The International Arnold-Schönberg-Prize was established in 2001, and named after the Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg, thanks to the initiative of Kent Nagano

Kent Nagano

__FORCETOC__Kent George Nagano is an American conductor and opera administrator. He is currently the music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Bavarian State Opera.-Biography:...

, the former principal conductor and musical director of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin, together with Deutschlandradio. The prize is awarded by the Arnold Schönberg Center

Arnold Schönberg Center

The Arnold Schönberg Center, established in 1998 in Vienna, is a unique repository of Arnold Schönberg's archival legacy and a cultural center that is open to the public.-Activities:...

 (Vienna, Austria) to international composers.

Prize Winners

• 2001 George Benjamin
  George Benjamin (composer)
  George William John Benjamin, CBE is a British composer of classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher....
  
  
• 2004 Jörg Widmann
  Jörg Widmann
  Jörg Widmann is a German composer and clarinetist. He lives and works in Munich and Freiburg.- Education and career :...
  
  
• 2005 Unsuk Chin
  Unsuk Chin
  Unsuk Chin , is a South Korean composer of classical music, based in Berlin, Germany. She was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in 2004 and the Arnold Schönberg Prize in 2005.- Biography :...
  
  
• 2006 Aribert Reimann
  Aribert Reimann
  Aribert Reimann is a German opera composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of King Lear was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who sang the title role....
  
  
• 2008 Helmut Oehring
  Helmut Oehring
  Helmut Oehring is a German composer. He studied with Friedrich Goldmann and Georg Katzer at the Akademie der Künste. He was guest of the Villa Massimo....