Bremen Music Festival Prize
With the international Bremen Music Festival Prize , the Bremen Music Festival has been honoring outstanding music artists at this festival since 1998 who have also "contributed to the enrichment and further development of international musical life." Together with the Commerzbank Foundation (main prize) and Deutschlandfunk Köln (sponsorship prize ), the Bremen Music Festival honors internationally outstanding performers, composers, conductors or ensembles and supports young talent. The music award is a hand-cast Orpheus bronze sculpture by the Bremen sculptor Bernd Altenstein and is associated with a prize sum of 25,000 euros.
Deutschlandfunk award
In addition, the awards Musikfest Bremen together with the Germany radio the prize Germany radio , with the - to be promoted, "have put through their administration already impressive individual accents and recommended for a major international career." "Highly talented young artist performers, composers or conductors" As artist in residence, the award winners work together with Deutschlandfunk on studio recordings and a CD production and receive an engagement for the music festival that follows.
Award winners
- 1998 John Eliot Gardiner ; Sponsorship award: Tanja Tetzlaff
- 1999 Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica ; Sponsorship award: Aniello Desiderio
- 2000 Klaus Maria Brandauer and the conductor Thomas Hengelbrock ; Sponsorship award: Julia Fischer
- 2001 Jessye Norman ; Sponsorship award: new art saxophone quartet
- 2002 Nikolaus Harnoncourt ; Sponsorship award: Nicola Jürgensen
- 2003 András Schiff ; Sponsorship award: Sergey Khachatryan
- 2004 Roger Norrington ; Sponsorship award: Yu Kosuge
- 2005 Marc Minkowski ; Sponsorship award: Lera Auerbach
- 2006 Anne Sofie von Otter ; Sponsorship award: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- 2007 Kristjan Järvi and his Absolute Ensemble ; Kristian Bezuidenhout Award (pianist)
- 2008 Fazıl Say ; Sponsorship award: Antoine Tamestit (violist)
- 2009 Hélène Grimaud ; Sponsorship award: Cinquecento (vocal ensemble)
- 2010 Jos van Immerseel ; Sponsorship award: Spira mirabilis (orchestra)
- 2011 Masaaki Suzuki ; Sponsorship award: Sophie Pacini
- 2012 Harald Vogel ; Sponsorship award: Mikayel Balyan and Davit Melkonyan
- 2013 Prize: Chiaroscuro Quartet
- 2014 Ottavio Dantone and Accademia Bizantina ; Sponsorship award: Leonard Elschenbroich (cellist)
- 2015 Janine Jansen ; Sponsorship award: Simone Rubio (percussionist)
- 2016 Rolando Villazón ; Sponsorship award: Jean Rondeau (harpsichordist)
- 2017 Jérémie Rhorer ; Sponsorship award: Aaron Pilsan (pianist)
- 2018 Metropole Orkest & chief conductor Jules Buckley ; Sponsorship award: Äneas Humm (baritone)
- 2019 Teodor Currentzis