Kranichsteiner Music Prize

The Kranichsteiner Music Prize is an internationally renowned music prize . It was donated in 1952 by the city of Darmstadt (Kranichsteiner Musikinstitut, today: Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt ) on the occasion of the International Summer Courses for New Music with the support of the State of Hesse . The name goes back to the Darmstadt district of Kranichstein . It was initially considered the only prize for interpretations of contemporary music in Germany. In 1976 the awarding of the prizes was changed to a biennial cycle.

Until 1969, the prize was awarded to new music interpreters of several different instruments (violin, flute, clarinet, violoncello, percussion) and chamber music , with the piano being advertised every year. Since 1972 the prize has been divided into a diverse interpretation prize and a newly added composition prize and no longer takes place as a music competition , but is awarded as a bonus. Previously, with a few exceptions, so-called “public final auditions” were held at the end of the competitions, with premieres and first performances on a regular basis . In 1952 the compulsory pieces included modern compositions from the first half of the 20th century and the like. a. Béla Bartók , Claude Debussy , Paul Hindemith , Darius Milhaud and Arnold Schönberg . In 1959 the canon was supplemented with more recent works by Edgar Varèse , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez .

He is currently at 6,000 euros, i.e. H. 3,000 euros for performers (ensemble or soloist) and 3,000 euros for composers. Scholarships have also been awarded since 1982 . The independent jury is made up of lecturers from the respective holiday courses. In 2016 these were Joanna Bailie , Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen and Eva Zöllner .

Prize Winner (Composition)

year	Surname	country
1972	Gillian Bibby	New Zealand
	Helmut Cromm	Germany
	Martin Gellhorn	United Kingdom
1974	Moya Henderson	Australia
	Johannes Göbel	Germany
	Marc Monnet	France
	Detlev Müller-Siemens	Germany
	Alvin Singleton	United States
1976	Ulrich Stranz	Germany
1978	Wolfgang Rihm	Germany
1980	Clarence Barlow	India
	Hans-Karsten Raecke	Germany
1982	James Dillon	United Kingdom
	Robert HP place	Germany
1984	Chris Dench	United Kingdom
	Calin Ioachimescu	Romania
	Bernardo Kuczer	Argentina
1986	Richard Barrett	United Kingdom
	Mario Garuti	Italy
	Bunita Marcus	United States
	Alessandro Melchiorre	Italy
	Kaija Saariaho	Finland
1988	Klaus K. Huebler	Germany
1990	Joël-François Durand	France
	Luca Francesconi	Italy
	Roger Redgate	United Kingdom
	Rodney Sharman	Canada

year	Surname	country
1992	Ignacio Baca-Lobera	Mexico
	James Clarke	United Kingdom
	Frank Cox	United States
	Chaya Czernowin	Israel
	Eric Tanguy	France
1994	no prizewinner	-
1996	Marc André	France
	Gerald Eckert	Germany
	Motoharu Kawashima	Japan
	Isabel Mundry	Germany
1998	Mark Osborn	United States
2000	Valerio Sannicandro	Italy
	Sebastian Claren	Germany
	Jennifer Walshe	Ireland
2002	Nam-Kuk Kim	South Korea
	Martin Schüttler	Germany
	Seth Wrightington	United States
2004	Hans Thomalla	Germany
2006	Tatiana Kozlova	Estonia
	Robin Hoffmann	Germany
2008	Jimmy López	Peru
	Marco Momi	Italy
	Simon Steen-Andersen	Denmark
2010	Stefan Prins	Belgium
2012	Johannes Kreidler	Germany
2014	Ashley Fure	United States
2016	Celeste Oram	New Zealand
2018	Oliver Thurley	United Kingdom
	Martin Hirsti-Kvam	Norway
	Sara Glojnarić	Croatia

literature

• Gianmario Borio , Hermann Danuser (eds.): At the zenith of modernity: The international summer courses for new music Darmstadt 1946–1966. Volume 2, Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997, ISBN 3-7930-9138-4 , pp. 134-142.

Web links

• Kranichsteiner Music Prize on the homepage of the International Music Institute Darmstadt
• Jürgen Krebber: Kranichsteiner Music Prize. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronology of the Kranichstein Music Prize . internationales-musikinstitut.de. Retrieved September 18, 2019.