2024 Competition Jury
Michael Fine
Netherlands
GRAMMY Award winning Classical Producer of the Year (1992), Michael Fine is widely acknowledged as one of the top classical recording producers in the world. In addition to recording production, Fine has been active in artistic planning for orchestras including the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Gergiev Festival Rotterdam where he served as Artistic Manager, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France where he was Interim Artistic Director and with the Seoul Philharmonic where he was Artistic Advisor. Formerly Vice President of Artists & Repertoire at Deutsche Grammophon, he was the first American to hold the post of Artistic Director of the hundred-year-old label. Fine also has given lectures, talks, and seminars about the music and recording business – from the Juilliard School and Hamburg Hochschule für Musik, to the keynote address at the International Organisation of Music Competitions, and served as a juror on several music competition panels.
Fine remains active as a clarinetist with engagements at Festival Mozaic in California and the Tongyeong Music Festival in South Korea. He began composing in 2013: his music, including several concertos, string quartets and a variety of works for chamber ensembles is published by Le Chant du Monde in Paris and Donemus in The Netherlands. His music has been performed all over the world including premieres in the United States, France, Spain Germany, Scotland, Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, South Korea, among others, and Cuba where Michael was composer in residence at the first two editions of Habana Clásic.
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Michael Fine
Netherlands
GRAMMY Award winning Classical Producer of the Year (1992), Michael Fine is widely acknowledged as one of the top classical recording producers in the world. In addition to recording production, Fine has been active in artistic planning for orchestras including the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Gergiev Festival Rotterdam where he served as Artistic Manager, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France where he was Interim Artistic Director and with the Seoul Philharmonic where he was Artistic Advisor. Formerly Vice President of Artists & Repertoire at Deutsche Grammophon, he was the first American to hold the post of Artistic Director of the hundred-year-old label. Fine also has given lectures, talks, and seminars about the music and recording business – from the Juilliard School and Hamburg Hochschule für Musik, to the keynote address at the International Organisation of Music Competitions, and served as a juror on several music competition panels.
Fine remains active as a clarinetist with engagements at Festival Mozaic in California and the Tongyeong Music Festival in South Korea. He began composing in 2013: his music, including several concertos, string quartets and a variety of works for chamber ensembles is published by Le Chant du Monde in Paris and Donemus in The Netherlands. His music has been performed all over the world including premieres in the United States, France, Spain Germany, Scotland, Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, South Korea, among others, and Cuba where Michael was composer in residence at the first two editions of Habana Clásic.
finesoundproductions.com
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