Hans Abrahamsen to receive the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2019
The Sonning committee has announced that Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen will receive the Léonie Sonning Music Prize in 2019.
Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen will receive the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2019 at a concert to be held on 26 April 2019 at the DR Concert House, in which among others Abrahamsen's award-winning work let me tell you will be performed. The prize concert will be the main event of a mini festival with music by Hans Abrahamsen at concerts in Copenhagen and Aarhus.
The Léonie Sonning Music Prize is recognized as Denmark's highest musical honor, and was first awarded in 1959 to composer Igor Stravinsky.
Hans Abrahamsen is the 5th Dane to be awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the 16th composer. Earlier his teacher, composer Per Nørgård, has also received the prize.
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Hans Abrahamsen
10 Preludes, Six Pieces, Transcriptions of Satie & Nielsen
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Hans Abrahamsen
Works for Wind Quintet
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Hans Abrahamsen
Orchestral Works
A large number of the world’s leading orchestras have played Hans Abrahamsen’s music, including The Berlin Philharmonic, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Cleveland Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Hans Abrahamsen has also received a number of prizes. The most significant include the Carl Nielsen Prize in 1989 and in 2016 both the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for let me tell you and the Nordic Council Music Prize for let me tell you.