ICMA Composer Award for Hefti
The composer and conductor David Philip Hefti will receive the Composer Award of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in April 2023.
Hefti's tonal language is characterized by an "enormously broad spectrum of expressive means. Bright timbres and dramatic constructions". The spectrum of genres in which the composer expresses himself is also broad, so that "his music reaches both performers and a wide audience", quotes Hefti's PR agency PR2 Classic jury president Remy Franck.
David Philip Hefti was born in Switzerland in 1975. He studied composition, conducting, clarinet and chamber music at the music academies in Zurich and Karlsruhe. In 2013, he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composer Prize and in 2015 the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) were founded in 2010 by the jury of the former Midem Classical Awards. Every year, prizes are awarded for audio and video productions as well as a series of special prizes (Lifetime Achivement, Artist of the Year, Young Artist of the Year, Label of the Year).
