Giga Hertz Prize

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The Giga Hertz Prize for Electronic Music is an international music prize that has been awarded annually since 2007 by the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe together with the Freiburg Experimental Studio of the SWR . It is dedicated to the physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), who taught at the Karlsruhe Technical University at the end of the 19th century and who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves .

The Giga Hertz Prize is awarded to composers who work in the field of electronic and acousmatic music. An international jury of experts awards one main prize and four production prizes each year.

The main prize is awarded for life's works by established composers. It is not advertised publicly, but determined by suggestions from the jury members. The production prices serve as competitive prices for the initiation and promotion of new projects and are therefore aimed particularly at young composers. The main prize is 10,000 euros, the production prizes are endowed with 5,000 euros each.

Award winners

  • 2007
    • Grand Prize: Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012, England)
    • Production awards: Mark Andre (* 1964, France), Daniel Mayer (* 1967, Austria), Flo Menezes (* 1962, Brazil), Vassos Nicolaou (* 1971, Cyprus)
  • 2008
    • Grand Prize: Trevor Wishart (* 1946, Great Britain)
    • Production awards: Natasha Barrett (* 1972, Great Britain), Dai Fujikura (* 1977, Japan), João Pedro Oliveira (* 1959, Portugal) and Åke Parmerud (* 1953, Sweden).
  • 2009
    • Main prize: Jean-Claude Risset (1938–2016, France)
    • Production awards : Kee Yong Chong (* 1971, Malaysia), Francisco Colasanto (* 1971, Argentina), Panayiotis Kokoras (* 1974, Greece), Valerio Murat (* 1976, Italy)
  • 2010
    • Main prize: Gottfried Michael Koenig (* 1926, Germany)
    • Production awards: Dániel Péter Biró (* 1969, Hungary), José Miguel Fernández (* 1973, Chile), Orestis Karamanlis (* 1978, Greece), Robert Normandeau (* 1955, Canada)
    • Special award for technical innovation: Jaime E. Oliver La Rosa (* 1979, Peru)
  • 2011
    • Main prize: Pierre Boulez (1925–2016, France)
    • Production award: Horacio Vaggione (* 1943, Argentina)
    • Sponsorship awards: Aaron Einstond (* 1978, USA), Eric Lyon (Ireland), Benedikt Schiefer (* 1978, Germany), Madjid Tahriri (* 1981, Iran), Anthony Tan (Canada), Andrea Vigani (Italy)
  • 2012
  • 2013
    • Main prizes: John Chowning, Francis Dhomont
    • Production awards: Roque Rivas, Alexander Schubert, Ying Wang
    • Sponsorship awards: Daniel Blinkhorn, Leo Hofmann
    • Giga Hertz Prize for Sound Art, main prize: Pierre Henry
    • Giga Hertz Prize for Sound Art, sponsorship prizes: Anthony Elliott, Evelina Rajca
  • 2014
    • Grand Prize: Brian Eno
    • Production awards: Giuliano Obici, Lula Romero, Vinyl-Terror & -Horror (Camilla Sörensen and Greta Christensen)
  • 2015
    • no award ceremony
  • 2016
    • Grand Prize: Curtis Roads
    • Production Awards: Elvira Garifzyanova, Huihui Cheng
    • Sponsorship award (“Honorary Mention”): Daniel Zea Gómez
  • 2017
  • 2018
    • Grand Prize: The Hub
    • Production prices: Óscar Escudero; Graycode, jiiiiin (Taebok Cho, Jinhee Jung)
    • Special Prize: Martino Sarolli; Honorable Mention: David Bird
  • 2019

Remarks

  1. ↑ Giga Hertz Prize for Electronic Music in: German Music Information Center (MIZ)
  2. ↑ The award of the main prize to Pierre Boulez aroused considerable criticism, because Boulez not only did not create any noteworthy electronic oeuvre, but also often and polemically differentiated himself from composers of electronic music.

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