The Heidelberger Frühling Music Award is an award given at the music festival
Heidelberger Frühling
The International Music Festival Heidelberger Frühling is an annual classical music festival held in Heidelberg in March and April since 1997, with over 100 events and 47,000 visitors (2018). In addition to the festival's productions and concert ...
in
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
, Germany. The annually award is endowed with €10,000
and is awarded to creatives and journalists who have made a substantial and sustained contribution to bringing classical music to wider audiences, respectively to individuals who have made substantial and lasting contributions within the classical music education sector. The prize is donated by
HeidelbergCement
HeidelbergCement is a German multinational building materials company headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. It is a DAX corporation and is one of the largest building materials companies in the world. On 1 July 2016, HeidelbergCement AG complet ...
.
Recipients
* 2013
Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2018, Widmann was the third most performed contemporary composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and composition professor at the University of Music Freibu ...
, clarinetist, composer and conductor
* 2014
Eleonore Büning
Elisabeth Eleonore Büning (née Bauer; born 2 January 1952) is a German music journalist and writer, known for her opera reviews in the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''.
Early life and education
Elisabeth Eleonore Bauer was born in Frankfurt a ...
, music journalist
* 2015
Markus Hinterhäuser
Markus Hinterhäuser (born 30 March 1958 (1959 according to other sources) in La Spezia, Italy) is an Austrian pianist and the current artistic director of the Salzburg Festival. He studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vie ...
, pianist and cultural manager
* 2016
Christian Gerhaher
Christian Gerhaher (born 24 July 1969, in Straubing) is a German baritone and bass singer in opera and concert, particularly known as a Lieder singer.
Career
Christian Gerhaher studied with Paul Kuën and Raimund Grumbach at the Hochschule ...
, baritone
* 2017 Klaus Lauer, hotelier and festival director (Römerbad-Musiktage,
Badenweiler
Badenweiler (High Alemannic: ''Badewiler'') is a health resort and spa in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, historically in the Markgräflerland. It is 28 kilometers by road and rail from Basel, 10 kilometer ...
Musiktage)
* 2018
Gabriela Montero
Gabriela Montero (born May 10, 1970) is a Venezuelan pianist, known in particular for her real-time improvisation of complex musical pieces on themes suggested by her audience and other sources, as well as for performances of standard classical r ...
, pianist
* 2019
John Gilhooly
John Gilhooly, , OSI (born 15 August 1973, Castleconnell, County Limerick, Ireland) is a British and Irish arts administrator. He is currently artistic and executive director of Wigmore Hall.
Education
Gilhooly was educated at Lisnagry National ...
, director of
Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall is a concert hall located at 36 Wigmore Street, London. Originally called Bechstein Hall, it specialises in performances of chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals. It is widely regarded as one of the world's leadin ...
* 2020
Thomas Hampson
Thomas Walter Hampson (born June 28, 1955) is an American lyric baritone, a classical singer who has appeared world-wide in major opera houses and concert halls and made over 170 musical recordings.
Hampson's operatic repertoire spans a range ...
, baritone
* 2023
Martin Grubinger
Martin Grubinger (born 29 May 1983 in Salzburg) is an Austrian drummer and multi-percussionist.
Early life
Grubinger received his first instruction from his father, Martin Grubinger, Senior, a percussionist and percussion instructor at the Mozart ...
, percussionist
References
External links
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{{Classical music awards
German music awards
Classical music awards
Awards established in 2013
2013 establishments in Germany