Franz Völker Prize
The Franz-Völker-Preis is a music prize that has been awarded every five years by the city of Neu-Isenburg since 1989 in cooperation with the Mainz State Theater to three young tenors. It is named after the tenor Franz Völker , who was born in Neu-Isenburg, and is endowed with € 3,000 (now € 6,000) study grant.
Previous winners were:
- 1989 - Christian Elsner, Ferdinand Seiler , Andreas Wagner
- 1994 - Johannes Kalpers , Jürgen Fersch, Mathias Klink
- 1999 - Koh Ki-Hun, Lars Lettner, Tobias Rapp
- 2004 - Jason (Jae Suk) Kim, Simon Schnorr
- 2009 - Daniel Jenz, Lucian Krasznec, Kejia Xiong
- 2014 - Timothy Fallon
- 2020 - Myung-in-Lee