NEWSLETTER May 2013
IMZ INTERNAL NEWS IMZ At Classical:NEXT IMZ World Music Film Screenings At WOMEX 2013 dance screen 2013 With SFDFF IMZ At The 50th ITF Golden Prague Golden Prague Premieres 2013 IMZ World Music Films On Tour Screening In Schweden IMZ General Assembly Minutes Online Staff Changes
IMZ MEMBER NEWS New Productions Accentus Music Bruckner’s Fifth With Barenboim Arthaus Musik New DVD And Blu-ray Releases Clasart Classic Celebrating Richard Strauss In 2014 C Major Entertainment The World Of The Ring And Other Labyrinths EuroArts Last Words And A Jubilee Filmfritz To Portray Andrés Orozco-Estrada. La Monnaie / De Munt Pelléas Et Mélisande ORF-Enterprise Bellini, Rossini And Grafenegg 2013 Looking For Partners Peter Rosen Productions What’s On… ZDF Music On Arte The Wagner Spring Festival/Competition News 50th ITF Golden Prague Reminder Call For Entries & The Jury Members col legno & Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition 2013The Participants Laurels, Prizes and Praises Accentus Music Silver Hugo For John Cage – Journeys In Sound ServusTV Romy For Karajan – The Second Life „Happy Birthday, Richard Wagner!“ Swiping Through Wagner’s Life Who Was Richard Wagner? WAGNER FILES – The App by gebrueder beetz filmproduction approaches this question on a completely new level... Syquali Crossmedia AG Wagner App For iPhone and iPad
RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS Classical:NEXT! Festival Donau-Universität Krems Master’s Course in Music for Film & Media European Festivals Association The Festival Academy mdw Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien New Chair Elected Prince Claus Fund For Culture And Development Rethinking Public Space Rose d’Or Nominees Unveiled World Creators Summit
DANCE SCREEN SPECIAL POST-IT NOTES
IMZ SCHEDULE 17 May 2013, 7pm Preview at Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie Berlin (Germany), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Last Words 31 May 2013 Deadline for submitting programmes to the “Golden Prague Premieres” 29 May – 1 June 2013 IMZ at Classical:NEXT: Vienna (Austria) 31 May – 6 June 2013 Barcelona (Spain), Music Film Festival 14 June – 23 June 2013 Iasi (Romania), Music Film Festival 24 June – 7 July 2013 Jekaterinenburg (Russia), Music Film Festival 29 June – 1 September 2013 Vienna (Austria), Vienna Music Film Festival 1 July – 7 July 2013 Sotchi (Russia), Music Film Festival 5 July – 31 August 2013 San Marino, Music Film Festival
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IMZ At Classical:NEXT 29 May – 1 June 2013 | Vienna Only a few weeks to go! Have you registered yet? If not, please note that we have a special registration deal for all IMZ members: Register online at the „Company Additional“ Rate and indicate „IMZ MEMBER“ in the comment field of your registration form!
juries all around the globe. At MAK, the audience will be able to participate in a discussion with one of the film‘s directors, Claus Wischmann, after the screening.
Friday 31 May, 06:00 pm The Culture Files: Wagner & Beethoven The film series The Culture Files, made The IMZ Film Screenings are scheduled in the style of a criminalistic documentafor Thursday and Friday, 30 and 31 May, ry, sheds new light on renowned compostarting at 06:00 pm in the MAK lecture sers, thus winning over new audiences. At Classical:NEXT, the producer Georg hall. Open to the general public! Tschurtschenthaler will present The Culture Files: Wagnerwahn in full length as On the schedule: well as the Graphic Novel and the app that accompany the film. Furthermore, Thursday 30 May, 06:00 pm the series‘ new Beethoven project will Kinshasa Symphony This film about the adventures of the be introduced... first Congolese symphony orchestra has enthralled viewers and film festival
what is... Classical:NEXT is a newly established, annual event that addresses head-on the challenges facing the international classical and art music community, both in its entirety and within its various sectors. Classical:NEXT also offers an ideal opportunity to promote new talents, new creative ideas and future-oriented business practices. www.classicalnext.com
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IMZ World Music Film Screenings At WOMEX 2013 A huge THANKS for all the film and video submissions! The 12th edition of the screenings at WOMEX is getting more and more tangible. Again, about 40 exciting works have reached us and we are already beginning the challenging process of preselecting… Take a look at all the submission here. The final selection will be revealed by the end of June! Meanwhile, start planning your trip to Cardiff and register at the Smart Rate, valid until 21 June. © Womex 2013
dance screen 2013 With San World Music Francisco Dance Film Festival Films on Tour Early Bird Registration Now Open Buy your festival pass until 15 May 2013 and receive $50 off the regular price! The 4-day Festival pass includes all screenings, all conference and festival events, as well as the opening and closing parties and entitles to special discount hotel rates. Although IMZ members will receive the early bird discount rate of $250 whenever they register, it is recommended that you register rather earlier than later to guarantee a hotel room in September. Due to the America’s Cup Races in September, hotels will be at a premium.
Register Now. © Golden Gate 3D, courtesy of Fountain 3 Films
Book an advert in the dance screen 2013 catalogue
Take the chance and make your profile visible with an advert in the dance screen 2013 with SFDFF Catalogue. For further information please contact Katharina Jeschke, k.jeschke@imz.at
And good news for all dance filmmakers:
Our next screening is very soon... and this time in Sweden! On 15 May, The Godmother of Rock & Roll – Sister Rosetta Tharpe can be seen in the Doc Lounge Lund. Why not seize this opportunity and visit Sweden in the spring…
Pre-selection has already started! We can't wait to see all your films… Stay tuned: www.dancescreen.com You are interested in booking your own film programme? Check the new World Music Films on Tour website for the complete film list available for non-commercial bookings.
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Staff Changes IMZ Project Managers To Face New Challenges The IMZ family is growing again... Project manager Tatiana Petkova will again be temporarily leaving the IMZ (starting 10 May) as she is expecting her second child in July. For project manager Daniela Billner it is a first-time experience; Daniela is expecting her baby also in the summer. Both ladies are planning to return in 2015. We wish Tatiana and Daniela all the best and lots of luck! Meanwhile, their agendas will be taken over by a new IMZ team member: Astrid Hafner-Auinger. © Golden Prague
IMZ At The 50th ITF Golden Prague Golden Prague Premieres 2013 - CALL FOR ENTRY IMZ and ITF Golden Prague are happy to announce that the successful Golden Prague Premieres will be continued this year! Screening slots for the “Golden Prague Premieres 2013” are offered on Sunday afternoon, 13 October, IMZ members will have the opportunity to present their latest programme to the professional audience of the festival. Deadline for submitting programmes: 31 May 2013
Please note: For the “Golden Prague Premieres 2013”, we are looking for music and dance television programmes and films which have not had their premiere yet. For further information, contact Astrid Hafner-Auinger at the IMZ office (a.hafner@imz.at) or download the Application form!
Astrid, a passionate piano (plus organ, guitar, dulcimer, recorder, alto and transverse flute) player, photographer and Lindy Hop dancer, graduated in Sociology and Latin-American Studies. She worked, lived and studied in Austria, France, Spain, Serbia, Brasil and Indonesia. Her professional career has been a mixture of governmental and priThe 50th edition of the ITF Golden vate sector jobs, which gave her a good Prague is taking place on 12 – 16 Octo- mix of experience in the fields of international cultural policy, communication ber 2013 at Žofín Palace, Prague. management and organizational development. We are happy to have her on board and are looking forward to team-working with her!
IMZ General Assembly Minutes
As it is custom, the IMZ held its annual Those of you who didn't have the chan- Contact: a.hafner@imz.at General Assembly during the Avant Pre- ce to attend can now read the minutes in You may address Astrid in German, Engmière Screenings event at midem 2013. the member‘s area of the IMZ website. lish, French, Spanish or Portuguese…
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Accentus Music
Arthaus Musik
Worldwide Release On DVD/Blu-Ray: Bruckner’s Fifth With Barenboim And The Staatskapelle Berlin
New DVD And Blu-ray Releases
Mariss Jansons Conducts Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 / „Bruckner‘s faith in God is apparent as Strauss: Ein Heldenleben his theism majestically gushes out of In May, Arthaus Musik releases the Symphony’s Chorale, and collides Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 on with his profoundly catastrophic world- DVD and Blu-ray. This performance with view in Barenboim‘s sensational inter- the Symphonieorchester des Bayeripretation.“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) schen Rundfunks under the direction of its principal conductor Mariss Jansons stars pianist Mitsuko Uchida. The concert also features Richard Strauss’ tone poem Ein Heldenleben for large orchestra. Live from the Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich, 2011. (101683 / 108079)
With their cyclical performances of Bruckner‘s symphonies, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin gained much attention and enthusiasm. The DVD and Blu-Ray series, Bruckner - The Mature Symphonies by Accentus Music enables an exploration into the vast symphonic cosmos of Bruckner’s work providing the opportunity to relive the development of the composer together with Daniel Barenboim, one of the greatest Bruckner interpreters of our time. After the „Romantic“ Fourth Symphony, the monumental Symphony No. 5 in B flat major will be available on Blu-Ray and DVD from May/ June 2013: a concert recorded at the Berlin Philharmonic hall by Accentus Music, coproduced by Unitel Classica. www.accentus.com
Centennial Edition For its 100th anniversary, Deutsche
Oper Berlin is featured in a special edition of live recordings. Following the first DVD collection with recordings from the 1960s, this special edition box contains operas from the 1970s and 1980s: Preußisches Märchen (Boris Blacher), Die tote Stadt (Erich Wolfgang Korngold), Gespenstersonate (Aribert Reimann), Montezuma (Carl Friedrich von Graun) and Oedipus (Wolfgang Rihm). (107528) www.arthaus-musik.com
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Lo Frate ‘nnamorato Pergolesi’s comic opera Lo frate ‘nnamorato from 1732 will be released on DVD and Blu-ray. The 2011 Jesi production, directed by young Argentine director Willy Landin, features the soloists Nicola Alaimo, Elena Belfiore, Patrizia Biccirè and Jurgita Adamonyté. Fabio Biondi conducts his ensemble Europa Galante. (101652 / 108066) 100 Years DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN –
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Clasart Classic
C Major Entertainment
150th Anniversary Of Richard Strauss In of her young lover. Fleming also stars in the Met’s production of Capriccio. The 2014 performance over all, sensitively conIn 2014, the musical world will be cele- ducted by Andrew Davis and featuring brating the 150th birthday of one of the a winning cast, made an excellent case leading German composers of the late for this Strauss curiosity, his final opera. Romantic and early modern eras: RiContact: chard Strauss (1864 – 1949). Katharina.Biro@tmg.de Katja.Raths@tmg.de
The World of The Ring – Wagner’s Masterwork explained in four parts
www.tmg.de www.metimkino.de
On this occasion, Clasart Classic directs its focus on two outstanding productions from the Zurich Opera House: Renée Fleming is the undisputable star in Arabella. In the title role, Fleming marshals up the full range of her expressive powers. Franz Welser-Möst conducts a cast that also includes Morten Franz Larsen and Julia Kleiter. Another must for everyone who loves Strauss is the Zurich Opera’s production of Elektra. This “breathless thriller” (Die Welt) features Eva Johansson, Marjana Lipovšek and Melanie Diener. Christoph von Dohnányi, famous for his Strauss interpretations, conducts. Also available for TV are three of Strauss’ most beautiful operas from the Metropolitan Opera, distributed by Clasart Classic, including Salome, Der Rosenkavalier and Capriccio. Karita Mattila caused a sensation when she sang Salome at the Met for the first time in 2004. In this recording, she reprises her stunning interpretation of the part, including her unforgettable Dance of the Seven Veils. In Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss’s comic masterpiece, Renée Fleming is the aristocratic Marschallin; with Susan Graham in the breeches part
As one of the most important Wagner conductors of the present day, Christian Thielemann set store by his participation in the four-part documentary series Richard Wagner – The World of the Ring, which sets out to bring the story and background of the works to as wide an audience as possible. This fusion of opera guide and documentary offers newcomers to Wagner an entertaining introduction to his Ring while keeping some surprises up its sleeve for connoisseurs. Including excerpts from recorded rehearsals with Christian Thielemann at the Vienna Staatsoper and from notable Ring productions of recent years by Patrice Chéreau (1980), Harry Kupfer (1992) and La Fura dels Baus (2009). Lengths: 4 x 60' and 4 x 90' available. Directed by Eric Schulz. A co-production of UNITEL CLASSICA, ZDF/3sat and ORF.
Thielemann ©Matthias Creutziger
Paths through the Labyrinth – The Composer Krzysztof Penderecki On the occasion of Penderecki's 80th birthday in 2013, this film portrays the artist with a comprehensive work in progress documentary: For one year, the author Anna Schmidt has been studying Penderecki, speaking also with highcarat companions: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Julian Rachlin and Janine Jansen, Mariss Jansons and Lorin Maazel; Johnny Greenwood ("Radiohead") and Andrzej
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EuroArts Wajda. The film follows Penderecki Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Last Words from Kraków to Munich, from Vienna to Leipzig, and on various occasions to his country estate in Luslawice. Thoughts, dialogues, extracts from Penderecki’s music and film scores, encounters and the natural world all condense to create a fascinating, multi-layered portrait including also very rare archive material. DFD Bruno Monsaingeon in conversation ©M.Weiss, 1994
One year after the passing of the great German baritone Dietrich FischerDieskau, EuroArts – in co-production with Idéale Audience – presents the new Bruno Monsaingeon programme A production of EIKON MITTE in co- Last Words which will be distributed in production with MDR and Bow & Axe HD worldwide for TV and home video Entertainment Warsaw for TVP Poland. by EuroArts. In conversation with MonFunded by Mitteldeutsche Medienför- saingeon, Fischer-Dieskau, for the last derung MDM and Filmfund Krakow. time on camera, reveals the secrets of Length: 75’ min. Author and Director: his outstanding career. Presented by Stiftung Berliner PhilharAnna Schmidt moniker in cooperation with EuroArts Music: the preview of Last Words will www.cmajor-entertainment.com take place on 17 May, 7pm at the Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie Berlin (in presence of the director).
Besides Last Words, Volume 1 will include the documentary Autumn Journey, Schumann Recital: Dichterliebe & Liederkreis Op. 24, Le maître chanteur leçons 1, 2 & 3 (Schumann, Schubert, Mozart), Schubert Recital: 23 Lieder, Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin, and Schubert en vrac – an additional masterclass. All programmes are also available for TV distribution (Schubert en vrac excepted). The book contains texts by Bruno Monsaingeon and is a treasure chest of pictures including unpublished photographs from Dietrich FischerDieskau’s private archives… Release Highlights Celebrating Claudio Abbado’s Birthday In June: Jubilee BOX Abbado
Now in HD on Blu-ray Disc: Abbado Beethoven Symphonies
EuroArts and Idéale Audience are also proud to announce the release of Bru- Claudio Abbado – Verdi – Lux Aeterna no Monsaingeon Edition Vol. 1: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in September 2013.
Abbado conducts Mahler and Schönberg It is the first edition of an ultimate coll- www.euroarts.com ection of a lifelong work of Monsaingeon who has documented life and work of the greatest artists of our time. Each edition will consist of 5 – 10 DVDs and a book.
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Filmfritz
La Monnaie / De Munt
ORF-Enterprise
Shooting has begun for a portrait of Colombian conductor Andrés OrozcoEstrada.
Pelléas Et Mélisande
Music Highlights For The Summer of 2013
At work, Andrés Orozco-Estrada cuts a dynamic figure. He communicates with his musicians with great intensity: His gestures range from large and powerful to minimal and delicate, reflecting the range of emotions and moods in the music they are performing. At rehearsals (with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra and the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna, where he is music director) he talks fast and with energy. In conversation, however, Andrés Orozco-Estrada is calm and modest. He thinks carefully before he speaks, whether the topic is great composers, Viennese desserts, or the fascinating way things work in Europe… In 1997, at the age of 19, Orozco-Estrada left Colombia to study in Vienna. As a child in Medellín he studied violin and began conducting when he was 15. His mix of big emotion and clear structure is remarkable and has contributed to his swift rise to fame. Filmfritz are spending two years with Orozco-Estrada; they will accompany him on a trip back home to Colombia; and they will be there with their camera when he takes up his new jobs as music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Contact: Nina Hetzer, TV producer hetzer@filmfritz.de www.filmfritz.de
Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande opened the 2008-2009 season at La Monnaie. At the time, director Pierre Audi received much praise for the way in which he visualized the uncanny, mysterious dream world of Maurice Maeterlinck (on whose eponymous play the opera is based). With the action taking place on and around an abstract sculpture by British artist Anish Kapoor, Audi immersed the opera in an explicit sensual atmosphere. La Monnaie has put Pelléas et Mélisande back on the programme this April, with chief conductor Ludovic Morlot at the helm of La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra. The entire opera is to be seen on www.lamonnaie. be from 4 until 24 May.
Vincenzo Bellini: La Straniera, 140 min. HD It was in 1968 when she made her debut as Rosina at the National Theater in Bratislava. 45 years later, the great Edita Gruberova sang Bellinis rarely performed opera La Straniera at Vienna Musikverein. The brilliance of her voice and her techniques enchanted the audiences and lead to standing ovations – the same success as after the debut-performance of her Straniera at Philharmonie im Gasteig in 2012. Gioacchino Rossini: La Cambiale di Matrimonio, 80 min. HD This early masterpiece of Gioacchino Rossini speaks as a prelude to other Rossini one-act operas and foreshadows what is to come in his later works: strong stage instincts and a psychological understanding of his characters. The intimate setting of the Vienna chamber opera is particularly well suited to underline this brilliant oeuvre.
©Bernd Uhlig
Summer Gala Concert – Grafenegg 2013, 90 min. HD Each year, the majestic Wolkenturm in Grafenegg serves as a stage for many great concerts, to the gain of the Austrian music scene and far beyond. The first group of well-known artists this year consists of soprano Karita Mattila, bassbaritone Luca Pisaroni and Austrian percussion virtuoso Martin Grubinger, who will perform together with the Tonkünstler under Andrés Orozco-Estrada. For further information, please contact marion.camus-oberdorfer@orf.at Head of Content Sales International http://contentsales.ORF.at
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Peter Rosen Productions Peter Rosen, producer/director at Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. in New York has begun production on a documentary about 24-year-old blind Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii. The as yet untitled film has illustrated "Nobu's" American tour held in March, and will include his tour in May and June to the areas of Japan devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami where Nobu has been a hero since performing charity concerts there since the disaster. Completion is set for late 2013. Production funding has been provided by Avex Entertainment. Distributor/broadcaster partners are welcome! This is the third collaboration between Peter Rosen and Nobuyuki Tsujii after A Surprise in Texas on his 2009 Van Cliburn victory, and his 2011 Carnegie Hall debut, both of which are distributed by EuroArts, are best-sellers on Blu Ray/ DVD and have been broadcast throughout the world.
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The new film will be dedicated to those who lost their lives in the tsunami and earthquake.
Contact: rosenprod@aol.com www.peterrosenproductions.com
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ZDF Music Productions On ARTE
50th International Televisi- col legno & Ernst von Sieon Festival Golden Prague mens Music Foundation
The Wagner Spring
12 – 16 Oct. 2013 | Zofin Palace, Prague
12 May 2013, 06:30 pm, ARTE Wagner in der Schweiz: Siegfried-Idyll und Wesendonck-Lieder With Elisabeth Kulman, Eduard Kutrowatz, and soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra 26 May 2013, 06:30 pm, ARTE MAESTRO: Wagner-Geburtstagskonzert aus der Dresdner Semperoper With Jonas Kaufmann and Wagner’s „wonder harp“, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor Christian Thielemann is celebrating the composer’s birthday with the overtures and tenor scenes from the operas the orchestra once premiered: Rienzi, Der fliegende Holländer and Tannhäuser. 27 Mai 2013, 00:45 am, ARTE ALW Klassik: Wagner-Geburtstagskonzert: Christian Thielemann dirigiert die Staatskapelle Dresden The second part of the concert, featuring music by Richard Wagner and Hans Werner Henze
what’s on…
Besides Mariss Jansons’ Music Prize 2013, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is annually awarding three young composers. This year’s CompoReminder - Call For Competition And sers’ Prize Winners are David Philip Non-Competition Programmes Hefti, Samy Moussa and Marko Nikodijevic. Categories: The award ceremony will take place on 4 1) Documentary programmes dedicated June 2013 in Munich. to music and dance 2) Performing Arts (Recordings of opera, operetta, musicals, dance, ballet, concerts, etc.) Conditions: Only programmes produced after 15 April 2012 will be accepted for competition. Maximum number of programmes per entrant: 5. Maximum total length of all Mariss Jansons, St. Petersburg, 2012. Photo: Manu programmes entered by a single ent- Theobald ©Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung rant: unlimited. Minimum length of each programme: 5 minutes Since 2012, col legno is producing auEntry forms deadline: 15 May 2013 dio recordings in cooperation with the Programmes submission deadline: 31 foundation. May 2013 In addition to receiving financial supPersonal registration deadline: 15 Sep- port the winners of the Ernst von Sietember 2013 mens Music Foundation’s Composers’ Prize will also be supported with the The International Jury of the jubilee production of their own portrait CD. 50th ITF Golden Prague For the realization of the series it has Chairwoman: Hazel Wright, Hazel been possible to enlist ensembles like Wright Media, United Kingdom London Sinfonietta, Ensemble interconMembers: temporain, musikFabrik Köln, Ensemble Arild Erikstad, NRK, Norway Modern, Arditti Quartet et al. David Marecek, Czech Philharmonic, Czech Republic Further information Henk van der Meulen, Royal Conservawww.col-legno.com toire of The Hague, Netherlands Reiner Moritz, Poorhouse Internatiowww.evs-musikstiftung.ch nal, Germany The ITF GP team is looking forward to presenting your programmes in Prague! Check the updates at the new festival website www.festivalgoldenprague.cz
festival/competition news
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Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition 2013: 75 participants
Accentus Music
ServusTV
Silver Hugo For John Cage – Journeys In Sound
ROMY For Karajan – The Second Life
Accentus Music’s documentary John Cage – Journeys in Sound has been awarded with its fourth award in six months: The Accentus Music production in co-production with WDR was granted “Best Documentary in Arts/ Humanities” at the 2013 Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards ceremony, held on 23 April 2013. It was expressly chosen from a multitude of domestic and international submissions.
Of the record number of 283 candidates whose DVD’s have been screened by the preselection jury in February 2013, 75 have been admitted to the first public round of this year’s piano competition. Find out the names and nationalities of the candidates on www.qeimc.be. Chaired by Arie Van Lysebeth, the international preselection jury was composed of Diane Andersen, Peter Frankl, David Lively, Anne Queffélec, Staffan Scheja and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. By 3 May, the names of the other jury www.accentus.com members will be announced, as well as the order of appearance of the candidates in the first round, taking place from 6 to 11 May at Flagey in Brussels. 24 candidates will go through to the semi-final (13 – 18 May), where they will be accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie and Michael Hofstetter. The 12 finalists will perform from 27 May – 1 June at the Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts with the National Orchestra of Belgium, conducted by Marin Alsop. Edo de Waart will conduct deFilharmonie with the three top prize winners on 17 June. The other three laureates will take the stage on 13 June with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Patrick Davin.
The documentary Karajan – The second Life by director Eric Schulz has been awarded with the prestigious Austrian ROMY TV Award: Frank Gerdes, head of culture at ServusTV, won the category “Best producer TV”. After “Best TV documentary” (for Hubert von Goiserns Wirtshaustour) in 2012, this is the second ROMY for ServusTV. www.servustv.com/karajan www.kurier.at/romy
All IMZ members are warmly invited to attend the competition sessions and the laureates’ concerts. Please contact Michel-Etienne Van Neste, SecretaryGeneral of the Competition: mevanneste@qeimc.be. ©ServusTV | From left to right: Frank Gerdes, Isabel Karajan, Eric Schulz at the award giving ceremony in Vienna on 18 April 2013
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Swiping Through Wagner’s Life When Richard Wagner died on 13 February, 1883 in the arms of his wife Cosima, not only the life of one of the greatest musical geniuses of all times ended, but also a biography of fraud, evasion, adultery, anti-semitism and a bizarre relationship with King Ludwig II. Who was Richard Wagner? WAGNER FILES – The App (produced by gebrueder beetz filmproduction; funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Media, MDM) approaches this question on a new level and explores exciting new ways of storytelling: by the fusion of animations, videos, historical letters, music scores and photographs, Wagner is experienced in a completely new light. Wagner’s life is told in the manner of a Graphic Novel, spread out over 41 pages with 240 animated images. 60 minutes of original Wagner music and around 40 historical documents are embedded in the narrative which the user can access via interactive points. The user decides how he wants to experience the story: reading it by swiping through the pages – or listening by activating the
Syquali Crossmedia Wagner App For iPhone and iPad Richard Wagner In Switzerland A presentation of Wagner's whereabouts in Switzerland trough app and web. Now Available in iTunes! Richard Wagner lived and worked in Zurich from 1849 to 1858. Formative years for the composer… In this period, he drafted essential aesthetic writings and composed Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, ©AlbertHulm voices of the actors Pegah Ferydoni two acts of the opera Siegfried, and beand Samuel Finzi. Numerous special gan to work on the whole cycle of Der features like an interactive map, the Ring der Nibelungen. “music machine” by the American music animator Stephen Malinowski Follow Richard Wagor interviews with leading Wagner ex- ner on his extenperts add up to a complex image of sive walking tours through Switzerland this controversial composer. by means of film, WAGNER FILES – The App was deve- music, and audio loped in the Crossmedia-Department text. of gebrueder beetz filmproduction and is part of the cross-medial production The Culture Files, consisting of the Graphic Novel Wagner (print) published by Knesebeck on 11 June, and the documentary The Wagner Files (90/52min), broadcasted on ARTE on 22 May and on SWR on 29 May 2013.
The animating audio guide provides profound information about the composer, his relationships, his living, working and recreational places in Zurich. Maps lead to Wagner-hotspots in the city and show Wagner’s routes across the Swiss Alps. Developed and produced by Syquali WAGNER FILES - The App will be availa- Crossmedia AG. ble on the App Store for Wagner’s 200th Co-produced by Festspiele Zürich. birthday on 22 May. As a special birthday present, the App will be available for More information free on 22 May until 11:59pm. www.syquali.ch/en/ More information info@gebrueder-beetz.de www.beetz-brothers.eu
©FlaviaScuderi
„happy birthday, richard wagner!“
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Classical:NEXT! Festival Only 3 weeks to go: From 29 May to 1 June 2013, the new international forum for classical music of all styles and periods, Classical:NEXT, will take place in Vienna! The venues: The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts is the central venue for the expositions and conferences, expert panels, mentoring rounds, video presentations and networking meetings. In addition, the Porgy & Bess music club and the famous Musikverein Vienna offer stages and platforms for various showcase concerts. Enjoy the Next Generation in Classical Music: The new public Classical:NEXT Festival is launched in parallel to and as part of Classical:NEXT, presenting altogether 20 international artists – newcomers, exceptional talents and unusual ensembles. FOTO Rina Kaçinari, Benjamin Schmid ©Rainer Gregor Eckharter In co-operation with the IMZ – International Music + Media Centre, the two exclusive movie screenings Kinshasa Symphony (30 May, 06:00 pm) and Culture Files: Wagner & Beethoven (31 May, 06:00 pm) will be shown as special features at the MAK. Further Highlights: 28 May, at the Chaya Fuera music club: The YELLOW LOUNGE– promoted in co-operation with Universal Music Austria and featuring top stars of the classical music scene like pianist Alice Sara Ott or tenor Piotr Beczala 30 & 31 May, at the Porgy & Bess: Classical:NEXT showcase nights
European Festivals Association Launches The Festival Academy
1 June, at the Porgy & Bess: The Austria Sounds Great! finale, a musical evening presented by the Austrian culture radio On 18 April 2013, the European Festivals Oe1 and the Vienna Music Group Association (EFA) launched The FesWho else is coming to Classical:NEXT? tival Academy during its 2013 General Check the current delegate list: www. Assembly in Granada, Spain. “The true classicalnext.com/delegates/who_is_ role of a festival is to help artists to dare, to engage in new projects” is a statecoming ment by Bernard Faivre d’Arcier (former All about the Classical: NEXT 2013 in Director Avignon Festival) that serves as the motto of The Festival Academy. Vienna: It offers various training formats for www.classicalnext.com festival management to young, dynamic www.classicalnext.com/festival and passionate festival makers worldwww.facebook.com/classicalnext wide. Its mission is to share, exchange and construct know-how on festival management focusing on the essence of festivals – the art and the artist – and Donau-Universität Krems touching upon all artistic disciplines. The Festival Academy is ambitious to The second Master’s Course in Music develop and sustain a network of festifor Film & Media will be launched on val leaders of the future. 14 October 2013 at Danube University Krems. The programme addresses com- Read more... posers, musicians, sound and media artists, music producers, and musicologists interested in pursuing graduate mdw – Universität für Mustudies and professional training with sik und darstellende Kunst focus on music for film, TV, online media, interactive games, and sonic bran- Wien: New Chair Elected ding for businesses and commercial The IMZ’s hearty congratulations go to applications. The programme also surveys key as- Haide Tenner, the new chair of the univerpects of management, entrepreneur- sity board! ship, creative leadership, and networ- Haide Tenner studied musicology, dramatics and history of art in Vienna. In 1972 she king for composers and media artists. joined Austrian television network ORF as a radio and TV journalist and has since heaFurther information ded the departments of arts TV and music for classical music radio station Ö1, coordinated the classical music programme for all of the station’s channels and, from 2003, managed the Radio Symphonieorchester Vienna. Since 2008 she has been working as a cultural manager and journalist. www.mdw.ac.at
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Prince Claus Fund For Cul- Rose d’Or ture And Development Nominees Unveiled Current Call: Rethinking Public Space The Prince Claus Fund welcomes project proposals for cultural initiatives related to the rethinking of public space. Through this call, the Prince Claus Fund aims to support creative cultural initiatives that re-think, re-appropriate and/ or re-use the public space in innovative and new ways. The proposed projects should be linked to the local context. The Prince Claus Fund is particularly interested in projects that facilitate freedom of expression, stimulate dialogue and encourage cultural exchange. The Fund has a five-year focus on the theme of culture and conflict and encourages project proposals related to this theme. This call is open to individuals and organisations based in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
This year, Rose d’Or Awards will be given in the following categories: Game Show, Reality & Factual Entertainment, Sitcom, Comedy, Entertainment, and Arts. Nominees come from as far afield as Australia, USA, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The UK leads the field with 10 programmes submitted to the final round of judging. List of nominees The winners will be decided at the 52nd Rose d’Or Awards, which will be held in Brussels on 30 May 2013. www.rosedor.com
World Creators Summit Presented by CISAC, The World Creators Summit (formerly known as World Copyright Summit), will take place in Washington DC at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center on 4 and 5 June 2013 (with an opening cocktail party on 3 June). Now in its fourth edition, this biennial event aims at establishing a constructive dialogue, exchange ideas, debate diverse viewpoints and discuss the remedies linked to intellectual property and creative content online with all the stakeholders in the new digital economy, from creators, rights organizations and guilds, to content service providers, broadcasters, telecommunications operators, hardware manufacturers, legal experts and policymakers. Want to know more about the 2-day conference programme? Do not hesitate to visit the Summit website www.creatorssummit.com.
Who can apply? Find further info, rules and regulations (plus examples of projects funded by the Prince Claus Fund in previous calls) here. The deadline for submission of projects is 15 May 2013.
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dance screen Special Post-It Notes Andrea Eidenhammer, the director of the crossing limits dance video series (the first part of which has been entered for competition at DanceScreen Festival San Fransisco) is producing a trilogy (with dancer Emma Garau) at different spectacular locations. Andrea and her team are currently preparing the next two productions for July 2013, one at an oil platform in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea and the other one in Graz, Austria. Production partners are welcome! For further information and a dossier of the trilogy, please contact: info@andreaeidenhammer.com www.andreaeidenhammer.com
Mark Freeman, who has entered the film Queens Dream in the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, has begun the production of a documentary about contemporary Indonesian choreography. Recently, he shot an interview with Indonesian film director Garin Nugroho and performance footage for the third part of his Opera Jawa triology. Read more More about Mark www.markfreemanfilms.org
La ignorancia dance film music AGENDA From January to June, the dance film CinĂŠtica will be screened at the Arts Brookfield of New York. The dance film Triptych for an unbalanced society is included in the Agite y Sirva 2013 touring screendance festival and has been selected for the videodance festival Palma amb la Danza 2013, Palma de Mallorca. The short film La peur will be screened at Festival Cine Latino, Germany. Contact: Ana Cembrero Coca, artistic director ana@laignorancia.com www.laignorancia.com
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