Outstanding Young Artist Award
The Outstanding Young Artist Award is one of the principle awards at the MIDEM Classique Awards, presented by the MIDEM / IAMA partnership each year in Cannes during the MIDEM international media trade show. The award aims to introduce the as yet unsigned recording stars of the future to the Classical recording industry, and is central to the Young International Performers (YIP) programme run by IAMA for not-for-profit organisations who nurture young musicians at the beginnings of their careers.
Call for nominations from the IAMA non-profit members: 2010 MIDEM/IAMAOutstanding Young Artist Award
We are inviting nominations from all IAMA non-profit members for the 2010 IAMA/Midem Outstanding Young Artist Award, to be presented in Cannes in January 2010. The jury process remains the same as last year, with all candidates' recordings (unedited) being submitted to IAMA to forward to a panel of 5 IAMA members internationally, who then select a shortlist of finalists. These finalists then submit the same recording to the full Midem Classique Awards jury, made up of international music journalists and editors from specialist music magazines and radio stations. The jury members vote to select an outright winner, who then performs at the Awards ceremony, and from 2010 onwards may be offered engagements at a number of European venues as a part of the prize. award. An international jury of IAMA members listens to unedited recordings of each artist, and selects the finalists. The 19-strong MIDEM Classique Awards Jury, an international panel mainly consisting of specialist music magazine and radio journalists, then listens to the finalists, and votes for the winner, who then performs at the awards ceremony in Cannes. IAMA is represented on the MIDEM Classique Awards Jury by Board member, Christian May.
The criteria which all candidates must fulfill is available from the IAMA office on request. Closing date is 22 September 2009.
The 2009 winner is Flautist, Adam Walker. In 2008, the winners were the Navarra String Quartet who received a lot of interest as have all previous winners including Elizabeth Watts, Yosiff Ivanov and Llyr Willams.
IAMA is awaiting confirmation of its jury and this will be posted on-line in due course.
Midem Jury 2009
Aarno CRONVALL, Executive Producer. CLASSIC RADIO (Finland)
Bernadette BEYNE, Editor-in-Chief, CRESCENDO (Belgium)
Bjørn WOLL, Editor-in-Chief, FONO FORUM (Germany)
Attila RETKES, Managing Director / Editor-in-Chief , GRAMOFON (Hungary)
Christian MAY, Director, IAMA (Austria)
Franz PATAY, Secretary General, IMZ (Austria)
Matthias BRIXEL, Managing Director, KLASSIK.COM (Germany)
Martin HOFFMEISTER, Deputy Head of Music Department, MDR (Germany)
Stephen HASTINGS, Editor, MUSICA (Italy)
Andrea Meuli, Editor-in-Chief, MUSIK & THEATER (Switzerland)
Christian Scheib, Head of Music Department, ORF (Austria)
Rémy FRANCK, Editor-in-Chief, PIZZICATO (Luxembourg)
Francis DRÉSEL, Directeur de la programmation musicale, RADIO CLASSIQUE (France)
Luis SUNÉN, Director, SCHERZO (Spain)
James JOLLY, Editor-in-Chief, THE GRAMOPHONE (United Kingdom)
