Nordic Council Music Prize

The Nordic Council Music Prize focuses on the performance and creation of music of a high artistic standard. The prize is awarded on alternate years to a piece of music by a living composer and to a small or large ensemble.

About the Nordic Council Music Prize

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About the Nordic Council’s prizes

The Nordic Council awards five prizes every year: The Literature Prize, the Film Prize, the Music Prize, the Environment Prize, and the Children and Young People’s Literature Prize.

Videos

10.05.22

12 nominerade till Nordiska rådets musikpris 2022🌟

21.02.22

The nominees for the Nordic Council Music Prize 2021: What sounds are Nordic?

02.11.21

Theatre of Voices - nominert til Nordisk råds musikkpris 2021

02.11.21

Gerth W. Lyberth - nominert til Nordisk råds musikkpris 2021

02.11.21

Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir - nominert til Nordisk råds musikkpris 2021

02.11.21

Stian Carstensen - nominert til Nordisk råds musikkpris 2021

02.11.21

Lena Willemark - nominert til Nordisk råds musikkpris 2021

02.11.21

Studio Barnhus - nominert til Nordisk råds musikkpris 2021

Winners

2021

Winner of the 2021 Nordic Council Music Prize

The 2021 Nordic Council Music Prize goes to Eivør Pálsdóttir from the Faroe Islands.

2020

Winner of the 2020 Nordic Council Music Prize

The 2020 Nordic Council Music Prize goes to Sampo Haapamäki’s Quarter-tone Piano Concerto (2017).

2019

Winner of the 2019 Nordic Council Music Prize

The 2019 Nordic Council Music Prize goes to Gyða Valtýsdóttir from Iceland.

2018

Winner of the Nordic Council Music Prize 2018

The Nordic Council Music Prize 2018 goes to Norway’s Nils Henrik Asheim for his work Muohta.

2017

The winner of the Nordic Council Music Prize 2017

The Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki has been awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize 2017.

2016

Winner of the Nordic Council Music Prize 2016

The winner of the 2016 Nordic Council Music Prize is Hans Abrahamsen from Denmark for the song cycle “Let Me Tell You”.

2015

Winner of the Nordic Council Music Prize 2015

The Nordic Council Music Prize 2015 has been awarded to Svante Henryson (Sweden)

2014

Winners of the Nordic Council Music Prize 2014

The Nordic Council Music Prize 2014 has been awarded to the Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen for Black Box Music at a ceremony in Stockholm.

Nominees

2022

Line Tjørnhøj

Line Tjørnhøj is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the work ENTMENSCHT (for vocal ensemble) (2018).

2022

Karin Rehnqvist

Karin Rehnqvist is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the choral and orchestral work Silent Earth (2020).

2022

Ebo Krdum

Ebo Krdum is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the album Diversity (2021).

2022

Knut Vaage

Knut Vaage is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the work Hybrid Spetakkel, ensemble, electronics and visuals (2020).

2022

Øyvind Torvund

Øyvind Torvund is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for The Exotica Album (2017).

2022

Sóley Stefánsdóttir

Sóley Stefánsdóttir is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the album Mother Melancholia (2021).

2022

Bára Gísladóttir

Bára Gísladóttir is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the work Víddir (for nine flutes) (2019-2020).

2022

Andachan

Andachan is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the album Visualize Happiness (2021).

2022

Unn Paturson

Unn Paturson is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the work 1902 (album) (2021).

2022

Yona

Yona is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize for the album Uni johon herään (which translates as The Dream I Wake Up To, released in 2021).