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16.1.2025

Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2025 Awarded to Sir Simon Rattle

The 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize will be awarded to British-German conductor Sir Simon Rattle. The Board of Trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation honours one of the most significant and influential conductors of our time.

16.1.2025

2025 Composer Prizes to Ashkan Behzadi, Bastien David and Kristine Tjøgersen

The 2025 Composer Prizes, each worth 35,000 euros, have been awarded to Ashkan Behzadi (Iranian-Canadian), Bastien David (France), and Kristine Tjøgersen (Norway). In addition to the Prize money, music productions are also part of the Prizes.

16.1.2025

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Awards a Total of 4 Million Euros for the First Time

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation will award a total of four million euros in project funding for the first time in 2025. Of this amount, the largest share of 3.3 million euros will support contemporary music projects worldwide. Compared to the previous year, the amount of funding has increased by around 350,000 euros.

2.1.2025

Application Portal open – Application Deadline on March 1, 2025

The online application for contemporary music projects worldwide is open. The application deadline is March 1, 2025 at 11:59 pm (CET).
Les Siècles

6.12.2024

räsonanz – Donor Concert with works by Pierre Boulez on January 9, 2025 at Prinzregententheater Munich

The 2025 räsonanz – Donor Concert in collaboration with the Bayerischer Rundfunk's musica viva is dedicated to the composer Pierre Boulez. To mark the 100th anniversary of Boulez's birth, two of his key works will be performed. Eclat-Multiples and Pli selon pli will be played by Les Siècles under the baton of Franck Ollu at the Prinzregententheater in Munich at 8 p.m. on 9 January 2025. Soprano Sarah Aristidou will perform the vocal part.

3.11.2024

Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation’s support educational projects

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is pleased to announce that it will be offering special funding for projects aimed at children and young people for the 2025/26 concert season. The promotion of educational projects is intended to have a broad impact and reach children and young people without any previous musical background.

3.11.2024

Young Composers’ Forum

On December 12, 2024 at 7 pm, Minzuo Lu will present her new work Ihr, Monolog as part of the Young Composer’s Forum. This year, the Chinese composer Minzuo Lu (1991) was selected for the Young Composer’s Forum by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Minzuo Lu has been commissioned to compose a piece and will curate the concert in which her work will be performed for the first time.

30.10.2024

Ensemble Prize ’25 to Collective lovemusic and ensemble Tacet(i)

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is pleased to award the two Ensemble Prizes ’25 to Collective lovemusic from France and the ensemble Tacet(i) from Thailand. The Prize, which is endowed each with 75,000 euros, will be presented to outstanding young ensembles in 2025, marking the fifth year the Prize has been awarded.

1.10.2024

On 24 Oktober, the next part of the workshop series “Community in Practice” will take place.”

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is committed to the topic of "sustainability in cultural work" and would like to deal with this topic as responsibly as possible. For this reason, we have initiated a series of workshops on sustainability perspectives in contemporary music together with other funding organisations. The next workshop on 24 October 2024 from 16:00-17:30 will focus on Sustainable event and festival organisation.

29.7.2024

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation mourns the loss of Wolfgang Rihm

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation mourns the loss of Wolfgang Rihm. In Wolfgang Rihm, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation has lost a long-standing and important member of its Board of Trustees. An outstanding personality in contemporary music, he had a lasting influence on the foundation's fortunes and face for a quarter of a century.