Hans Koller Prize

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The Hans-Koller-Preis was an Austrian jazz prize that was founded in 1996 and awarded from 1997 to 2009. The award ceremony took place annually in December.

The prize was named after the Austrian jazz saxophonist Hans Koller , who died in 2003, and was organized and presented by the Austrian Music Office (AMO) association, which was founded by Mathias Rüegg in 1996. The prize was sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture , the City of Vienna , Bank Austria and Austro Mechana (society for the exercise of mechanical and musical copyrights).

The Hans Koller Prize was awarded in the five categories “Musician of the Year”, “Newcomer of the Year”, “Sideman of the Year”, “Album of the Year” and “European Jazz Prize”. Thanks to the European Jazz Prize, the Hans Koller Prize was also radiant abroad. It was last endowed with € 17,500. Until 2007 the European Jazz Prize was endowed with € 14,500, "Musician of the Year" with € 7,300, "Newcomer of the Year" with € 5,500, Sideman and Album with € 3,600. Since 1996, an "Austrian State Prize" has been awarded every four years as a category of the Hans Koller Prize as a state prize for improvised music to an Austrian jazz musician for his life's work, endowed with € 11,000 and sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture has been. The first prize winner was Hans Koller himself.

After 2009, Bank Austria withdrew as a sponsor . After the City of Vienna and the Republic of Austria did not want to fill the budget gap created by the bank's withdrawal, Mathias Rüegg, the long-time head of the Austrian Music Office , stopped the award-organizing committee's activities in April 2010. For a while there was talk of an effort to realign the Hans Koller Prize, but that did not happen. The promotion of outstanding young musicians was transferred to the " Outstanding Artist Awards ", which the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture awards in different categories; there is no longer a European price category.

Award winners

The list of all award winners:

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Multiple award winners

Martin Reiter was the only artist to be awarded four times as part of the Hans Koller Prize (2002, 2005, 2008), while Christoph Pepe Auer (2005, 2007) and Viola Falb (2004, 2006, 2008) were each awarded three times. Gábor Bolla (2004, 2006), Georg Breinschmid (2002, 2003), Herwig Gradischnig (1998, 2004), Oliver Kent (2002, 2004), Martin Koller (1999), Wolfgang Muthspiel (1997, 2003), received two awards each . Matthias Pichler (2004, 2006), Wolfgang Puschnig (1998, 2007), Wolfgang Reisinger (2009), Lorenz Raab (2003, 2004) and Clemens Salesny (2001, 2009).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Music Office ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 28, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hanskollerpreis.at
  2. ↑ Hanskollerpreis.at , accessed on March 28, 2010
  3. ↑ Andreas Felber: "We want a house", in FALTER 48/11 ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 25, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.falter.at
  4. ^ Ö1 Inforadio Sun, March 28, 2010: Hans Koller Prize to Enrico Rava ( Memento from April 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Andreas Felber: "We want a house", in FALTER 48/11 ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 25, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.falter.at