What others are saying
Photo: Eric van Nieuwland"Kicking up a storm in the classical music industry (...), Classical:NEXT is the brand new international professionals' forum that everyone is talking about."
International Arts Manager magazine
"Classical:NEXT 2012 offered a fantastic forum for exchanging ideas and connecting with colleagues worldwide. I'm looking forward to another opportunity to engage with the industry in 2013."
Christopher Gruits, Carnegie Hall, USA
"Classical:NEXT turned out to be a perfect place for networking with people in the classical music business. Highly recommended!"
Mike Breneis, CEO col legno
"A very specific and targeted conference"
Rudolph Tang, Beijing Symphony World / Alliance of Asia-Pacific Region Orchestras
"Classical:NEXT provided an excellent and invaluable platform to connect with industry colleagues and partners from around the globe. A relaxed yet professional setting, well done to the team."
Elizabeth Woollacott, Label Manager, Atoll Records
"Immediately after my presentation, several representatives approached me and throughout the day some even suggested concrete deals for international appearances of our contemporary music ensemble. It is amazing how much business one man alone can do thanks to this video showcase format."
John Harris, Chief Executive and Artistic Co-Director of scottish Red Note Ensemble, Scotland
"Classical: NEXT has been well overdue and provided a refreshing, positive look at the current classical sector, its audience and ways toward a better future. Fabulous conversations and discoveries were abundant!."
Rae Howell, Composer, Performer, Director: Sunwrae Ensemble
"Everybody's going to Classical:NEXT"
Jessica Duchen, music journalist and blogger, UK
"Classical:NEXT is a new forum that answers to the needs and wishes of the classical music sector. It combines national organizations and business partners in a new way. Classical:NEXT has all that it takes to grow into the most important professional event of classical music"
Jutta Jaakkola, Executive Director, Finnish Music Information Centre Fimic.
"Classical music has branched out into so many subscenes that we sometimes lose sight of the common roots that unite them all. Classical:NEXT is about reconnecting to these roots and celebrating all music that stands apart because it aspires to be art."
Moritz Eggert, Composer, Germany
"The heart of the classical music industry will pound in this gathering!"
Andante, turkish magazine for classical music
"Music is the most perfect language - a whole universe can be experienced through its sounds. The challenging task of the composer is to bring the listener on a seemless journey. Excellent music of all types achieves this. In a long and varied global history filled with multifarious events which effect the lives of artists in so many different ways, the single, unifying treasure we all share is music. Classical:NEXT offers an important opportunity to gather together the members of the family of classical music."
Dr. Irina Hasnas - composer and music journalist, Romania
"An event dedicated to the needs of the classical music industry with all its different sectors and groups is long-overdue. We are very pleased to see the establishment of Classical:NEXT."
Klaus Heymann, Chairman, Naxos Group of Companies, Hong Kong
"There are many groups that have interesting approaches on how to free classical music from the museum and get it on the streets. It is really exciting that now there is a forum for that!"
David Orlowsky, clarinetist and jury member, Germany
"...the musical experience while listening to classical music has to be an universal one. Somehow we lost that. If we can regain that momentum anew, modern classical music will no more be just marginal, it will to the contrary help us all to define our time and culture for generations to come, as it happened so gloriously during the past centuries. We are about to lose that momentum. I hope Classical:NEXT will help us to redefine our common mission, advance new music and create a musical mirror of who we are today."
Daniel Schnyder, Composer, New York