Heidelberger Frühling Music Award

The Heidelberger Frühling Music Award is an award given at the music festival Heidelberger Frühling in Heidelberg, Germany. The annually award is endowed with €10,000^[1] 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.^[2]

Heidelberger Frühling Music Award
Awarded for	"individuals who have made substantial and lasting contributions within the classical music education sector."
Sponsored by	HeidelbergCement
Location	Heidelberg
Country	Germany
Reward(s)	€10,000
First awarded	2013
Website	www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/en/heidelberger-fruehling/programm/musikpreis/

Recipients

• 2013 Jörg Widmann, clarinetist, composer and conductor
• 2014 Eleonore Büning, music journalist
• 2015 Markus Hinterhäuser, pianist and cultural manager
• 2016 Christian Gerhaher, baritone
• 2017 Klaus Lauer, hotelier and festival director (Römerbad-Musiktage, Badenweiler Musiktage)^[3][1]
• 2018 Gabriela Montero, pianist^[4]
• 2019 John Gilhooly, director of Wigmore Hall^[5][6]
• 2020 Thomas Hampson, baritone^[2][7]
• 2023 Martin Grubinger, percussionist^[8]

References

1. Dick, Alexander (18 October 2016). "Klaus Lauer erhält den Musikpreis des "Heidelberger Frühling"". Badische Zeitung. Freiburg. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
2. "Sänger Thomas Hampson erhält den Musikpreis des Festivals". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (in German). Heidelberg. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
3. "Musikpreis – Magazin". Heidelberger Frühling (in German). 15 September 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
4. "Musikpreis für Pianistin Gabriela Montero". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (in German). Heidelberg. 19 March 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
5. "John Gilhooly Receives Heidelberger Frühling Music Award". The Journal of Music. An Spidéal. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
6. Thraves, Lucy (12 October 2018). "John Gilhooly receives Heidelberger Frühling Music Award". rhinegold.co.uk. London. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
7. ""Heidelberger Frühling"-Musikpreis an Thomas Hampson". Musik Heute (in German). Berlin. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
8. "Heidelberger Frühling Music Award 2023: Award ceremony for Martin Grubinger – Heidelberger Frühling". Heidelberger Frühling. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.

External links

• Official website (in German and English)