 a month.

House starring Marita Sølberg as Mimi. This is what the press had to say: „Historic. Opera doesn’t get better than Friday’s premiere of Stefan Herheim’s La Bohème“ (Ballade)

NEW APPLICATIONS The Metropolitan Opera Launches State-of-the-Art New iPad App The Metropolitan Opera has released Met Opera on Demand, a new app for the iPad® that allows unlimited streaming access to video transmissions from the company’s award-winning Live in HD series, plus hundreds of historic TV and radio broadcasts. The free app, available for download from the App StoreSM, will give opera lovers around the world mobile access to high-quality audio and video streams of hundreds of performances from the Met’s 81-year broadcast

“We want opera to be as widely available as technology permits,” said the Met’s General Manager Peter Gelb. “With its superb video and audio quality, our iPad app should appeal to neophytes as well as the aficionados who would like to relive every expertly delivered high C.”

Met Opera on Demand replaces the Met’s previous streaming service, Met Player.

For more information, including an online catalogue of offerings and details on subscription packages, please visit www.metoperaondemand.org.

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Delivery: end of 2012 Broadcast: ARTE

LOOKING FOR PRODUCTION PARTNERS

Producer: Bel Air Media – 51 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau – 75001 Paris.

Bel Air Media The Drums of Kodo For the first time since its creation in 1970 KODO, the company of Japanese

© Shinji Minami

drummers, has accepted to take part in a major television documentary. KODO drums are one of the most spectacular expressions of the Japanese culture. The twenty drummers of the company are currently on tour in Europe and in U.S.A, with each performance getting enthusiastic reviews.

Film director Don Kent will realise a film which will show the daily life of the future artists of KODO on Sado Island during a severe apprenticeship of three years. Sado Island is a wonderful location where the students of Kodo live in an intimate harmony with nature. How to play drums, how to cook food, how to make a bowl, how to cut fish, how to grow rice, how to perform a tea ceremony… Studying at KODO school is not only an artistic apprenticeship but

Bel Air Media is looking for international co-producers. If you are interested in joining in, please contact Patricia Houtart

FESTIVAL NEWS 49th ITF Golden Prague 13 – 17 October 2012 | Zofin Palace, Prague The new ITF Golden Prague website has been launched:

also an apprenticeship of life and philosophy.

View the statutes, entry forms and all other relevant information here.

Director: Don Kent Author: Christian Dumais-Lvowski

Enter your programme here

Duration: 52 minutes

complete the online programme entry form. So before filling out the form, get the

Format: HD

photo ready…

Please note that you have to upload a printable photo of the programme to

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STAGE NEWS

Categories:

San Francisco Symphony

1) Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance

The 101st Season

2) Performing Arts (Recordings of opera, operetta, musicals, dance, ballet,

The 101st Season

concerts, etc.)

Conditions: Only programmes produced after 15 April 2011 will be accepted for competition.

Maximum number of programmes per entrant: 5 Maximum total length of all programmes entered by a single entrant: unlimited Minimum length of each programme: 5 minutes

On 5 March 2012, The San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas announced their 2012-13 season concert programmes and

Deadlines:

events, outlining an

Entry forms deadline: 15 May 2012

adventurous elevenKhatia Buniatishvili © E Haase month season marked by signature concerts and staged productions that expand

Programmes submission deadline: 31 May 2012 Personal registration deadline: 15 September 2012 The ITF GP team is looking forward to presenting your programmes in Prague!

the boundaries of the orchestral concert experience. The Orchestra’s first season in its second century combines a commitment to new and rarely heard music with in-depth explorations of core repertoire and composers, offering audiences added context and connections to the music performed.

Find a complete concert calendar here.

Highlights include explorations of music by Stravinsky and Beethoven, tracing both composers’ early musical influences and ideas from rarely performed pieces

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LAURELS - PRIZES AND PRAISES

forward through their later, well-known works. Michael Tilson Thomas will create

EuroArts

original, staged concert productions around Grieg’s Peer Gynt and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with video elements, and lead the first-ever concert performances by an orchestra of Bernstein’s complete music for West Side Story. The Orchestra premieres new works by contemporary composers, including Jörg Widmann, Robin Holloway, Samuel Carl Adams, and Mark Volkert.

LA SPIRA – Awarded At FIFA The documentary Carlos Kleiber – Traces to nowhere, the first film about the legendary conductor, wins the International Croduced by Servus TV and published on DVD and Blu-ray Disc by Arthaus Musik.

To view The SFS 2012-13 Season At A Glance, click here. www.sfsymphony.org Find out more about this extraordinary conductor-less project!

FIFA© Giancarlo Pradelli

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radio stations across the United States.

Metropolitan Opera Announces 2012 National Council Auditions Winners

Nearly 1,500 singers between the ages of 20 and 30 participated in this year’s auditions, which are held annually in 41 districts and 14 regions throughout the © Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera

United States and Canada and are sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera

From left to right: 2012 National Council Audition Winners Andrey Nemzer, Margaret Mezzacappa, Janai Brugger, Matthew Grills, and Anthony Clark Evans.

the long tradition associated with them, the Metropolitan Opera National

National Council. Given the reach of the auditions, the number of applicants, and Council Auditions are considered the most prestigious competition in North America for singers seeking to launch an operatic career. During a typical opera season, over one hundred alumni of the Auditions are on the Met roster…

In 2007, the National Council Audition process was captured in an acclaimed documentary, The Audition, which was shown on PBS and released on DVD. www.metopera.org

Five young singers win $15,000 cash prizes in the prestigious competition that has launched the careers of numerous major opera stars.

On 18 March, The Metropolitan Opera announced the winners of the 2012 National Council Auditions. They are: Janai Brugger, soprano from Darien, IL; Anthony Clark Evans, baritone from Owensboro, KY; Matthew Grills, tenor from Newtown, CT; Margaret Mezzacappa, mezzo-soprano from Euclid, OH; and Andrey Nemzer, countertenor from Moscow, Russia. The winners were selected from nine finalists who performed arias with the Met Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis.

PERSONNEL NEWS Mikuri Takahashi Leaving NHK Ms. Mikuri Takahashi, the assistant to Mr. Masayuki Ikeno at Classic Programme Co-Production, left NHK on 16 March, after supporting and contributing to the team for 13 years. She is on her way to her new career at one of NHK’s affiliates, starting from April. Thank you all for your warm support to Mikuri for the past years and please join us welcoming Yuka Chikaraishi, who is taking over.

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Deadline for the Secretariat of the 2005 Convention to receive funding applications from National Commissions or INGOs is 30 June 2012 (midnight CET).

International Fund for Cultural Diversity

Notification of funding decisions: December 2012

Call for Funding Requests

For more details, please refer to the IFCD website

On 14 March 2012, the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) launched its third call for funding requests for programmes/projects and preparatory assistance requests that aim to foster the emergence of a dynamic cultural sector at the national and/or local level, primarily through activities facilitating the introduction of new cultural policies and cultural industries, or strengthening existing ones.

IFCD.Convention2005@unesco.org

Government authorities and NGOs from developing countries that are Parties to the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, as well as international NGOs (INGOs), are eligible to apply.

Currently, the IFCD is providing close to US$ 3 million in funding for 48 projects in 35 developing countries, covering a wide range of areas, from the development and implementation of cultural policies, to capacity-building of cultural entrepreneurs, mapping of cultural industries and the creation of new cultural industry business models.

Contact:

For more information on the IFCD application process, please refer to: Explanatory note on the IFCD Eligible developing countries Eligible programmes/projects, and preparatory assistance requests Application procedure, criteria, deadlines and forms Frequently asked questions about the IFCD application process

N EWSLE T TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS Beethovenfest Bonn 2012

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen – Orchestra in Residence since 2004 – give two concerts.

The London Symphony Orchestra return to Beethovenfest Bonn as the third Orchestra in Residence with Michael Tilson Thomas making his debut at the festival.

7 September – 7 October 2012 Art has a Mind of its Own Just some of the highlights…

To mark the London 2012 Olympics, Esa-Pekka Salonen makes his B e e t h o ve n f e s t d e b u t w i t h t h e Philharmonia Orchestra performing an e x c l u s i ve c o m p l e t e B e e t h o ve n symphony cycle; the Beethoven works w i l l b e i n t e r s p e r s e d w i t h fi ve contemporary compositions, one from each of the five continents.

András Schiff begins a two-year complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle.

The Borodin Quartet begins a three-year complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle.

In the Bird Cage marks the centenary of John Cage’s birth with an exclusive Cage Night in three venues in Bonn’s “museum mile”.

Top orchestras return to Bonn, including Andris Nelsons and the City of B i r m i n g h a m S y m p h o n y O rc h e s t ra a n d B a ye ri s c h e s Staatsorchester with Kent Nagano as well as internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles including Viviane Hagner, Lisa Batiashvili, Susan Graham, Emanual Ax and Kit Armstrong, the Artemis Quartet, the King’s Singers and Samy Deluxe & Tsunami Band.

Two youth orchestras perform at Beethovenfest Bonn for the first time: the Turkish National Youth (Philharmonic Orchestra with Cem Mansur) and the third orchestra from the Venezuelan ‘Sistema’ – the Youth Orchestra of Caracas with Dietrich Paredes and Andrés Rivas.

For the full programme with 68 events, see the festival’s website www.beethovenfest.de!

N EWSLE T TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS Atelier for Young Festival Managers LJUBLJANA 2012, 14 – 21 October 2012 Call for Application The Atelier for Young Festival Managers is an intense, rigorous 7 days training programme addressed at emerging artistic festival directors worldwide. Initiated by the European Festivals Association (EFA), the fifth Atelier will be hosted and co-organised by the Ljubljana Festival from 14 – 21 October 2012. It will bring together 45 young festival managers and around ten renowned festival directors from all over the world.

Applications have to be submitted until 31 May 2012.

“The Atelier for Young Festival Managers is about formulating experiences and passing on knowledge to a next generation of festival makers: knowledge about programming a festival, thematically focusing on the very essence of arts festivals – the art and the artist,” explains Atelier Coordinator Hugo De Greef.

The Atelier LJUBLJANA 2012 follows the guiding motto “The true role of a festival is to help artists to dare, to engage in new projects”, a phrase coined by Bernard Faivre d’Arcier, former director of the Festival d’Avignon, President of the Lyon Biennial and one of the Atelier’s Mentors since the first edition in 2006.

Find the complete Call for Application including the selection criteria, the Application Form, and all the information about the Atelier here.

For further questions, please contact atelier@efa-aef.eu.