Anna and Rolando nominated for the ECHO 2009

Anna and Rolando are both nominated for the ECHO 2009. Anna 9 times and Rolando 7 times =)

"[...]Mit zehn Nennungen bringt es Sir Simon Rattle mit den Berliner Philharmonikern auf die meisten Nominierungen; es folgen Anna Netrebko mit neun, Rolando Villazón mit sieben, Esa-Pekka Salonen mit sechs sowie Claudia Barainsky und David Pitmman-Jennings, Anne-Sophie Mutter und Valery Gergiev sowie Concerto Köln und Philippe Jaroussky mit jeweils fünf Nominierungen.[...]"

The award takes place at the dresdner semperoper on 18th October 2009. The german tv channel "ZDF" will broadcast the award beginning 10:00 p.m. The winners will already be announced by the BVMI and the Phono-Akademie on 29th July. The jury consists of people out of policy, culture and medias, the ZDF-Music editorial department and the "Bundesverbands" working team Classic.

Michael Brüggemann
Carsten Dürer
Manfred Görgen
Stephanie Haase
Lars Ingwersen
Michael Kaufmann
Christian Kellersmann
Helmut König
Martin Maria Krüger
Markus Schächter
Martin Schneider
Virginia Tutila

Hmm actually I don't know anybody of this people...do you ???

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Thanks to Schlumpf for the info !