IMZ NL03 2010

NEWSLETT ER MA RC H 2010 IMZ INTERNAL NEWS

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

• ELECTION OF THE IMZ EXECUTIVE BOARD 2011

• 47TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE

• “GOLDEN PRAGUE PREMIERES 2010” - IMZ AT THE 47TH

• EUROARTS MUSIC INTERNATIONAL BEST OF THE FESTIVALS

ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE - CALL FOR ENTRY! • IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2010 CALL FOR ENTRY! • DANCE SCREEN AT CINEDANS 2010 - CALL FOR ENTRY!

• PAUL SMACZNY TO MOVE ON TO NEW CHALLENGES • C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT BREAKING NEWS • CLASART COOPERATIONS WITH CLEVELAND AND ZÜRICH TO BE CONTINUED • SWISS TELEVISION STARS: THE YOUNG GODS – LONELY PIONEERS • HAZEL WRIGHT TO SUPPORT ELECTRIC SKY • VAN WALSUM MANAGEMENT ALFRED BRENDEL AND THE KIT • HAZEL WRIGHT MEDIA LTD. CONTACT DETAILS • PARS MEDIA NEW ADDRESS • THE MET ANNOUNCED 2010-11 SEASON • SFS MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS AWARDED NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS

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N EWSL ET TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS Election of the IMZ Executive Board 2011 The IMZ Executive Board will be elected by all IMZ members in a two-step

On three different evenings six IMZ members will have the possibility to

election procedure. Find the Candidacy Declaration Form, which you have to

present their latest programme to the professional audience of the festival.

fill in, if you want to be a candidate for the Board: here.

For the “Golden Prague Premieres 2010” we are looking for music and

The closing date for receipt of the candidacy declaration form at the IMZ is

dance television programmes and films, which have not had their premiere

30 June 2010.

yet.

Deadline for submitting programmes: 31 May 2010

“Golden Prague Premieres 2010” - IMZ at the 47th ITF Golden Prague - CALL for ENTRY IMZ and ITF Golden Prague are happy to announce that the 47th edition of the ITF Golden Prague, is taking place on 16 – 20 October 2010 at Žofín Palace, Prague.

“Golden Prague Premieres 2010” We are very pleased to inform you of the enlarged co-operation between IMZ and ITF Golden Prague. IMZ and ITF Golden Prague offer six special screening slots - “Golden Prague Premieres 2010”:

For further information, please contact Katharina Jeschke 1at the IMZ office (k.jeschke@imz.at), use our homepage http://www.imz.at or click here to find the application form, to be sent to Katharina Jeschke until May 31st the latest.

If you want to offer a cocktail around your “Golden Prague Premiers 2010” please contact Zuzana Svobodová at the ITF Golden Prag office (zuzana.svobodova@ceskatelevize.cz).

N EWSL ET TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS IMZ World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX 2010 CALL FOR ENTRY! 16 April is the deadline for entries to the 9th IMZ-organised World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX taking place 27 October – 31 October 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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) 2009 brought a new city (Copenhagen) and a new partnership. Many of the city's key cultural players banded together to make the invitation, and then created WorldMusicFair

You may submit any world music programme that has not been presented at

Copenhagen (WMF CPH) to become the local production partner. First and foremost

WOMEX before. We are looking for undeniable cinematic quality – a film that

Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and Wonderful Copenhagen. The other principal

grabs and moves the viewer, with an intriguing storyline, dramatic composition, strong visuals and first-rate camera work. We welcome new/unheard/unseen

members comprise the Danish Center for Culture and Development (CKU/DCCD), Global Copenhagen and World Music Denmark in cooperation with Welcome Meeting

subjects and niches but are open to established artists as well. In addition the

Management.

quality of the music itself is most important and one of the key criteria for the selection process.

There were over 2700 delegates and 650 exhibiting companies from 92 countries in 280 Trade Fair Stand Units. Furthermore, having inaugurated a new structure, WOMEX 2009

Your proposals may be submitted online here

presented 57 acts including 340 artists on 6 stages and 23 Conference Sessions.

For full details go to the Application Info or contact: r.pfletschinger@imz.at.

www.womex.com

The proposed entries may also become part of our “World music film on Tour”distribution project.

For more information click here.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS dance screen at Cinedans 2010!

CALL FOR ENTRY! Submit your dance films and videos!

Bright prospects for lovers of video dance: Come and join us in the Dutch city of Amsterdam! The IMZ and Cinedans would like to cordially invite you to participate in dance screen at Cinedans 2010: On 8 – 12 December, the 12th international festival and competition for dance films and videos will take place in cooperation with Cinedans, the Dutch international film, dance and media festival. In Cinedans, we have found synergetic partners to co-organise this event. Additionally to programming dance films and videos Cinedans also focuses on crossover projects and media installations. The Cinedans festival further features commissioned film projects, live games and workshops and will take place from 8 – 12 December 2010. dance screen at Cinedans 2010 will be featuring an irresistible programme of events! In addition to the extensive film programme for all lovers of dance and dance film/video, which brings together the newest, most exciting, trend-setting, controversial, most beautiful works of its kind, lively panels and productive discussions on the state of the arts, inspiring lectures, hot topic talks on community focal points and presentations will let us explore the variety of our alluring playgrounds.

The video library is as always a wide fishing pool for programmers offering a varied overview on the art form.

Focussing on excellence and innovation, the dance screen at Cinedans 2010 competition forms the centre of the festival, which thus will culminate in the dance screen at Cinedans 2010 Award Gala, presenting the main award, endowed with EUR 3,000, and further prizes in each category plus a Student Award as well as an Audience Award.

Hence high time to put out our first call for entries! You may submit your work(s) in the following categories: A) Live performance relay Multi-camera relay of a live dance performance B) Camera re-work Adaptation of an existing choreography C) Screen choreography Television/film/data productions with a choreography specifically created for the screen, movement based video clips, experimental films, animation & fiction D) Documentary Profile or feature of e.g. a choreographer, a dance company, dance history, etc.

Competition Rules Online entry form Deadline for submission and receipt of material is 30 June 2010!

Join us and explore the many-splendoured languages of video dance!

Find more information www.dancescreen.com

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If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Katharina Jeschke from the IMZ office at k.jeschke@imz.at or telephone +43-1-889 03 15.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS 47TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE: 16 – 20 OCTOBER 2010, ZOFIN PALACE, Don‘t miss out on one of the industry’s most prestigious festivals and explore the new Golden Prague in October! For its 47th edition, the ITF Golden Prague has introduced numerous reforms, a key one being the change of date to 16 – 20 October 2010 due to the new plans of a closer cooperation of the festival with EBU (European Broadcasting Union) and IMZ (International Music and Media Centre), who this year will be engaged in an unusual number of events to be held in spring, for example the EBU Summit and the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition. Those are the coordinates, but also regarding the media the festival‘s world has changed! Strengthening their support for the ITF Golden Prague, both EBU and IMZ will be involved in the whole festival programme and its accompanying events…

For instance, the prestigious Gala premieres have been shifted from the showcase at MIDEM in

Cannes to the festival in Prague. Thus, three extraordinary Gala evenings entitled Golden Prague Premieres will be held in the framework of the 47th ITF Golden Prague: a screening of remarkable premieres that have recently been finished and are to be presented by the creators personally. Find further information as well as entry forms to the Golden Prague Premieres at the IMZ website www.imz.at.

Furthermore, the IMZ and EBU are preparing a series of worskhops, discussions and meetings to accompany the 47th ITF Golden Prague, as well as several new programmes dedicated to both a professional and the general audience with special emphasis on – Exploring the music cultures of selected countries around the world

– Getting familiar with current superior productions in the field of modern dance – Music production for children and youth.

The cycle „TV stations present…“ will showcase productions by TV Cultura Brazil, TV Kultura Poland, and Armenian television. Director Hans Hulscher and choreographer Mats Ek are the stars of the series “Tribute to…“, and with the new programme “In Memory of...”, the festival will pay homage to the work of choreographer Merce Cunningham. It is a great honour for us that Jiří Kylián has taken over as patron for the dance part of the accompanying festival programme.

Of course, the whole festival will again be open to anyone interested in high-quality music and dance

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS programmes and films on the TV screen and, except for the introduced accompanying programmes, the festival participants will again have the chance to view all competition programmes submitted to the 47th ITF Golden Prague in the festival‘s videolibrary.

How to submit? Entry forms are available at the ITF GP website www.festivalgoldenprague.cz The competition: Fee: 250 Euro incl. VAT per a programme Deadline for the entry form: 30 April 2010 The deadline for competition programmes and films delivery: 15 May 2010 Please note: Programmes in the competition are divided into the two categories 1) Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance

2) Music on the TV screen / Recordings of opera, operetta, musicals, dance, ballet, concerts, etc.

The videolibrary:

Only programmes produced after 15 April 2009 will be accepted for competition.

Deadline for the entry form: 30 April 2010

fee: 60 Euro incl.VAT per a programme

Maximum number of programmes per entrant: 5

The deadline for competition programmes and films delivery: 15 May 2010

Maximum total length of all programmes entered by a single entrant: unlimited

Personal registration (Deadline: 15 September 2010) is free of charge!

Minimum length of each programme: 5 minutes

Enjoy a golden October in Prague! The team of the 47th ITF Golden Prague is looking forward to welcoming you‌

The Jury awards: the main prize of the festival, Grand Prix GOLDEN PRAGUE (10,000 Euro) to the winning programme, two CZECH CRYSTALS to winning programmes in individual categories, as well as a SPECIAL MENTION for extraordinary artistic achievement. Additionally, the Director General of Czech Television awards the CZECH TELEVISION PRIZE, and visitors to the ITF GP Video Library are invited to vote on the AUDIENCE AWARD.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS EUROARTS MUSIC INTERNATIONAL BEST OF THE FESTIVALS EuroArts proudly presents programme highlights of the two most famous classical music festivals worldwide.

Produced by: EuroArts Music International, in coproduction with ZDF/ARTE and SF DRS. Format: HD. Programme number: 5796 In the second concert programme Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra present Mahler’s

Lucerne Festival 2009

Symphony No. 4 and world-renowned singer Magdalena

Traditionally in August, the whole classical music world

Kožená performs Mahler’s Rückert Lieder.

looks to Lucerne/Switzerland. Again EuroArts Music – in

Produced by: EuroArts Music International, in co-

co-production with ZDF/ARTE, NHK and SF – produced

production with ZDF/ARTE and NHK. Format: HD.

two concert programmes of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Claudio Abbado. In

Programme number: 5798

his 7th year of conducting “his” orchestra, this liaison

Verbier Festival 2009

marks the highlight of the whole festival period, slowly but

The Idéale Audience production of the very best of

surely completing an incomparable Mahler cycle.

Verbier Festival 2009 pictures – in sixteen programmes –

For the festival’s opening concert Claudio Abbado chose Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, combining it with Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 performed by twentytwo years old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang.

the festival’s fantastic line-up of renowned soloists such as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Nelson Goerner, Julian Rachlin, Sol Gabetta, Mischa Maisky, Yuja Wang, Susan Graham, Joshua Bell and Valery Sokolov – to name just a few! Opening the series: Annette Dasch, René Pape and Bryn Terfel perform

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS excerpts from Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Amongst the Verbier 2009 first-class piano highlights are Evgeny Kissin’s renditions of Chopin’s piano concertos and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, as well as performances by David Fray and Martha Argerich. Not to forget: Philippe Jaroussky. With the purity of his voice the multiple-awarded countertenor celebrates the art of coloratura in a compilation of his favourite melodies by French composers.

Produced by: Idéale Audience. Format: HD. Programme numbers: 7910 - 7925

PAUL SMACZNY TO MOVE ON TO NEW CHALLENGES In a letter to his friends and colleagues, Paul Smaczny recently informed the industry that he was leaving EuroArts end of February to move on to new challenges.

“The decision to leave EuroArts has been a difficult one - I have spent 20 exciting years with the company and I have had an extraordinary time here, with a wonderful group of colleagues, exceptional opportunities and unique

For further information and distribution details, please contact Ulrike Siebert,

productions. I'm much obliged to Bernd Hellthaler, the founder of EuroArts,

Head of Marketing & Communications, u.siebert@euroarts.com

for letting me implement successfully my tasks and all my projects.

www.euroarts.com

EuroArts has been a tremendous experience and I am extremely grateful for the relationship and knowledge shared over all these years. Thank you all for your trust and support! I really very much enjoyed working and meeting with you! I hope that we will stay in touch and that our paths will cross again!

Warmest regards and thank you again for your wonderful cooperation over all these years! sincerely yours, Paul Smaczny”

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS Bernd Hellthaler will take over all production activities at EuroArts

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana) is awarded by

under his direct leadership therefore if you have any inquiries and

the Quarterly Critics' Choice of the German Record

questions regarding:

Critics' Award. (Length: 244’. Format: HD. TV

– upcoming productions and new projects please contact Bernd

Director: Tiziano Mancini. Production: Unitel. TV

Hellthaler, b.hellthaler@euroarts.com

Distribution: C Major Entertainment.)

– contractual matters please get in touch with Andreas Mann, a.mann@euroarts.com

Kinshasa Symphony at Berlinale: The film

EuroArts Music International GmbH

Kinshasa Symphony about the only symphony

Bundesallee 39-40 10717 Berlin You can contact Paul Smaczny via the IMZ office.

orchestra in central Africa – the “Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste” – celebrated its successful world premiere at ‘Berlinale Special’ on 17 February 2010. Festival director Dieter Kosslick congratulated the directors Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer on this “great documentary film about

C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT BREAKING NEWS

this very special way towards Beethoven’s Ninth

T h e G e r m a n Re c o rd C ri t i c s ’ Awa rd : C M a j o r

Symphony. The film and its story have touched our

Entertainment’s DVD release of Die Walküre by Richard Wagner (Stage Production: La Fura dels Baus. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. With Peter Seiffert, Juha Uusitalo, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Jennifer Wilson;

hearts …”.

Find more detailed information at www.kinshasa-symphony.com.

Available for broadcast: August 2010. Length: 60’ / 90’. Production: Sounding Images in coproduction with WDR and RBB. Theatrical and TV Distribution: C Major Entertainment.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS Lang Lang in Vienna: “The most popular pianist on the planet” (CNN) performs at the stunning Musikverein in Vienna, recorded for the first time at a special TV recital! Lang Lang plays works by Beethoven (Sonata op. 2, no.3 and Sonata op. 23 Appassionata), Albeniz (Iberia Book 1), Prokofiev (Sonata no. 7) and Chopin. The programme also includes special backstage features, interviews, and much more… Length: approx. 90’. Format: HD. Production: Sony, BFMI / TV. TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment.

Rubinstein plays Chopin: In commemoration of the 200th birthday of Frédérique Chopin, C Major Entertainment and Unitel present two highly-acclaimed productions with legendary pianist Arthur Rubinstein: Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, op. 21 with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by André Previn (Length: 34’. TV Director: Hugo Käch.

Cat. No.: A05500594) and the Scherzo in B flat minor, op.31 (Length: 10’. TV Director: Hugo Käch. Cat No.: A05500581) TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment.

Komeda – A Soundtrack for a Life awarded with the FIPA D'ARGENT Special Prize: With compositions like the lullaby for Roman Polanski’s Rosemary's Baby, Polish jazz pianist and film composer Krzysztof Komeda changed the common film scores forever and wrote his own chapter in the history of soundtracks. Following the life story of the composer, the film is a contemporary document about the situation of Polish artists in the 50s and 60s. The film includes interviews with famous directors like Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Henning Carlsen and Andrzej Wajda.

Length: 52’. Format: HD. TV Director: Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy. Production: Benedikt Pictures. TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment.

For further information, please contact C Major Entertainment: mail@cmajor-entertainment.com, or telephone: +49(0)30-30306464.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS For further details, please contact Katja Raths, raths@tmg.de.

CLASART’S COOPERATIONS WITH CLEVELAND AND ZÜRICH TO BE CONTINUED Clasart Classic, is continuing its successful collaboration with The Cleveland Orchestra. The phenomenally acclaimed performance of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn under the musical direction of Pierre Boulez was recorded just a few months before the upcoming 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth with the cooperation of ARTE. Guest singers were mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and baritone Christian Gerhaher. The concert took place in Cleveland's Severance Hall and was also part of the many international tributes honoring the 85th birthday of Pierre Boulez, who also celebrated his 45th anniversary with the Cleveland Orchestra at this occasion. The concert included the Adagio from the 10th Symphony in F sharp major and the Lieder cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Also, the cooperation with Opernhaus Zürich is being continued in 2010: The recording of Humperdinck's Königskinder has just been completed. Under the musical direction of Ingo Metzmacher, Jens-Daniel Herzog's production drew storms of ovations from press and public alike. In particular, the vocal artistry and acting talent of German tenor Jonas Kaufmann were frenetically applauded. Kaufmann's co-star, soprano Isabel Rey, dazzled in the role of the Goose girl.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS SWISS TELEVISION STARS IThe department Music and Cultural Events from Swiss Television is proud to present the documentary The Young Gods – Lonely Pioneers in the framework of the Stars series.

Lonely Pioneers tells their story using old footage and videoclips, some of them never seen on TV, and, of course, new material captured in 2008 and 2009. Shot in High Definition the film shows the group on concert tours in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland and Switzerland, and on stage with the string quartet Barbouze de Chez Fior. The film also follows them into their rehearsal studio

«This is extraordinarily brutal dance music» declared British magazine Melody

where they rebuild their sampling technology, which they had become so famous

Maker in 1987 when rewarding Swiss band The Young Gods with the award “album

for. Lonely Pioneers is a film about extraordinary musicians and their passion for

of the year”. The group had only begun making music two years earlier in a shared

their work.

flat in downtown Geneva. The outcome of the collaboration of a classically trained guitar player and a computer nerd was a fusion of classical music, French chanson, and punk. In the year 25 of their existence The Young Gods are still alive and kicking, and currently working on their 13th studio album.

Get a 90 second video impression: here (http://www.sf.tv/sendungen/stars/ manualx.php?docid=young-gods). For more information, please contact Esther Wintsch, Schweizer Fernsehen Musik und Kultur-Events, at Esther.Wintsch@sf.tv or telephone +41 44 305 58 09. www.sfs.tv

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS HAZEL WRIGHT TO SUPPORT ELECTRIC SKY UK-based Electric Sky are pleased to welcome Hazel Wright from Hazel Wright Media Ltd. as their new Performance/Music Sales Consultant. “Hazel has extensive experience in licensing opera, ballet and other classical music productions through her work with BBC Worldwide and the Royal Opera House. She will be an invaluable addition to the team at Electric Sky and we look forward to her guiding hand helping us expand our performance repertoire with new, exciting, high quality titles.”

Electric Sky are also thrilled to announce the closing of a number of exciting sales from their performance catalogue. Tohokushinsha Film Corporation/Classica Japan have licensed the Royal Opera House’s La Boheme, Acis and Galatea, Carmen, Dido and Aeneas, Don Carlo, Giselle, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.

SBS Australia have also licensed a large package of over 23 hours including Romeo & Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It from the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

The antipodean interest in performance programming has continued with The Arts Channel New Zealand taking 10 titles including Don Giovanni, Aida, Salome and L’elisir d’amore & Hansel und Gretel from Glyndebourne Opera House. www.electricsky.com

VAN WALSUM MANAGEMENT: ALFRED BRENDL AND THE KIT Alfred Brendel, one of the very greatest classical pianists of our time, retired from public performance at the end of 2008. He is 77. It is a crucial and perhaps difficult time, though he speaks of the decision with relief. He now devotes more time to teaching. His only pupil is the young prodigy Kit Armstrong, an extraordinary 17 year-old Chinese American. Kit lives between London and Paris and is studying post-graduate Maths. His exceptional gifts are undoubted: he is not just a technical wizard, but has a mature sense of musicianship and sensitivity. He has also been composing since the age of 6.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS ALFRED BRENDEL & KIT ARMSTRONG: MASTER & APPRENTICE The film will be about the managing and nurturing of great talent,

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the relationship between an old master – who has an appealing childish quality about

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him – and his young pupil, showing him the way into the world, through music, telling him about the ways of study, performance and interpretation, and indeed providing

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him with a kind of philosophy of life, or way of being. Alfred and Kit are very different – not least their age – but there is a love of the bizarre in both of them which has

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clearly played a crucial part in making their link so special.

Tig na Carrige, Toormore, Goleen, West Cork.

Alfred Brendel & Kit Armstrong: Master & Apprentice is produced and directed by Mark Kidel. A ZDF commission in association with Artificial Eye. The film is due for completion by May 2010!

Distributed to international television by Van Walsum Management.

Further details from Hazel Wright, Consultant to Van Walsum Management, hazel@hazelwrightmedia.com.

Contact details Hazel Wright Media Ltd. London office: 57, Nero Court, Justin Close, Brentford Dock, Middlesex, TW8 8QB.

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N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS CHANGE OF ADDRESS

THE MET ANNOUNCED 2010-11 SEASON

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Seven new productions, including two company premieres, headline the Metropolitan

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Opera’s 2010-11 season, celebrating the 40th anniversary of James Levine’s company debut. General Manager Peter Gelb and Music Director James Levine announced

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plans for the Met premieres of John Adams’s Nixon in China and Rossini’s Le Comte

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Ory, the first two installments of Robert Lepage’s new production of Wagner’s epic

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Der Ring des Nibelungen, with stagings of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, and new productions of three repertory classics by debuting directors – Boris Godunov by

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Peter Stein, Don Carlo by Nicholas Hytner, and La Traviata by Willy Decker. With Nixon in China, Peter Sellars will also make his Met directorial debut, and Bartlett

Oranienburger Str. 18

Sher, director of Le Comte Ory, will return for his third production there following

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his recent successful stagings of Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Les Contes d’Hoffmann.

In his 40th anniversary season, James Levine, who has conducted nearly 2,500 performances at the Met, more than any conductor in the company’s 126-year

Amongst PARS Media’s latest productions: Andreas Gursky: Total und Close and

history, will conduct six operas across a range of repertory. The Met will celebrate the

Chopin at the Opera, both films by Jan Schmidt-Garre. Latest Laurels: Jan Schmidt-

music director’s extraordinary, record-breaking Met career with historical DVD and

Garre's film Celibidache – You don't do anything, you let it evolve received the

CD releases of his performances, as well as a new documentary film about the

MIDEM Classical Award 2010. If you are interested in further information, please

maestro by award-winning director Susan Froemke. Levine will launch the 2010-11

contact contact@parsmedia.com or visit the company’s website www.parsmedia.com.

season on Monday, 27 September 2010, with a gala performance of Das Rheingold.

The first installment of the new Ring cycle by Robert Lepage, the opera will star Bryn

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS Terfel in his first appearance as Wotan in the U.S. and Stephanie Blythe as Fricka. On

Last but not least, Angela Gheorghiu comes back for Gounod’s Juliette for the first

the actual date of his anniversary, 5 June, Levine will conduct Don Carlo with the

time since 1998, and Marcelo Álvarez again sings the title role in Il Trovatore. Read

company on tour in Japan.

more here (www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/press/detail.aspx?id=11432), and

The Met’s conducting roster will feature a number of notable debut artists in the

find further information on The Met’s new productions and role debuts, the twenty-

2010-11 season, including Simon Rattle, who leads Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, and William Christie, who conducts Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Edward Gardner, Patrick Fournillier, Erik Nielsen, and Paolo Arrivabeni also make their Met debuts leading important revivals during the season. Maestros returning to conduct revivals will include: Marco Armiliato, Andrew Davis, Plácido Domingo, Riccardo Frizza, Fabio Luisi, Nicola Luisotti, Andris Nelsons, and Patrick Summers.

Highly acclaimed recent portrayals by some of the Met’s most popular stars will be reprised this season. Star soprano Renée Fleming performs the virtuoso title role of Rossini’s Armida, then switches gears to sing the Countess in Richard Strauss’s Capriccio (her first complete account of the role, though she sang the final scene at the Opening Night Gala in 2008). Susan Graham returns to the title role of Iphigénie en Tauride with Plácido Domingo repeating his noble Oreste. Natalie Dessay once again offers her brilliant portrayal of the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor, and Elīna Garanča gives the audience another chance to witness her magnetic Carmen. Anna Netrebko reprises her tour-de-force Norina in Don Pasquale, and Karita Mattila takes the stage as Lisa in The Queen of Spades, a role she has not sung here since 1995.

one revivals of the repertory, The Met’s Holiday Presentation, The Gallery Met, Met Player, The Met Orchestra’s annual series of concerts at Carnegie Hall, The Met on the Radio and the Web, The Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater “Opera/Theater Commissions” Programme, The Met Opera Shop and, of course, the eleven live transmissions of the fifth season of The Met: Live in HD series at www.metopera.org!

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS SFS: MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS AWARDED NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS

Director of the New World Symphony, the premier orchestral academy for gifted

Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, has been

relationships with legendary composers of the 20th century, such as Igor Stravinsky,

selected to receive the National Medal of Arts, the US’s highest award for artistic

Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas’s wide ranging

achievement. The award was presented by President Barack Obama Thursday

perspectives on music have won him respect and trust among musicians and

afternoon, 25 February at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.

audiences worldwide.

young musicians. With a background that includes grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, founding members of the Yiddish Theater in America, and working

He conducts and has recorded musical works ranging from Bach, Tchaikovsky and

by Congress in 1984, is

Beethoven to Gershwin, Ives and Reich. The recordings of the complete Mahler

awarded by the President and managed by the National Endowment for the Arts.

symphony cycle by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony have been recognized with seven Grammy Awards, including three this year for Mahler’s

THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS, established

Award recipients are selected based on their contributions to the creation, growth, and support of the arts in the United States. The National Council on the Arts, the Arts Endowment’s presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed advisory body,

Symphony No. 8 and the Adagio from Symphony No. 10. (See IMZ Newsletter February 2010!)

reviews the nominations and provides recommendations to the President, who selects the recipients.

For more information on Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony, their current plans and projecs, especially the Keeping Score Project including the nationally

MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS

televised PBS series, radio programming, interactive websites and a K-12 education

is acclaimed as a conductor, composer and educator. Currently in his 15th season as

and musical backgrounds, please visit www.sfsymphony.org

music director of the San Francisco Symphony, he is also the Founder and Artistic

programme, all designed to make classical music more accessible to people of all ages

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS 20TH IAMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 22 – 24 April 2010, Cité de la Musique, Paris

Pleyel; Caroline Sonrier, Director, Lille Opera; Pierre Korzilius, Director, Auditorium Musée d'Orsay; Hervé Boutry, General Manager, Ensemble Intercontemporain decided the best place to stage the event would be at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, because of the extraordinary environment in which

The forthcoming IAMA conference entitled “Around Us” (or

it sits. The 19th arrondissement is historically a working-class area of Paris. Culturally it’s been rather

“Environ” in the French context) directs a focus onto issues of

derelict, so the venue has had to think hard about how to attract people. The panel sessions at the

environment. It is a term that embraces the broad concept of

conference will take this into consideration and examine environmental areas in architectural, social,

man’s interaction with his surroundings and the impact it has on

digital and cultural terms.

him. Notably in our field of work, it is the human element that makes the spaces we inhabit in the performing arts important to the success of our work. It is how we use our resources, talents and enterprise to reach people. If we think of this as "environment" we need to think about the broader context of where we perform, our impact we make in our communities, on the artists we manage and the audiences who engage with us. It is also about the sustainable environment, too, which today we cannot ignore… The conference will seek to inspire delegates to think about their work and create a new awareness of what is "Around Us". The conference committee, namely Catherine le

The digital session at the conference will embrace use of the internet to enlarge and enhance the concert environment. World music will also get a conference platform. It is another musical environment increasingly integrated into classical music programming which has the effect of connecting the concert hall with communities. Another session features Terre Jones of the Wolftrap Foundation for the Performing Arts reflecting on links between the concert world and green issues.

Other confirmed speakers include: Laurent Bayle, Cité de la Musique; Lamberto Coccioli, Integra, Rosemary Nalden, Buskaid, Pamela Rosenberg, Berlin Philharmonic; Thierry Beauvert, Director of Music – Radio France; Vony Sarfati, Productions Internationales Albert Sarfati; Philippe Fanjas, Association of French Orchestras, Nicolas Droin, Accentus, Douglas Merilatt, New World Symphony Orchestra and René Martin, Festival Nantes.

Bris (Chairman), Director, CLB Management; Emmanuel

IAMA launched its first conference twenty years ago. At the time the association, chaired by Joeske

Hondré, Director of Production, Cité de la Musique & Salle

van Walsum, thought that it would be a good idea to present a conference. When the decision was

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS taken and the wheels started to turn, things looked gloomy until a partnership was launched with the then titled magazine, International Arts Manager edited by Martin Huber. Thankfully, the event was a success and so much so that a call for it to be repeated was made‌ Today, an average of over 400 delegates attend and significantly, decision makers in the business. The conference is not a cultural talk-shop and nor is it an exhibition

LOOKING FOR PARTNERS: ROSE, CALYPSO DIVA The Caribbean Music Group’s Maturity Music currently is working on the finalisation of their new film Rose, Calypso Diva, of which 90% already are shot on locations in Trinidad and Tobago, New York, and Paris and the last footage will be shot in Benin Africa end of March 2010. A website www.calypsorosediva.com will give you all information, trailers, updates on this exciting and dynamic portrait of a fantastic woman, the undisputed queen of Calypso.

based event. It is however, designed to support business meetings and provide a relevant seminar programme through voluntary speakers in the sector. Remarkably, over 60% of attendees are promoters and less than 40% are artist managers.

Booking is open online at: www.IAMAworld.com/conference where a schedule and further information can be obtained. For the first time, there will be a conference twitter, so you can easily get your daily update on twitter.com/IAMAconference!

They are now entering the post-production phase with more than 70 hours of footage filmed in HD and are looking for post-production co-production partnership for the months of June/July/August 2010. The film will premiere at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in September and in London and Paris in October 2010.

If you are interested, please contact Jean Michel Gibert at jmg@ritualsmusic.com.

Caribbean Music Group Ltd. 3A Queen's Park West Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago West Indies Tel: +1 868 625 4829 Mobile: +1 868 681 5363 http://caribbeanmusicgroup.com,http://trinidadtunes.com, http://calypsorosediva.com

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS ALFACAM WITH NEW DOCU-REALITY SERIES Franco Dragone, the former artistic director of Cirque Du Soleil, prepared a new show in ALFACAM’s premises in Belgium.

A 4,000m² studio, 24m high, with a water basin of 1,000m² and 4m deep is the main rehearsal room plus 2 studios of

For more information, please contact: Gabriel Fehervari, CEO Alfacam, CEO Euro1080

1,000m² each. 36 apartments and 50 rooms housed the 120 people’s total crew, coming from 22 countries! Half of that

fe@alfacam.com

crew are artists – half are technical and medical staff. From January 2009 till end of March 2010, they lived, trained,

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worked together almost day and night. They will go to Macao where the final rehearsals will direct the team to the world premiere in July 2010.

ALFACAM followed with 3 teams – in full HDTV – the story from scratch till success, focusing on the life behind the scenes, in a positive atmosphere. Amazing pictures, amazing stories.

The result, a unique docu-reality series, ALFACAM have produced in the past 1.5 years and that will be entirely finished in August 2010, can be bought in different versions: 100 x 15 minutes 25 x 26 minutes 13 x 52 minutes The main language is English, but the narrating voice can be any language.

ALFACAM add all translations and required documents so that any user can slightly adapt it to personal needs.

2547 Lint Tel: +32 3 4542010 www.alfacam.com www.euro1080.tv

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS THE BANFF INTERNATIONAL PILOTS COMPETITION CALL FOR ENTRIES

AMA SUPPORTS ARTISTS MOBILITY WITHIN AFRICA

Motivated by the great success of the 2009 Banff World Television Awards, The Banff

inform artists living in Africa who are planning to participate in the 3rd

World Television Festival is proud to announce a new competition for the 2010 season

Bayimba Cultural Foundation and Art Moves Africa (AMA) are pleased to Edition of Bayimba International Festival of Music and Arts, (Kampala/

that aims to honour those with the talent and motivation to create a series pilot.

Uganda) to apply for an AMA mobility grant before 1 May 2010.

The inaugural Banff International Pilots Competition aims to recognize the talent and

Applicants will be informed, by mid June, if their applications to AMA are

creativity it takes to conceptualise and create a pilot, be it online or on television. The

successful

competition accepts submissions from both "virgin" producers who have never had a show or programme broadcast in any way, as well as "veteran" producers with least

For more information on the AMA mobility fund application

one show broadcast on cable, satellite or the Internet, or with a show in full production.

Deadline for entries:15 March 2010!

For more information on the Pilots Competition, visit http://www.banff2010.com/the.banff.international.pilots.competition.and.awards.php and also click here (www.banff2010.com/pilot.program.rules.and.regulations.php) for further entry details.

visit www.artmovesafrica.org and download the application form from www.bayimba.org.

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS PALAU DE LES ARTS APPOINTS OMER M. WELLBER AS NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR

German, Italian and French music. He has conducted several premieres at the Israeli Opera,

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is pleased to announce that Omer

Tel Aviv has consolidated his position in the world music scene. Omer M. Wellber has also been

M. Wellber will be the new Music Director of the Orquestra de

invited by Maestro Daniel Barenboim to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin). He conducted the

la Comunitat Valenciana. His tenure will begin with the 2011-12

Israel Sinfonietta, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, the

season after Maestro Lorin Maazel’s contract expires. Omer M.

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Awarded with the

Wellber’s contract as Music Director will last until the

Riccardo Muti prize for young conductors, Omer M. Wellber was also chosen as one of 2008 up-and-

2013-2014 season. In season 2010-2011, Maestro Wellber will already join the orquestra as Principal Guest Conductor,

coming artists in Italy by the Classic Voice Magazine.

leading 12 performances and three symphony concerts during that period. Gianandrea Noseda will assume the position of Principal Guest Conductor starting with the 2011-12 season.

Omer M. Wellber (Israel, 1981) is considered as one of the most talented young conductors today. He is currently the conductor in residence of the Israeli Opera and the music director of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra. In very short time he has built an extensive repertoire, which consists of

symphony concerts at La Fenice in Venice and Verona and productions of Aida and Il trovatore in Padova. The recent success with La Scala Philarmonic conducting Aida during the company's tour in

www.lesarts.com

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS A TEXTBOOK OF CULTURAL ECONOMICS

BY RUTH TOWSE

MONACO DANCE FORUM AND LES BALLETS DE MONTE-CARLO

(Bournemouth University. Hardback. ISBN-13: 9780521888721)

second series of performances and events

From 1 – 17 April 2010, the Monaco Dance Forum and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo will present their at the Grimaldi Forum, focused around the National Celebration of the Centenary of Les Ballets

What determines the price of a pop concert or an opera? Why

Russes in the Principality of Monaco.

does Hollywood dominate the film industry? Does illegal

After a successful Act I winter season which brought around 25 000 spectators to enter the vast

downloading damage the record industry? Does free entry to

world of Les Ballets Russes repertoire, the Festival and the 50 dancers of the Monegasque company

museums bring in more visitors? In A Textbook of Cultural Economics, one of the world’s leading cultural economists

continue to assert their complementarity in a powerful way, yet again offering a large audience an Act

shows how we can use the theories and methods of

II spring season just as exciting and original as the first one. Starting off with Maurice Béjart’s historical masterpiece The Rite of Spring, the company of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo with the

economics to answer these and a host of other questions

participation of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Yakov Kreizberg, will

concerning the arts (performing arts, visual arts and literature),

present a choreography focused around Daphnis and Chloe by Jean-Christophe Maillot along with

heritage (museums and built heritage) and creative industries

Ernest Pignon-Ernest and Jérôme Kaplan. Also presented will be another version of Le Spectre de la

(the music, publishing and film industries, broadcasting). Read

Rose by Olivier Dubois, quite an original one as it will involve olfactory senses in collaboration with

more on http://www.cambridge.org/.

the famous Perfumes of Grasse. Act II will pay a special tribute to Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage, the leading actors in the evolution of choreographic art after Diaghilev.

According to the diversity of programmes introduced by the Monaco Dance Forum, other performances will also be presented: Jour de Fête, a disconcerting piece staged by Macha Makeïeff

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS and Jérôme Deschamps, for the first time in Monaco – a

together the most eminent specialists for an artistic, medical and scientific discussion centering

theatre incarnate for the creators of the Logoscope – the

around the question of the body in mouvement.

ghost instruments of Xavier Le Roy – or otherwise the new Flamenco of Israel Galvàn.

Find all schedules of performances, as well as further programme information on: www.monacodanceforum.com / www.balletsdemontecarlo.com

Other highlights: 90 young dancers from North and South America, Asia and Europe will meet up in Monaco to get ready for the most unique audition in the world : the “Tremplin Jeunes Ballets” supported by the Fondation Princesse Grace.

More than 25 Directors from professional international companies in search of new talents will be watching these young artists individually and moreover within performing conditions.

Furthermore, the Monaco Dance Forum in collaboration with Peter Lewton and the ADMR, Association Danse Médecine Recherche, will organise an international symposium bringing

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