The Journey to a Double Bass Concerto

, we announced earlier this month that this year there will be a new ICMA award, the Classeek Award. The award winners have now been announced and we are delighted that double bass player Marc-André Teruel is the first recipient of the ICMA Classeek Award. 

, double bassist Marc-André Teruel has won numerous prizes so far within his career, and he has already achieved great international success both as a solo artist and passionate chamber musician. He regularly gives concerts in the most renowned concert halls, including the Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Musikverein, Salzburger Mozarteum, Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid, Grand Auditorium de Radio France Paris, to name just a few. 

Marc-André will be presented with the ICMA Classeek Award on 21st April, and will perform with the NFM Philharmonic alongside their music director Giancarlo Guerrero, in Wrocław at the ICMA Gala Concert.

The other nominees for the ICMA Classeek Award were a selection of promising artists from our 2022-23 Ambassador Programme application, including pianists Callum McLachlan and Zhu Wang, violinist Julia Blachuta, cellist Ivan Skanavi and clarinetist Arthur Stockel. 

In addition to the new ICMA Classeek Award, we will also be supporting the winner of the ICMA Young Artist Award, Sào Soulez Larivière, with a place on our 2023-24 Ambassador Programme for young artists. We are very happy to welcome Sào to our programme next year!

ICMA Classeek Award

Announcing the 2023 award winner

This season we have 8 wonderful emerging artists nominated onto the Classeek Ambassador programme, by our ambassadors, including pianists Avery Gagliano, Julia Hamos, Giorgi Gigashvili and Tom Borrow, flautist Alberto Navarra, violinist Bilal Alnemr, violist Paul Zientara, and cellist Jeein You. 

This year for the first time, we also opened up the programme to applicants all over the world, to fill our last space on the programme. Having received applications from very high level musicians and a diverse range of instruments and applicants, the process has been difficult. We are thankful to all artists who applied this year as we have been amazed to discover so much talent through the application process.

We are delighted to announce the 13 finalists of our Ambassador Programme open application, for season 2022-23

Following the next round of the application process, we will be announcing the final artist of our Ambassador Programme, next week. 

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