Erwin Ortner Prize

The Erwin Ortner Prize for the Promotion of Choral Music (“Prize of the Erwin Ortner Fund for the Promotion of Choral Music”) has been awarded annually since 1988 to outstanding young choir directors and composers. The prize is named after Erwin Ortner (* 1947) and is currently endowed with 3,000 euros. The fund is financed exclusively from private donations.

Award winners

• 1988 Alois Glaßner
• 1989 ORFEO - A series of vocal events (Graz)
• 1990 Ingrun Fußenegger
• 1991 Wolfgang Mayrhofer
• 1992 Ottokar Prochazka
• 1993 Oskar Egle
• 1994 Wolfgang Sauseng
• 1995 Siegfried Portugaller
• 1996 Johannes Hiemetsberger
• 1997 Norbert Matsch
• 1998 Claudia Kettenbach
• 1999 Martin Lindenthal
• 2000 Markus Obereder
• 2001 Herwig Reiter
• 2002 Jordi Casals
• 2003 Michael Grohotolsky
• 2004 Norbert Brandauer
• 2005 Martin Fuchsberger
• 2006 Michal Kucharko
• 2007 NANO children's choir school, Sibyl Urbancic
• 2008 Styria-Cantat, Gertrud Zwicker
• 2009 Choral Scene Lower Austria
• 2010 Moritz Guttmann
• 2011 Andreas Peterl
• 2012 Oliver Stech
• 2013 Bomi Kim
• 2014 Elena Mitrevska
• 2015 Stefan Foidl
• 2016 Luiz de Godoy
• 2017 Roger Díaz-Cajamarca

Web links

• Erwin Ortner Fund to promote choral music

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Styria Cantat
2. ↑ Erwin Ortner Prize for Choral Music goes to Moritz Guttmann Der Standard, December 13, 2010
3. ↑ Prize winner 2015: Stefan Foidl . Retrieved February 17, 2016.