Prix Italia
Encyclopedia
The Prix Italia is an international Italian
television, radio-broadcasting and Website award
. It was established in 1948 by RAI
- Radiotelevisione Italiana (in 1948 RAI had the denomination RAI - Radio Audizioni Italiane) in Capri
. 87 public and private radio and television organizations representing 46 countries from the five continents form and outline the community of the Prix Italia which is in continuous evolution. Unique in the world, among International festivals and prizes, it is the organizational and decision-making body of the Prix. The delegates decide and resolve the editorial outline and elect the President.
RAI is in charge and responsible of the organization of the manifestation, and the General Secretariat has its headquarters in Rome. Prix Italia is held in an Italian city of art and culture annually every September for a week, in collaboration with local authorities. The event is an authentic and unique moment of congregation and professional comparison on the quality of the programmes. It is the right venue where one can collaborate and define agreements and exchange points of view.
The public participates in the concerts, films, shows, previews, round tables, “all night out”, master classes, radio and web events. Thanks to the “on demand” position everyone can listen and watch all the best worldwide programmes in competition.
Italy
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television, radio-broadcasting and Website award
Award
An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...
. It was established in 1948 by RAI
RAI
RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...
- Radiotelevisione Italiana (in 1948 RAI had the denomination RAI - Radio Audizioni Italiane) in Capri
Capri
Capri is an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples, in the Campania region of Southern Italy...
. 87 public and private radio and television organizations representing 46 countries from the five continents form and outline the community of the Prix Italia which is in continuous evolution. Unique in the world, among International festivals and prizes, it is the organizational and decision-making body of the Prix. The delegates decide and resolve the editorial outline and elect the President.
RAI is in charge and responsible of the organization of the manifestation, and the General Secretariat has its headquarters in Rome. Prix Italia is held in an Italian city of art and culture annually every September for a week, in collaboration with local authorities. The event is an authentic and unique moment of congregation and professional comparison on the quality of the programmes. It is the right venue where one can collaborate and define agreements and exchange points of view.
The public participates in the concerts, films, shows, previews, round tables, “all night out”, master classes, radio and web events. Thanks to the “on demand” position everyone can listen and watch all the best worldwide programmes in competition.
List of laureates
- Colin BlackColin BlackColin Black is an Australian experimental music composer and sonic media arts practitioner and researcher. Black won the 2003 Prix Italia Award in the category of Best Radio Music — Composed Work for composing and producing The Ears Outside My Listening Room .Black's commissions to create...
in 2003 - Lorenzo FerreroLorenzo FerreroLorenzo Ferrero is a contemporary Italian composer with a predilection for opera, a librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and wrote over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo...
in 1986 - Luciano BerioLuciano BerioLuciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
in 1982 - Eric SalzmanEric SalzmanEric Salzman is an American composer, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer.After studying composition with Morris Mawner at the New York High School of Music and Art , he continued his studies at Columbia University , where his teachers included Jack Beeson, Otto Luening and...
in 1980 - Roland JofféRoland JofféRoland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...
in 1978 - Bent Lorentzen in 1970
- Claude AvelineClaude AvelineClaude Aveline, pen name of Evgen Avtsine , was a writer, publisher, editor, poet and member of the French Resistance. Aveline, who was born in Paris, France, has authored numerous books and writings throughout his writing career...
in 1955
External links
- Prix Italia website
- Information from IMDB