Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize
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The Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize is an award given by the Royal Academy of Music
and sponsored by the Kohn Foundation
to performers and scholars who have made an outstanding contribution to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
.
The prize was first awarded to Prof. Christoph Wolff
in 2006, to pianist András Schiff
in 2007, to Sir John Eliot Gardiner
in 2008 and to the German tenor and conductor Peter Schreier
in 2009. The 2010 prize was awarded to John A Butt
. In 2011 the prize went to the Thomanerchor Leipzig.
The prize is worth £10,000 and the panel of the prize consists of the principal of the Royal Academy of Music, a previous winner of the prize and Ralph Kohn
.
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
and sponsored by the Kohn Foundation
Ralph Kohn
Sir Ralph Kohn FRS is a British businessman, recipient of the Queen's Award for Export Achievement for his work in the pharmaceutical industry...
to performers and scholars who have made an outstanding contribution to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
.
The prize was first awarded to Prof. Christoph Wolff
Christoph Wolff
Christoph Wolff is a German-born musicologist, presently on the faculty of Harvard University. Born and educated in Germany, Wolff studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and the Music Academy of Freiburg, receiving a...
in 2006, to pianist András Schiff
András Schiff
András Schiff is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist, who has won a number of awards including the Grammy and made numerous recordings.- Biography :...
in 2007, to Sir John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner
Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE FKC is an English conductor. He founded the Monteverdi Choir , the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique...
in 2008 and to the German tenor and conductor Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier is a German tenor and conductor.-Early life:Schreier was born in Meissen, Saxony, and spent his first years in the small village of Gauernitz, near Meissen, where his father was a teacher, cantor and organist...
in 2009. The 2010 prize was awarded to John A Butt
John A Butt
John A Butt is an orchestral and choral conductor, organist, harpsichordist and scholar who has held the Gardiner Chair of Music at the University of Glasgow since 2001, and has led the Dunedin Consort, a professional vocal ensemble centered in Edinburgh, since 2003.-Biography:John Butt was born...
. In 2011 the prize went to the Thomanerchor Leipzig.
The prize is worth £10,000 and the panel of the prize consists of the principal of the Royal Academy of Music, a previous winner of the prize and Ralph Kohn
Ralph Kohn
Sir Ralph Kohn FRS is a British businessman, recipient of the Queen's Award for Export Achievement for his work in the pharmaceutical industry...
.