IMZ Newsletter June 2011 as PDF

NE WSLE T T ER JU NE 2011 • ZDFKULTUR REFLECTING A NEW WAY OF LIFE

IMZ INTERNAL NEWS • EBU-IMZ PITCHING SESSION AT GOLDEN PRAGUE

• WHAT’S ON… ZDF IN JUNE

• WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR

• SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY FANFARE FOR A NEW CENTURY

• DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR RELAUNCHED

• THE METROPOLITAN OPERA SUMMER HD ENCORES

• VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN JEKATERINBURG & MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN BUCHAREST 2011

• QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VOICE COMPETITION THE LAUREATES

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

• ARTE FRANCE FAREWELL TO GABRIELLE BABIN GUGENHEIM

• THE 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE UPDATE • CLASART CLASSIC PRESENTING THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA • C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT MAHLER, FAUST, AND EASY RIDER • EUROARTS A MUSICAL JOURNEY IN 3D • ACCENTUS LAURELS AND THE LATEST LISZT • ORF CONTENT-SALES INTERNATIONAL THE INFERNAL COMEDY

RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS • WOMEX 11 SMART RATE DEADLINE • EUROPEAN MUSIC COUNCIL MANIFESTO FOR YOUTH AND MUSIC IN EUROPE

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 A N D J O I N U S O N FAC E B O O K

N EWSLE T TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS EBU-IMZ PITCHING SESSION AT GOLDEN PRAGUE PITCH YOUR BEST IDEAS AT THE JOINT EBU-IMZ PITCHING SESSION AT GOLDEN PRAGUE (OCTOBER 15 – 19, 2011)

Big, bold imaginative music and dance events with multi-media components are the way to find big

All EBU and IMZ members – public

than three A4 pages to Katharina Jeschke and Nicole

broadcasting companies, production as well as

Jeanrenaud.

distribution companies, programme buyers, DVD

Deadline for submissions: June 30th, 2011.

labels, artist managers, filmmakers et al. are invited to submit their proposals.

In particular, we are looking for projects/events related to:

audiences and make a big impact.

• A major cultural event in 2012

The EBU - European Broadcasting Union - and the

• The big three anniversaries in 2013 – Wagner, Verdi and Benjamin Britten

IMZ have once again decided to join forces to promote and strengthen the arts in the audiovisual media!

The two partners are looking forward to setting up at least one new original project/event

• The centenary of the outbreak of World War I in 2014 • other ambitious events, aimed at prime time international audiences.

every year, from 2012 to 2014, aimed at prime time international audiences, which will be offered to

All proposed projects must have in principle the

all members within the EBU and the IMZ.

guaranteed budget of at least 50%.

To do this we need your ideas and therefore we are organising a joint Pitching Session to be held at the Golden Prague Festival.

support of at least one EBU member or a

Please make sure that your proposal includes at least the following information: • A project description and the envisaged broadcasting format(s) • Supporting broadcaster(s) and all other partners involved/ interested so far • An estimation of the total budget and the funding already secured • Short information about yourself / your company (if you are not a broadcaster).

A pre-selection commitee will have chosen the projects which will be pitched by 1st September 2011

If you want to present your project(s)/production(s)

Practical information about the pitching session will

at the EBU – IMZ Pitching Session, please send your

follow in due course.

proposal as a Word document or PDF of not more

N EWSL ET TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR With the MAAILMAKÜLA – Global Village Festival behind us, and

VIENNA MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN YEKATERINBURG & MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL IN BUCHAREST

the 27th Music Meeting Festival ahead of us, there are some busy

The IMZ is happy to announce that it has cooperated yet another year with music

days full of world music…

film festivals in Jekaterinburg and Bucharest, organising their music film-

Do’t miss out on the Water Music Summer Open Air Festival and

programmes.

the Fordefestival – all coming up this summer.

The Music Film Festival in Bucharest will take place from 11 to 18 June

Join us at World Music Films on Tour and spread the music around!

2011 at the George Enescu Square.

The Vienna Music Film Festival in Yekaterinburg will take place from 24 June to 3 July 2011 in front of the Ural Federal University.

DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR RELAUNCHED

Both festivals will be open air, free of charge and combined with a food and beverage area following the concept of the Rathausplatz Filmfestival in Vienna.

“Life may not be the party that we hoped for… But while we’re here, we should dance.” (unknown) Dance your way to our brand new dance screen on Tour Youtube Channel, and be the first to book one – or all – of our exciting 35 videos on the re-launched screening programme!

For more information, please contact Orly Schwartzman.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS THE 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE UPDATE

introduces the Russian television station TV Kultura and the British BBC Television.

CLASART CLASSIC

Recorded during concerts on 11 and 12 August 2010 at the Orchestra’s home,

TWO NEW RECORDINGS RELEASED INTERNATIONALLY

Severance Hall in Cleveland, this is the

www.festivalgoldenprague.cz

The Bruckner DVD by Franz

Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst

The ITF Golden Prague Team is looking

Welser-Möst and The Cleveland

performing Bruckner’s music in historic

Orchestra at Severance Hall is

venues. Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5

the fourth in a series filmed in historic

was recorded at St. Florian Cathedral in

venues.

Linz, Austria and the Symphony No.

The 1887 revised version of Bruckner’s

9 at the Musikverein concert hall in

Symphony No. 8 edited by Leopold

Vienna. Symphony No. 7 was also

Nowak is paired with a bonus concert

recorded at Severance Hall.

preview discussion by Franz WelserMöst and video director William Cosel

include a personal meeting with

The Bruckner Symphony No. 8 recording is distributed by ARTHAUS

hosted by ideastream® producer Dee

choreographer and dancer Angelin

Music and NAXOS.

Perry.

15 – 19 October 2011 / Zofin Palace, Prague The deadline for entries to the competition closed on 31 May 2011.

Please submit your tapes and other

Read

more

on

forward to seeing you in Prague!

material as soon as possible if you have

Deadline for personal

not done so already. In case you still

registration: 15 September

have a production to enter, please

2011

contact the ITF GP team. There might

Entry forms available here.

be the possibility of a post-nomination!

The highlights of the festival

Preljocaj and his work in the cycle Tribute to… Other Tributes to present director Christopher Nupen and the world of Amercian dance legend Alvin Ailey. The Focus on... cycle

(Registration is free of charge and allows access to all festival events.)

fourth DVD in a series featuring the

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS CLASART CLASSIC

T h e t e l ev i s i o n p ro g r a m m e a n d recording celebrate several milestones,

The new Mahler DVD marks

including Pierre Boulez’ 85th birthday

Pierre Boulez’ 24th recording

and the 45th anniversary year of his

with The Cleveland Orchestra.

debut with The Cleveland Orchestra;

A 90-minute high-definition DVD of

the 150th anniversary of Mahler’s birth

Pierre Boulez conducting The Cleveland

(2010), and the 100th anniversary of his

Orchestra in works of Mahler, produced

death (2011).

with international co-production

For more information, please contact

p a r t n e r s A RT E a n d D e u t s c h e

Katja Raths

Grammophon, has just been released by ACCENTUS Music. The programme, directed by William Cosel, was taped during live performances presented in February 2010 at Severance Hall. It i n c l u d e s M a h l e r ’s A d a g i o f ro m

C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT

www.cmajor-entertainment.com

RCO Mahler Cycle Continued Wi t h L i ve Tra n s m i s s i o n o f Mahler’s Ninth After the two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam is now presenting a special two-season Mahler series including ten large-scale symphonies, plus Das Lied von der Erde,

© CMajor Entertainment

performed in chronological order by the world’s greatest orchestra under the direction of divers conductors like Mariss Jansons, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Pierre Boulez.

Symphony No. 10 and Des Knaben

As one of the last works of this cycle, the

Wunderhorn, songs for voice and

Symphony No. 9, under the direction of

orchestra, with vocal soloists Magdalena

Bernard Haitink, was recorded and

Kožená, mezzo-soprano, and Christian

broadcasted live on Sunday 15 May by 3

Gerhaher, baritone.

SAT and AVRO Netherlands. The full cycle will be postproduced by June/July 2011.

© CMajor Entertainment

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS Celebrating The 200th Birthday Of Franz Liszt Under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden performed a special Franz Liszt memorial concert at the Semperoper in Dresden. To commemorate the 200th anniversary year of one of the romantic era’s greatest musicians, the orchestra presents a Faust-themed concert that opens with Richard Wagner’s early Overture to Faust in D minor (1855 version) before leading into Franz Liszt’s symphonic masterpiece A Faust Symphony (1857 version).

Still Searching For America…

On The Trail Of Easy Rider

issues resonate with the America of

For the TV audience, Hannes Rossacher

scenes from the original movie and are

and Simon Witter retraced the route of

carried by music in the spirit of Easy

the original Easy Rider adventure – a

Rider. Featuring a. o. Dennis Hopper, Peter

route designed to slice through a variety

Fonda and Peter Coyote. A production of

of social strata – and find out how its

Studio TV for ARTE and ZDF Kultur.

2010. All 4 episodes, 60 min. each, contain

A production of UNITEL in cooperation with Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and CLASSICA.

© CMajor Entertainment

© CMajor Entertainment

www.cmajor-entertainment.com © CMajor Entertainment

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NEW RELEASES ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: DVD

WALDBÜHNE BERLIN 2011

EUROARTS

Mozart: Da Ponte Operas

Berliner Philharmoniker – Riccardo

CINEMA RELEASE OF FIRST 3D CONCERT FILM

Chailly

Claus Guth’s celebrated Mozart/ Da Ponte opera trilogy at the

Berliner Philharmoniker – A Musical Journey in 3D

Saturday, 2 July 2011, 08:15 pm CET – live signal available

Salzburg Festival for the first time in one DVD box set!

According to the motto Fellini, Jazz & Co. the

Va ri a t i o n s : B a re n b o i m

Speaking to The Guardian, Stanley Dodds, a member of the Berlin Philharmonic, said: "Nothing of its kind has ever been

Berliner Philharmoniker perform works by

(Beethoven: Diabelli Variations),

Shostakovich, Rota and Respighi at their

Bronfma n (Brahms: Handel

done before. It gives the feeling of being in an orchestra. When

famous annual open-air concert.

Variations), Schiff (Bach: Goldberg

Duration: approx. 100’; HD; Progr. no: 5840

Variations)

Produced by: EuroArts Music, in co-

BLU-RAY

production with RBB, NHK and SMG

Mozart: Great Mass – A

premiered with great success in UK in more than 100 cinemas on 9 May. The film will be released in cinemas worldwide in 2011.

you see the winding tubes of a horn, or a very nice old Italian violin in 3D, you feel you could touch it.” www.euroarts.com

Ballet by Uwe Scholz One of the most impressive works of this important neoclassical choreographer.

Ma rtha Argerich at the Verbier Festival Works by Beethoven, Scarlatti and © Context tv (detail)

Shostakovich.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS sound”, stating that “no one

DANIEL BARENBOIM, PIERRE BOULEZ & STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN

LAURELS FOR MAHLER 9

will want to deprive

ACCENTUS Music presents…

themselves of such a radical

ACCENTUS Music is proud

experience”.

The recording of the concert Staatskapelle Berlin,

ACCENTUS MUSIC

to announce that its DVD and Blu-ray production of Claudio Abbado and Lucerne Festival

and “transparency of

ORF CONTENT-SALES INTERNATIONAL PROUDLY PRESENTS…

The comeback of The Infernal Comedy

Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez, honorary

The theatre production starring John Malkovich

This particular release has

conductor of the orchestra, will hold at Philharmonie

is going back on tour this summer, covering

also been elected

Essen on 9 and 10 June 2011.

countries such as Austria, Czech Republic, Poland,

G r a m o p h o n e

Music by two great composers of the 19th century,

Magazine’s DVD and

United Kingdom and Russia.

The tour dates:

Blu-ray of the month

Ferenc Liszt and Richard Wagner, will be combined in one concert: two superb orchestral

in the June 2011 edition.

BBC Music Magazine

works – Faust Overture and Siegfried Idyll – by

awarded the recording five

and 2.

5 June 2011: Warsaw

Featuring Daniel Barenboim as pianist, and the

17 June 2011: Barbican Theater (London)

Staatskapelle Berlin under the baton of Pierre

18 June 2011: Barbican Theater (London)

magazine praised the

Boulez, this event promises to be a very special

“fluidity of interpretation”

musical highlight of the Liszt year 2011…

30 June 2011: Ronacher Theater Vienna

Orchestra performing Ma hler’s Symphony No. 9 has been awarded a p re s t i g i o u s D i a p a s o n d’Or in the June 2011 e d i t i o n o f t h e F re n c h magazine Diapason. The

stars: “Finest concert DVD ever? I think so.”

Richard Wagner and Liszt’s Piano Concerts No. 1

An HD production by ACCENTUS Music in coproduction with ZDF/arte.

For more information, please contact Ulrike Gratz

2 June 2011: Prague Spring Festival 4 June 2011: Lodz

1 July 2011: Ronacher Theater Vienna 10 July 2011: St. Petersburg 17 September 2011: Cyprus (see next page)

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS ORF CONTENT-SALES INTERNATIONAL PROUDLY PRESENTS…

The comeback of The Infernal Comedy For those who are unable to attend the live performances, ORF gladly presents the live recording of The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer from Vienna Ronacher Theater and the making-of Inside the Infernal Comedy: The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer (Ronacher Theater,Vienna July 2009) – 102 min.

Discover the world of Jack Unterweger (John Malkovich), a notorious womanizer who is suspected of killing a large number of prostitutes in Vienna, Graz, Prague and Los Angeles. Join us on the journey of a convicted murderer and his various encounters, accompanied by beautiful music by Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Inside the Infernal Comedy – 43 min.

© Olga Martschitsch

Go behind the scenes of this musical theatre piece for Baroque orchestra! Not only does this production offer you insights into the rehearsals, it also gives you background information on Jack Unterweger; as well as valuable opinions given by Michael Sturminger and Martin Haselböck, the masterminds behind this successful production.

Both productions are offered in high definition formats.

If you are interested, please contact marion.camus-oberdorfer@orf.at http://contentsales.orf.at http://enterprise.orf.at/footage © Olga Martschitsch

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS ZDFKULTUR

WHAT‘S ON…ZDF IN JUNE

REFLECTING THE IMAGE OF A NEW WAY OF LIFE

Clips On ZDFneo

The ZDF family is growing, the genes remain constant.

ZDF Theaterkanal becomes the digital ZDFkultur: with a new name, a new logo and a new design.

ZDFkultur reflects the image of a modified way of life and cultural understanding that connects high-brow and popular culture. ZDFkultur is different from

30 years after the start of MTV, music television has become a dying breed. With neoMusic: 90minutes, the ZDF provides a biotope! One topic a show, it’s great theme time television… 5 June 2011, 02:20 am, on ZDFneo: Soundtracks.

Find out more here!

two piano concerts with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Antoni Wit. Next chance to reminisce: 12 June 2011, 07:15 pm, on ARTE Intimate insights into the life and work of the dynamite maestro and master of the Mariinski: Filmmaker Allan Miller invites us to the realms of Valery Gergiev: MUSICA: Valery Gergiev – Herrscher über das Mariinski (13 June 2011,

already established culture channels due to its

ZDF Music On ARTE

10:05 pm, on ARTE)

rather feuilletonistic ways of presentation. ZDFkultur is

Johann Strauß’ Viennese Waltzes arranged by Arnold

subjective, polarising and stages culture playfully by itself.

Schönberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern: The Philharmonics are reviving the modernists’ point of

Always worth celebrating…

Carlos Kleiber, the cryptic genius – In a portray by

The leading programme parts of the new digital

view in a traditional Viennese Kaffeehaus.

Nichts – Der Dirigent Carlos Kleiber (20

5 June 2011, 07:15 pm, on ARTE: MAESTRO:

June 2011, 09:50 pm, on ARTE) and on the rostrum

playing – playing theatre or playing computer games.

Wiener Walzer

in MAESTRO: Carlos Kleiber dirigiert

Pop music is an essential element of ZDFkultur, not so

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of

Brahms’ 4. Symphonie, a recording of the

much in form of chart-pop or mainstream-pop, it will

Frédéric Chopin’s birthday, in 2010 ARTE

concert Kleiber gave at the Munich Herkulessaal in

be mostly Indie-Rock and Pop, Heavy Metal, Hip-Hop, Jazz or Electronic Music, which will find their home at

presented the Warsaw concert of Evgeny

October 1996 conducting the Bayerische

Kissin und Nikolai Demidenko performing his

Staatsorchester (19 June 2011, 07:15 pm, on ARTE).

ZDFkultur channel are the pop culture and all types of

ZDFkultur. Find out more here

filmmaker Eric Schulz: MUSICA: Spuren ins

www.zdf.de

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THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Fanfare For A New Century When the San Francisco Symphony was established in 1911, its founders sought to create a permanent orchestra for the city that would make music available to all its citizens, regardless of age, income or background. Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony hold true to this vision 100 years later with the opening of their 2011-2012 Centennial Season, three days of civic and community celebrations (7 – 9 September) that mark 100 years since the Orchestra’s founding, as well as celebrate the American orchestra’s role as a cultural, educational, and civic institution.

The Symphony’s Opening Gala on 7 September – featuring Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas leading the Orchestra and special guest soloists pianist Lang Lang and violinist Itzhak Perlman – will be filmed for national PBS broadcast on WNET/THIRTEEN’s Great Performances series and will air later during the 2011-2012 season.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA SUMMER HD ENCORES

Beginning 15 June, the Met will once again present Summer HD Encores, a series of screenings from the groundbreaking Live in HD series, in more than 425 movie theaters across the United States. This summer’s Encores series offers screenings of six classic Live in HD transmissions: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Verdi’s Simone Boccanegra, Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment, Puccini’s Tosca, and Verdi’s Don Carlo. Detailed cast and opera information is included on The Metropolitan Opera’s 2011 Summer HD Encores Schedule.

The Met: Live in HD, the company’s award-winning series of opera transmissions into movie theaters around the world, is shown in 46 countries and in more than 1,500 theaters. Since launching the HD series in December

Centennial Season Overview

2006, the Metropolitan Opera has become the leading producer of alternative cinema content, selling more than seven million tickets in total. The fifth

The opening week concerts and events kick off the San Francisco Symphony’s 2011-2012

season of live transmissions concludes on 14 May with the Met’s new

centennial season, an ambitious eleven-month calendar of concerts, programmes, and events,

production of Die Walküre, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine

expanded education programms, and centennial media initiatives. Find all the details here.

and directed by Robert Lepage. www.metopera.org.

www.sfsymphony.org

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS 7TH QUEEN ELISABETH I N T E R N AT I O N A L V O I C E COMPETITION (MAY 2011)

Fine Arts at the closing concert of this year’s competition, with the

ARTE FRANCE

Symphony Orchestra of the Vlaamse

Dear colleagues, dear friends,

Opera, conducted by Dmitri Jurowski. All

For nearly twenty years, animated by the same passion for music, we have come

THE 12 LAUREATES

IMZ members are warmly invited

together to discuss, produce and co-produce many important films for ARTE,

Korean soprano Hong Haeran has won

to attend the closing concert.

preserving the essence of the extraordinary diversity and vitality of artistic

t h e 7 t h Q u e e n E l i s a b e t h Vo i c e

Please contact the Competition at

creation. During these years, with your help, I have defended the best of

Competition. Second laureate is Belgian

mevanneste@qeimc.be!

international production, and I will always remember with emotion the shared

tenor Thomas Blondelle and third

This year’s competition has been streamed

moments of work and joy. The time has now come for me to leave ARTE for a

l a u re a t e R u s s i a n s o p r a n o E l e n a

live on the competition’s website as from

more personal life.

Galitskaya. French mezzo-soprano

the semi-finals. The semi-final and final

Anaïk Morel is 4th, Russian baritone

I wish all of you continue this essential mission, to keep alive and transmit the

performances are now available as video on demand until 15 September 2011.

beauty of music.

Konstantin Shushakove 5th and French mezzo Clémentine Margaine 6th laureate.

The complete ranking of the 12 laureates and an overview of the jury members is available on the competition’s website. The 12 finalists have performed with La Monnaie/De Munt Symphony Orchestra

Yours faithfully, Gabrielle Babin Gugenheim gabriellebabin@gmail.com Gabrielle Babin Gugenheim is retiring, but music and dance are still alive on ARTE, so do not hesitate to contact:

under the baton of Carlo Rizzi.

Esther Lehoczky, Emelie de Jong, and Isabelle Mestre.

On 9 June, the first six laureates will

Read more on ARTE France Culture et Spectacles here.

perform in the Brussels Centre for

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS WOMEX 11 Smart Rate Deadline: 17 June 2011

October 2010 saw over 2,440 delegates from more than 90 countries, 650 exhibitors, a full Conference programme including

EUROPEAN MUSIC COUNCIL Manifesto For Youth And Music In Europe

and all those working in the music sector, and also as a policy document. We are looking for ambassadors to spread the word and to get as wide an endorsement

The programme selection for

Film Screenings and a Showcase

The Working Group Youth of the

as possible for the manifesto and what it

WOMEX 11 in Copenhagen is

Festival presenting 59 acts on 6

European Music Council has now

stands for: the enhancement of youth

stages.

launched its Manifesto for Youth and

participation in the shaping of the music

Music in Europe part of its Access!

sector of the future.

now well underway following a record number of submissions.

WOMEX received over 750 Showcase proposals, 70 Conference proposals and 35 Film Screening proposals.

Trade Fair Stands are selling out fast and now is the time to re g i s t e r i n o rd e r t o t a ke advantage of the Smart Rate – see the WOMEX Registration

The next edition of WOMEX, the most important international professional market for world music, will be taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 26 to 30 October 2011.

For more information about WOMEX – the World Music Expo – visit www.womex.com

project and a direct result of the European Youth Forum on Music 2010 in Torino. The Manifesto was officially launched at the European Music Festival for Young People in Neerpelt, Belgium at the start of May. The main themes of the manifesto are lifelong learning, professional training, mobility and dialogue,

page for details and book before

employment, resources, and

the deadline on 17 June 2011.

youth as a resource.

The 16th edition of WOMEX in Copenhagen, Denmark, in

This document is now being widely disseminated as a tool for young people

For more information and to get involved, take a look at www.wgyemc.org and/or get in touch via wgy@emc-imc.org!