BEIJING, Feb. 14,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kuke Music Holding Limited
("Kuke" or the "Company") (NYSE: KUKE), a leading classical music
service platform in China with 3
million audio and video music tracks, announced that the Company's
representing recording catalogue has won the coveted 2023
International Classical Music Awards ("ICMA") in two categories –
of Solo Instrument and Video Opera. Kuke's long-term global
strategic partner, Naxos, won Label of the Year. In addition, famed
pianist Alessandro Marangoni, who
has no fewer than 20 recordings on the Naxos label, received this
year's Special Achievement Award for his monumental cycle of
Gioachino Rossini's complete
14-volume Péchés de vieillesse, recorded on 13 albums. These
award-winning recordings, via Kuke
Music, are currently available to over 800 universities,
libraries, institutions and schools in China.
ICMA represents the benchmark for high quality recordings and
the recognition of the value of the recording catalogue. Its jury
consists of music professionals from the industry's most
influential specialist publications and broadcasters, such as
Andante, Crescendo, Pizzicato, Scherzo, Deutsche Welle (DW), MDR
Klassik, among others. Winners for 2023 were chosen from a total of
391 nominations.
Separately, one of Kuke Music's
distribution labels' recordings, won a 2023 Grammy Awards for Best
Choral Performance. 7 other recordings from 4 labels in Kuke's
extensive catalog have been nominated for 2023's BBC Music Magazine
Awards in multiple categories. As award season for classical music
gradually unveils, Kuke Music's
distributing catalogue shows another promising year.
Mr. He Yu, Chief Executive Officer of Kuke Music Holding
Limited, commented, "We congratulate our partners, labels and their
artists on what is turning out to be a truly record awards season.
We are proud of our team's achievements, as these prestigious
awards serve as a further validation of the high quality catalog we
have built. As success breeds more success, we will look to
leverage the power and instant recognition of these honors for the
artists we license as a springboard to further enhance our
leadership position and the excellence of our high quality
classical music catalog, which ultimately builds value for our
company and all shareholders."
About Kuke Music Holding Limited (NYSE: KUKE)
Kuke is a leading classical music service platform in
China encompassing the entire
value chain from content provision to music learning services, with
approximately 3 million audio and video music tracks. By
collaborating with its strategic global business partner Naxos, the
largest independent classical music content provider in the world,
the foundation of Kuke's extensive classical music content library
is its unparalleled access to more than 900 top-tier labels and
record companies. Leveraging its market leadership in international
copyrighted classical music content, Kuke provides highly scalable
classical music licensing services to various online music
platforms, and classical music subscription services to over 800
universities, libraries and other institutions across China. In
addition, it has hosted Beijing Music Festival ("BMF"), the most
renowned music festival in China, for 24 consecutive years. Through
KUKEY, the Company's proprietary smart music learning solutions,
Kuke aims to democratize music learning via technological
innovation, bring fascinating music content and professional music
techniques to more students, and continuously improve the
efficiency and penetration of music learning in China. For more
information about Kuke, please visit https://ir.kuke.com/
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the date of this press release, and Kuke undertakes no obligation
to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under
applicable law.
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