Mauricio Kagel Music Prize Explained

The Mauricio Kagel Music Prize provided by the German arts foundation Kunststiftung NRW was established in 2011. The prize money is €50,000.^[1] Of the prize money, €30,000 goes to the prizewinner and €20,000 has to be used for an art project in North Rhine-Westphalia.^[2] The biennially prize recognizes interdisciplinary work in the spirit of German-Argentinean composer Mauricio Kagel and artistic experiments where music, image and performance meet.

Recipients

• 2011 Georges Aperghis
• 2013 Michel van der Aa^[3]
• 2015 Rebecca Saunders
• 2017 Simon Steen-Andersen^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mauricio Kagel Musikpreis . 2017 . Online-Ausgabe des Handbuchs der Kulturpreise . de . 25 November 2017.
2. Web site: 2017 . Mauricio Kagel Music Prize . kunststiftung-nrw.de . Düsseldorf . 25 November 2017.
3. News: Obiera . Pedro . 30 October 2017 . Oper van der Aas enttäuscht bei "NOW!" in Essen . Westfälische Rundschau . Essen . de . 25 November 2017.
4. Simon Steen-Andersen erhielt den Mauricio Kagel Musikpreis 2017 . Essen . Kunststiftung NRW . 2017 . de . 25 November 2017 . 15 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171115075951/http://www.kunststiftung-nrw.de/de/home/im_fokus_mauricio_kagel_preis_2017_geht_an_ssa/ . dead .
5. News: Pieper . Stefan . 9 November 2017 . Das Unsichtbare spricht zu uns: NOW-Festival in Essen bot Grenzerfahrungen . . Regensburg . de . 25 November 2017.