Germany: MIZ

The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) has awarded the Giga-Hertz-Prize for Electronic Music together with the Experimentalstudio of the SWR (Southwest Broadcasting Company).

German composer York Höller has won the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for Sphären, a major orchestral score composed between 2001 and 2006.

In 2007, the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics and the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of SWR Radio inaugurated the annual Giga-Hertz-Award for electronic music. This new international music award with its future-oriented concept exists thanks to the initiative and commitment of ZKM director Peter Weibel.

This year the Swiss composer Klaus Huber will receive the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, which is endowed with 200,000 €. Born on November 30, 1924 in Bern, Huber is regarded as one of the outstanding figures within the Contemporary Music scene.

Ten years on from its foundation, the German Music Information (MIZ) can look back on a record of success. Launched in 1998 under the auspices of the German Music Council, the MIZ has since established itself as an invaluable information facility for all aspects of the German music world.
 

Germany is still a country of music, as it always was: With more than 80 professional music theatres and 135 publicly financed symphony and chamber orchestras, as well as a network of well over 1,000 music schools, music academies and other training and research institutions, the musical life of the Federal Republic of Germany is still characterised by an unusually rich and varied range of musi