The Belmont Prize is a music award named after the place of destiny in Shakespeare's ''
The Merchant of Venice
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The Munich-based Forberg Schneider Foundation, founded in 1997, promotes outstanding achievements in the field of contemporary music.
The biennially-awarded prize is endowed with €20,000 and is one of Europe’s highest endowed awards for artistic creation.
Recipients
* 1999
Jörg Widmann
* 2001
Florent Boffard
Florent Boffard (born in 1964) is a French classical pianist and pedagogue.
Biography
Boffard received his first musical training at the Conservatoire National de Région de Lyon. In 1976, he was a pupil of Yvonne Loriod's piano class at the Con ...
* 2004
Carolin Widmann
Carolin Widmann (born 1976) is a German classical violinist. The sister of composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann, she focuses mainly on contemporary music. She plays a violin made in 1782 by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.
Career
Born in Munich ...
* 2005
Quatuor Ébène
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Classical String quartet
In classical music, one of the most common combinations ...
* 2007
Bruno Mantovani
Bruno Mantovani (born 8 October 1974) is a French composer. He has been awarded first prizes from the Conservatoire de Paris which he joined in 1993. His work has been commissioned by the French government as well as other organizations. In Septe ...
* 2009
* 2012
Alex Ross
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* 2013
Sabrina Hölzer
* 2015
Milica Djordjevic
Milica Djordjevic (born 1984 in Belgrade, Serbia), is a composer of contemporary classical music and one of the most important representatives of the younger generation of composers in international musical life. (Berliner Festspiele)
She lives ...
* 2018
Eamonn Quinn
* 2020
Florian Weber
Florian Weber (born 11 November 1977) is a German pianist and composer of modern jazz.
Early life and education
Weber was born on 11 November 1977 in Detmold. His family was musical: "his father was a music professor and his mother an opera singe ...
* 2022
Sarah Aristidou
References
External links
* {{official website, 1=http://www.stiftung.forberg-schneider.de/?id=4&L=1
German music awards
Awards established in 1997
1997 establishments in Germany