Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is a foundation established by the industrialist Ernst von Siemens in 1972 and is based in Zug ( Switzerland ). The administration lies with KPMG AG , Lucerne , represented by Christoph Portmann . The further management under the direction of Michael Roßnagl is located in Munich at the headquarters of Siemens AG .
Foundation purpose
The main purpose of the Art Foundation is the annual award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize to a person in contemporary musical life for their life's work, with which they achieved special merits as a composer , performer or musicologist . In 2013 it was 250,000 euros. In addition, prizes are awarded to young composers and musicians . In addition, ensembles, festivals, contemporary music projects and institutions of contemporary music life are financially supported.
Application deadline
Applications for the respective funding year must be submitted by September 15 of the previous year. If a project is to be funded at short notice in the second half of the year, applications can be submitted by March 1st of the funding year.
Funding volume
Currently (2017) the total annual funding is 3 million euros.
Board of Trustees
In 2018, the board of trustees includes the composers Isabel Mundry , Enno Poppe , Wolfgang Rihm and Peter Ruzicka , the musicologist Ulrich Mosch, the violinist Carolin Widmann and the cultural managers Thomas Angyan ( Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna ), Winrich Hopp (Musikfest Berlin), Ilona Schmiel ( Beethovenfest Bonn ) and Andrea Zietzschmann.
Board of Trustees
The chairmanship of the foundation board, which consists of seven members, is - according to the statutes - the president of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , currently Michael Krüger . In addition, Bettina von Siemens, Hubert Achermann, Rudolf W. Hug, Elisabeth Oltramare-Schreiber, Herbert Scheidt, Ferdinand von Siemens and Peter von Siemens are members in 2018 .
Award winners
So far, the prize has been awarded to male composers, musicians and musicologists Benjamin Britten , Olivier Messiaen , Mstislav Rostropovich , Witold Lutosławski , Luciano Berio , Hans Werner Henze , György Ligeti , Claudio Abbado , Maurizio Pollini , Helmut Lachenmann , Wolfgang Rihm , György Kurtág , Daniel Barenboim , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Michael Gielen , Brian Ferneyhough , Reinhold Brinkmann , the Arditti Quartet , Alfred Brendel , Gidon Kremer , Herbert von Karajan , Mauricio Kagel , Peter Schreier , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Yehudi Menuhin and Aribert Reimann . The only female winner of the main prize so far is Anne-Sophie Mutter (2008).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the foundation, contact Accessed on March 8, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.miz.org/details_119.html . Music Information Center, Retrieved March 10, 2011.
- ↑ Homepage of the Foundation ( memo from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Homepage of the Foundation, application Accessed on March 8, 2018.
- ↑ www.evs-musikstiftung.ch .
- ↑ Homepage of the Foundation, Board of Trustees , accessed on March 8, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/de/stiftung/stiftung/organisation/stiftungsrat.html . Homepage of the Foundation, Board of Trustees, accessed on March 8, 2018.