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Lucerne festival

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The I&I Foundation is thrilled to announce the launch of our collaboration with the Lucerne Festival. Starting in summer 2022, we will facilitate the commissioning of new works for the Festival’s Debut series, where the artists will be given an opportunity to have a new work created for their debut recital at the Lucerne Festival! Here is this year’s lineup:…

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Premiere: Ghenadie Rotari performs “Vivisection” by Philipp Christoph Mayer

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The I&I Foundation is extremely proud to present the first premiere of 2022 - Ghenadie Rotari performs “Vivisection” by Philipp Christoph Mayer at Vienna’s “Alte Schmiede” as part of his recital there on February 4th. “Vivisection” was commissioned by the I&I for Ghenadie in 2021 - and completed the same year. We are thrilled for Philipp and Ghenadie and wish...

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The Violin Channel: Ilya Gringolts and Ilan Volkov Launch New Commissioning Foundation

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The Strad: Ilya Gringolts and Ilan Volkov create organisation to match performers and composers

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Ilya explains the philosophy of the I&I Foundation and what he hopes it will achieve

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For a long time, I’ve wanted to change the status quo in how the music industry is geared towards old music. When performers programme concerts, they like to stay safe and so they turn to the ‘devils’ we all know – the great, but mainly dead, composers. And yet there are so many great living composers. The idea of the foundation...

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Ilan Volkov explains the inspiration behind the new I&I Foundation

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Coronavirus has stopped the whole world, and maybe one of the few advantages has been that this has given us a moment to rethink and to try new things. Through our new foundation, it’s exciting to be able to help emerging composers. With all the uncertainty about where things are going, they need our support more than ever. The...