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Danish Music Prize for Thomas Adès

Mittwoch, Oktober 7, 2015 - 09:43
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Thomas Adès

On 8 October 2015 British composer Thomas Adès will receive the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. The award ceremony will take place during a concert in Copenhagen that concludes a mini festival dedicated to Thomas Adès.

Adès will be the 15th composer to receive the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. Other composers were Igor Stravinsky (1959), Benjamin Britten (1968), György Ligeti (1990), György Kurtág (2003) and Kaija Saariaho (2011).

The Léonie Sonning Music Prize comes with a sum of DKK 600,000.

Source: http://www.sonningmusic.org/the-music-prize/2015-thomas-ade%CC%80s.aspx

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