MARC-ANDRÉ - Élégie (live at ICMA Gala Concert)

After receiving his trophy during the ICMA Award Ceremony in Wrocław, Poland on 21 April, Marc-André performed with the NFM Philharmonic alongside their music director Giancarlo Guerrero at the International Classical Music Awards Gala Concert in the sold-out Great Hall of the Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music (NFM). The music of neighboring France then came to the fore in Gabriel Fauré’s Elegy for Cello and Orchestra, though arranged for the largest string instrument, double bass. Marc-André is the first winner of the new ICMA Classeek Award. The recently launched collaboration between ICMA and Classeek allows for the promotion of one outstanding young musician each year, selected from the list of finalists in Classeek’s flagship ambassador program for talented artists. During this Elegy, M.A demonstrated how well the double bass lends itself to solo performance when played as he just can. He illustrated that in the right hands, the unwieldy-looking double bass can sound j