​Bryan Cheng won 2nd prize and the David Geringas Special Prize in the prestigious TONALi Cello Competition 2018. In addition, he was awarded a Special Prize of the Hamburgische Vereinigung von  Freunden der Kammermusik for for an outstanding chamber music round. In the sold out finals, Bryan Cheng concertized with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Joshua Weilerstein in the Great Hall of the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. Congratulations!!

(all photo credit: Swanhild Kruckelmann)

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​The performance of the Quartetto di Cremona at the instore live event at Tower Records in Shibuya, a city district of Tokyo, on July 7th 2018 was a great success! The ensemble played movements 1, 2 & 4 from Beethoven's String Quartet No. 8 and talked in the interviews about their CD recordings, Beethoven and the Complete Edition of his string quartets. The event took place on the occasion of the release of the 8 SACD boxed set of this edition in Japan.

A big thank you to our Japanese distribution partner King International who organized this and all  other events around the QdC's concert tour in Japan so well and with such great care!

​​​On September 26th, Franziska Pietsch will presents two new recordings at once in Berlin: Her new solo album with works by Bartók, Prokofjev and Ysaÿe which is released on November 2nd, and her first duo recording with pianist Josu de Solaun. Their interpretation of violin sonatas by Strauss and Shostakovich will be released in spring 2019.

The program of the album release concert on September 26th includes solo works by Bartók, Prokofjew and Ysaÿe and, as a preview on the upcoming recording, the complete Violin Sonata Op. 134 by Shostakovich. In the artists' interviews with host Dr. Eleonore Büning the musicians grant insight in their artistic world.

September 26th 2018, 20:00 PM
admission: 19:30 PM
Institut français Berlin
'Maison de France'
Saal Boris Vian
Kurfürstendamm 211, 10719 Berlin

Registration at info@audite.de.

​Every three years, talented Canadian professional classical musicians compete for a chance to borrow one of the 20 legendary instruments from the Canada Council's Musical Instrument Bank.

The Bonjour Stradivari cello, made by Antonio Stradivari ca. 1696, is named after an amateur nineteenth century Parisian cellist, Abel Bonjour, who owned it until his death sometime after 1885. The cello subsequently passed via Stuttgart, Cologne and Switzerland to Martin Lovett, cellist of the celebrated Amadeus Quartet, who owned it for a period of time.The present owner, an anonymous donor, acquired it in 1999 and made it available for the Musical Instrument Bank.

On Saturday, 6th of October 2018, 16:03 pm (rerun Thursday, 11th of October 2018, 22:06 pm), Swiss Radio SRF 2 Kultur will broadcast excerpts of the Beethoven edition to celebrate the 20th birthday of the Swiss Piano Trio. The focus lies on volume V of the Complete Works for Piano Trio by Beethoven, released in October 2018. This volume includes the famous Triple Concerto recorded together with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.

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​A total of 11 audite productions was nominated for the International Music Awards 2019. Among them new releases with Kirill Karabits and the Staatskapelle Weimar, Marc Coppey/Peter Laul, Niek de Groot/Elina Vähälä, Ulrike Hofbauer/Thilo Hirsch and  Christoph Schickedanz. In the field of historical releases productions from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL series (Furtwängler, Milstein/Markevitch/Ansermet) and from the RIAS archive (Ferenc Fricsy, Jorge Bolet Vol. I+II) were nominated.
We are very happy about these nominations!

​The French music magazine ResMusica was founded in 1999 by Christophe Le Gall and is an information website for classical music and dance. The articles published there are written by a team of 50 competent authors from all over Europe and North America.

​A​lso in 2019 audite is honoured with an International Classical Music Award (ICMA). The winner in the category choral is Prokofiev's Revolution Cantata with Kirill Karabits, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the Ernst Senff Chor (rehearsal: Steffen Schubert).

Statement of the jury: "Kirill Karabits frees Prokofiev's October Revolution Cantata from any possible revolutionary pathos, enhancing the satirical and destructive character of the music, which Prokofiev didn't dare to publish. The large ensemble united for this performance delivers a taut and focused sound, superbly caught by the microphones."

After numerous enthusiastic reviews and awards from the international press, the production receives with the ICMA now one of the most important awards of the international music scene. We are very happy about this recognition!

The Award Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place at the KKL in Lucerne, Switzerland, on 10 May 2019, with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster.

The members of the ICMA jury are without exception professional music critics of important magazines, online services and radio stations: Andante (Turkey), Crescendo (Belgium), das Orchester (Germany), Gramofon (Hungary), HRT Croatian Radiotelevision (Croatia), IMZ (Austria), Kultura (Russia) MDR Kultur (Germany), Musica (Italy), Musical Life (Russland), Musik & Theater (Switzerland), Opera (UK), Orpheus Radio (Russia), Pizzicato (Luxembourg), Polskie Radio Chopin (Poland), Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg), Resmusica.com (France), Rondo Classic (Finland), and Scherzo (Spain).