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NEWSLETTER MARCH 2010
IMZ INTERNAL NEWS• ELECTION OF THE IMZ EXECUTIVE BOARD 2011
• “GOLDEN PRAGUE PREMIERES 2010” - IMZ AT THE 47TH
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!
• 47TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE
• EUROARTS MUSIC INTERNATIONAL BEST OF THE FESTIVALS
• 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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The IMZ Executive Board will be elected by all IMZ members in a two-step
election procedure. Find the Candidacy Declaration Form, which you have to
fill in, if you want to be a candidate for the Board: here.
The closing date for receipt of the candidacy declaration form at the IMZ is
30 June 2010.
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IMZ INTERNAL NEWSElection of the IMZ Executive Board 2011
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”:
“Golden Prague Premieres 2010” - IMZ at the 47th ITF Golden Prague - CALL for ENTRY
On three different evenings six IMZ members will have the possibility to
present their latest programme to the professional audience of the festival.
For the “Golden Prague Premieres 2010” we are looking for music and
dance television programmes and films, which have not had their premiere
yet.
Deadline for submitting programmes: 31 May 2010
For further information, please contact Katharina Jeschke 1at the IMZ office
([email protected]), 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
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.
You may submit any world music programme that has not been presented at
WOMEX before. We are looking for undeniable cinematic quality – a film that
grabs and moves the viewer, with an intriguing storyline, dramatic composition,
strong visuals and first-rate camera work. We welcome new/unheard/unseen
subjects and niches but are open to established artists as well. In addition the
quality of the music itself is most important and one of the key criteria for the
selection process.
Your proposals may be submitted online here
For full details go to the Application Info or contact: [email protected].
The proposed entries may also become part of our “World music film on Tour”-
distribution project.
For more information click here.
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IMZ World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX 2010
CALL FOR ENTRY!
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
Copenhagen (WMF CPH) to become the local production partner. First and foremost
Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and Wonderful Copenhagen. The other principal
members comprise the Danish Center for Culture and Development (CKU/DCCD),
Global Copenhagen and World Music Denmark in cooperation with Welcome Meeting
Management.
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
presented 57 acts including 340 artists on 6 stages and 23 Conference Sessions.
www.womex.com
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.
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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.
dance screen at Cinedans 2010!
CALL FOR ENTRY!
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!
F i n d m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n o n
www.dancescreen.com
If you have any further questions, please don’t
hesitate to contact Katharina Jeschke from the IMZ office at [email protected] or telephone
+43-1-889 03 15.
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
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47TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE: 16 – 20 OCTOBER 2010, ZOFIN PALACE,
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.
Only programmes produced after 15 April 2009 will be accepted for competition.
Maximum number of programmes per entrant: 5
Maximum total length of all programmes entered by
a single entrant: unlimited
Minimum length of each programme: 5 minutes
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.
The videolibrary:
fee: 60 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
Personal registration (Deadline: 15 September 2010)
is free of charge!
Enjoy a golden October in Prague! The team of the 47th ITF Golden Prague is looking forward to
welcoming you…
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EUROARTS MUSIC INTERNATIONAL BEST
OF THE FESTIVALS
EuroArts proudly presents programme highlights of the
two most famous classical music festivals worldwide.
Lucerne Festival 2009
Traditionally in August, the whole classical music world
looks to Lucerne/Switzerland. Again EuroArts Music – in
co-production with ZDF/ARTE, NHK and SF – produced
two concert programmes of the Lucerne Festival
Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Claudio Abbado. In
his 7th year of conducting “his” orchestra, this liaison
marks the highlight of the whole festival period, slowly but
surely completing an incomparable Mahler cycle.
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 twenty-
two years old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang.
Produced by: EuroArts Music International, in co-
production 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
Symphony No. 4 and world-renowned singer Magdalena
Kožená performs Mahler’s Rückert Lieder.
Produced by: EuroArts Music International, in co-
production with ZDF/ARTE and NHK. Format: HD.
Programme number: 5798
Verbier Festival 2009
The Idéale Audience production of the very best of
Verbier Festival 2009 pictures – in sixteen programmes –
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
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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
For further information and distribution details, please contact Ulrike Siebert,
Head of Marketing & Communications, [email protected]
www.euroarts.com
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
productions. I'm much obliged to Bernd Hellthaler, the founder of EuroArts,
for letting me implement successfully my tasks and all my projects.
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”
Bernd Hellthaler will take over all production activities at EuroArts
under his direct leadership therefore if you have any inquiries and
questions regarding:
– upcoming productions and new projects please contact Bernd
Hellthaler, [email protected]
– contractual matters please get in touch with Andreas Mann,
EuroArts Music International GmbH
Bundesallee 39-40
10717 Berlin
You can contact Paul Smaczny via the IMZ office.
C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT BREAKING NEWS
The German Record Critics’ Award: C Major
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;
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Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana) is awarded by
the Quarterly Critics' Choice of the German Record
Critics' Award. (Length: 244’. Format: HD. TV
Director: Tiziano Mancini. Production: Unitel. TV
Distribution: C Major Entertainment.)
Kinshasa Symphony at Berlinale: The film
Kinshasa Symphony about the only symphony
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
this very special way towards Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony. The film and its story have touched our
hearts …”.
F i nd more de t a i l ed i n fo rmat ion a t
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.
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: [email protected], or telephone: +49-
(0)30-30306464.
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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.
For further details, please contact Katja Raths,
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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.
«This is extraordinarily brutal dance music» declared British magazine Melody
Maker in 1987 when rewarding Swiss band The Young Gods with the award “album
of the year”. The group had only begun making music two years earlier in a shared
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.
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
where they rebuild their sampling technology, which they had become so famous
for. Lonely Pioneers is a film about extraordinary musicians and their passion for
their work.
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 [email protected] or
telephone +41 44 305 58 09. www.sfs.tv
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.
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ALFRED BRENDEL & KIT ARMSTRONG: MASTER &
APPRENTICE The film will be about the managing and nurturing of great talent,
the relationship between an old master – who has an appealing childish quality about
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
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
clearly played a crucial part in making their link so special.
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,
Contact details
Hazel Wright Media Ltd.
London office:
57, Nero Court, Justin Close, Brentford Dock, Middlesex, TW8 8QB.
Tel: +44(0) 203 255 3032
mobile: +44 (0) 7715690020
skype: hazelmwright1
Irish office:
Tig na Carrige, Toormore, Goleen, West Cork. [email protected]
Tel: +353 (0) 28 35185
mobile: +353 (0)86 3218 223
skype: max.sammann
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CHANGE OF ADDRESS
PARS MEDIA GMBH
Please note the company’s NEW ADDRESS:
PARS Media GmbH
Arcisstr. 68
80801 München
and
PARS Media GmbH
Oranienburger Str. 18
10178 Berlin
Email: [email protected]
Amongst PARS Media’s latest productions: Andreas Gursky: Total und Close and
Chopin at the Opera, both films by Jan Schmidt-Garre. Latest Laurels: Jan Schmidt-
Garre's film Celibidache – You don't do anything, you let it evolve received the
MIDEM Classical Award 2010. If you are interested in further information, please
contact [email protected] or visit the company’s website www.parsmedia.com.
THE MET ANNOUNCED 2010-11 SEASON
Seven new productions, including two company premieres, headline the Metropolitan
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
plans for the Met premieres of John Adams’s Nixon in China and Rossini’s Le Comte
Ory, the first two installments of Robert Lepage’s new production of Wagner’s epic
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
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
Sher, director of Le Comte Ory, will return for his third production there following
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
history, will conduct six operas across a range of repertory. The Met will celebrate the
music director’s extraordinary, record-breaking Met career with historical DVD and
CD releases of his performances, as well as a new documentary film about the
maestro by award-winning director Susan Froemke. Levine will launch the 2010-11
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
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Terfel in his first appearance as Wotan in the U.S. and Stephanie Blythe as Fricka. On
the actual date of his anniversary, 5 June, Levine will conduct Don Carlo with the
company on tour in Japan.
The Met’s conducting roster will feature a number of notable debut artists in the
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.
Last but not least, Angela Gheorghiu comes back for Gounod’s Juliette for the first
time since 1998, and Marcelo Álvarez again sings the title role in Il Trovatore. Read
more here (www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/press/detail.aspx?id=11432), and
find further information on The Met’s new productions and role debuts, the twenty-
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!
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SFS: MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS AWARDED NATIONAL MEDAL
OF ARTS
Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, has been
selected to receive the National Medal of Arts, the US’s highest award for artistic
achievement. The award was presented by President Barack Obama Thursday
afternoon, 25 February at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS, established by Congress in 1984, is
awarded by the President and managed by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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,
reviews the nominations and provides recommendations to the President, who
selects the recipients.
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
is acclaimed as a conductor, composer and educator. Currently in his 15th season as
music director of the San Francisco Symphony, he is also the Founder and Artistic
Director of the New World Symphony, the premier orchestral academy for gifted
young musicians. With a background that includes grandparents, Boris and Bessie
Thomashefsky, founding members of the Yiddish Theater in America, and working
relationships with legendary composers of the 20th century, such as Igor Stravinsky,
Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas’s wide ranging
perspectives on music have won him respect and trust among musicians and
audiences worldwide.
He conducts and has recorded musical works ranging from Bach, Tchaikovsky and
Beethoven to Gershwin, Ives and Reich. The recordings of the complete Mahler
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
Symphony No. 8 and the Adagio from Symphony No. 10. (See IMZ Newsletter
February 2010!)
For more information on Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony, their
current plans and projecs, especially the Keeping Score Project including the nationally
televised PBS series, radio programming, interactive websites and a K-12 education
programme, all designed to make classical music more accessible to people of all ages
and musical backgrounds, please visit www.sfsymphony.org
20TH IAMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
22 – 24 April 2010, Cité de la Musique, Paris
The forthcoming IAMA conference entitled “Around Us” (or
“Environ” in the French context) directs a focus onto issues of
environment. It is a term that embraces the broad concept of
man’s interaction with his surroundings and the impact it has on
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
Bris (Chairman), Director, CLB Management; Emmanuel
Hondré, Director of Production, Cité de la Musique & Salle
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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
it sits. The 19th arrondissement is historically a working-class area of Paris. Culturally it’s been rather
derelict, so the venue has had to think hard about how to attract people. The panel sessions at the
conference will take this into consideration and examine environmental areas in architectural, social,
digital and cultural terms.
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.
IAMA launched its first conference twenty years ago. At the time the association, chaired by Joeske
van Walsum, thought that it would be a good idea to present a conference. When the decision was
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
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!
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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.
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 [email protected].
Caribbean Music Group Ltd.3A Queen's Park WestPort of Spain
Trinidad and Tobago West IndiesTel: +1 868 625 4829Mobile: +1 868 681 5363 http://caribbeanmusicgroup.com,http://trinidadtunes.com, http://calypsorosediva.com
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
1,000m² each. 36 apartments and 50 rooms housed the 120 people’s total crew, coming from 22 countries! Half of that
crew are artists – half are technical and medical staff. From January 2009 till end of March 2010, they lived, trained,
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.
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For more information, please contact:
Gabriel Fehervari, CEO Alfacam, CEO
Euro1080
Fabriekstraat 38
2547 Lint
Tel: +32 3 4542010
www.alfacam.com
www.euro1080.tv
THE BANFF INTERNATIONAL PILOTS COMPETITION CALL
FOR ENTRIES
Motivated by the great success of the 2009 Banff World Television Awards, The Banff
World Television Festival is proud to announce a new competition for the 2010 season
that aims to honour those with the talent and motivation to create a series pilot.
The inaugural Banff International Pilots Competition aims to recognize the talent and
creativity it takes to conceptualise and create a pilot, be it online or on television. The
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
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.
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AMA SUPPORTS ARTISTS MOBILITY WITHIN AFRICA
Bayimba Cultural Foundation and Art Moves Africa (AMA) are pleased to
inform artists living in Africa who are planning to participate in the 3rd
Edition of Bayimba International Festival of Music and Arts, (Kampala/
Uganda) to apply for an AMA mobility grant before 1 May 2010.
Applicants will be informed, by mid June, if their applications to AMA are
successful
For more information on the AMA mobility fund application
visit www.artmovesafrica.org and download the application form from
www.bayimba.org.
PALAU DE LES ARTS APPOINTS OMER M.
WELLBER AS NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is pleased to announce that Omer
M. Wellber will be the new Music Director of the Orquestra de
la Comunitat Valenciana. His tenure will begin with the 2011-12
season after Maestro Lorin Maazel’s contract expires. Omer M.
Wellber’s contract as Music Director will last until the
2013-2014 season. In season 2010-2011, Maestro Wellber will
already join the orquestra as Principal Guest Conductor,
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
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German, Italian and French music. He has conducted several premieres at the Israeli Opera,
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
Tel Aviv has consolidated his position in the world music scene. Omer M. Wellber has also been
invited by Maestro Daniel Barenboim to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin). He conducted the
Israel Sinfonietta, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, the
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Awarded with the
Riccardo Muti prize for young conductors, Omer M. Wellber was also chosen as one of 2008 up-and-
coming artists in Italy by the Classic Voice Magazine.
www.lesarts.com
A TEXTBOOK OF CULTURAL ECONOMICS
BY RUTH TOWSE
(Bournemouth University. Hardback. ISBN-13: 9780521888721)
What determines the price of a pop concert or an opera? Why
does Hollywood dominate the film industry? Does illegal
downloading damage the record industry? Does free entry to
museums bring in more visitors? In A Textbook of Cultural
Economics, one of the world’s leading cultural economists
shows how we can use the theories and methods of
economics to answer these and a host of other questions
concerning the arts (performing arts, visual arts and literature),
heritage (museums and built heritage) and creative industries
(the music, publishing and film industries, broadcasting). Read
more on http://www.cambridge.org/.
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MONACO DANCE FORUM AND LES BALLETS DE MONTE-CARLO
From 1 – 17 April 2010, the Monaco Dance Forum and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo will present their
second series of performances and events
at the Grimaldi Forum, focused around the National Celebration of the Centenary of Les Ballets
Russes in the Principality of Monaco.
After a successful Act I winter season which brought around 25 000 spectators to enter the vast
world of Les Ballets Russes repertoire, the Festival and the 50 dancers of the Monegasque company
continue to assert their complementarity in a powerful way, yet again offering a large audience an Act
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
participation of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Yakov Kreizberg, will
present a choreography focused around Daphnis and Chloe by Jean-Christophe Maillot along with
Ernest Pignon-Ernest and Jérôme Kaplan. Also presented will be another version of Le Spectre de la
Rose by Olivier Dubois, quite an original one as it will involve olfactory senses in collaboration with
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
and Jérôme Deschamps, for the first time in Monaco – a
theatre incarnate for the creators of the Logoscope – the
ghost instruments of Xavier Le Roy – or otherwise the new
Flamenco of Israel Galvàn.
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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together the most eminent specialists for an artistic, medical and scientific discussion centering
around the question of the body in mouvement.
Find all schedules of performances, as well as further programme information on:
www.monacodanceforum.com / www.balletsdemontecarlo.com