Polar Music Prize

Polar Music Prize

The Polar Music Prize is an international music prize and awarded to individuals, groups or institutions in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music (and it is often called the "Nobel Prize of Music"). The prize was founded in 1989 with an endowment from publisher, lyricist and manager of the Swedish pop music group ABBA, Stig “Stikkan” Anderson, and was named after Anderson's Polar Music recording label.

The Polar is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, with annual award ceremonies held in Stockholm each May, where the prize is presented to each laureate by HM Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The prize purse is SEK1 million ("ca." GB£85,000; US$169,000).

Laureates

:2008 - Pink Floyd and Renée Fleming:2007 - Sonny Rollins and Steve Reich:2006 - Led Zeppelin and Valery Gergiev:2005 - Gilberto Gil and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau:2004 - B. B. King and György Ligeti:2003 - Keith Jarrett:2002 - Sofia Gubaidulina and Miriam Makeba:2001 - Burt Bacharach, Robert Moog and Karlheinz Stockhausen:2000 - Bob Dylan and Isaac Stern:1999 - Stevie Wonder and Iannis Xenakis:1998 - Ray Charles and Ravi Shankar:1997 - Eric Ericson and Bruce Springsteen:1996 - Pierre Boulez and Joni Mitchell:1995 - Sir Elton John and Mstislav Rostropovich:1994 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Quincy Jones:1993 - Dizzy Gillespie and Witold Lutosławski:1992 - Sir Paul McCartney and the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

See also

*Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
*List of prizes, medals, and awards
*Nobel Prize
*Right Livelihood Award
*Schock Prize

External links

* [http://www.polarmusicprize.se/ Polar Music Prize] - Official site


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