Brahms Prize
The Brahms Prize is an award given by the Brahms Society Schleswig-Holstein since 1988, with which artists are honored who have made a contribution to the care of the artistic legacy of Johannes Brahms . The Brahms Prize has been endowed with 10,000 euros since 2002. Up to 1999 the prize money was 10,000 DM and in 2000/2001 20,000 DM each.
Award winners
- 1988: Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic
- 1990: Yehudi Menuhin , violinist and conductor
- 1993: Lisa Smirnova , pianist
- 1994: Philharmonic of the Nations
- 1995: Hanno Müller-Brachmann , bass-baritone
- 1996: Professors Renate and Kurt Hofmann, Brahms Institute Lübeck
- 1997: Detlef Kraus , pianist
- 1998: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , baritone
- 1999: Stephan Genz , baritone
- 2000: Christian Tetzlaff , violinist
- 2001: Sabine Meyer , clarinetist
- 2002: Thomanerchor Leipzig
- 2003: Manfred Sihle-Wissel , sculptor
- 2004: Lars Vogt , pianist
- 2005: Dresden Kreuzchor
- 2006: Lübeck University of Music with an affiliated Brahms Institute
- 2007: Thomas Quasthoff , baritone
- 2008: Simone Young and the Hamburg Philharmonic
- 2009: Gerhard Oppitz , pianist
- 2011: Anne-Sophie Mutter , violinist
- 2012: Fauré Quartet , piano quartet
- 2013: Matthias Janz , church music director, and the Flensburg Bach Choir
- 2014: Benjamin Moser , pianist, and Johannes Moser , cellist
- 2017: Herbert Blomstedt , Swedish conductor
- 2018: Christiane Karg , German soprano
- 2019: Pieter Wispelwey , cellist, and Paolo Giacometti, pianist