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Mariss Jansons Wins Siemens Prize

January 14, 2013
MusicalAmerica.com

 Conductor Mariss Jansons celebrates his 70th birthday today with the announcement of his receipt of the 2013 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, “in recognition of a life dedicated to music.” The prize carries a purse of 250,000 euros. He will receive it  from the president of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts on June 4 in the Prinzregententheater, Munich.  Longtime friend and colleague Thomas Hampson will speak in his honor.

 
The prize, whose first recipient was Benjamin Britten, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year; past recipients include the likes of Bernstein, Abbado, Anne Sophie Mutter and Herbert von Karajan, who has been credited with “discovering” Jansons’ talent in 1968, thereby enabling him to leave the Soviet Union to study in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky. He also assisted Von Karajan in Salzburg.
 
Today, Jansons is recognized as one of the finest of his generation. He is music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as principal conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Previously he was with the Pittsburgh Symphony; he also led the Oslo Philharmonic from 1979 for 21 years, turning it from “an insignificant ensemble,” in the Foundation’s words, into “one of the world’s leading orchestras.”
 
A well-deserved birthday present for the maestro.

 

 

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