Nordic Council Music Prize

Nominations 2013

The Adjudication Committee has named 12 musicians, singers and ensembles who are contenders for the Nordic Council Music Prize 2013. The nominations are:

Nominations 2012

The Adjudication Committee for the Nordic Council's Music Prize has chosen to nominate 11 composers the Nordic Council Music Prize 2012.

Nominations 2011

12 musicians are competing for this year's prestigious, major Nordic music prize.

Nominations 2010

13 works are competing for this year's prestigious, major Nordic music prize for works by living composers.

Nominations 2009

The Nordic Council Music Prize is awarded on alternate years to a work by a living artist/composer and to an ensemble or music group of high artistic and technical standards which is inno...

Nominations 2008

Nominations for the Nordic Council's Music Prize 2008

Eric Ericson Chamber Choir

The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir from Stockholm was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize 2007.

The Swedish Radio Choir

The Swedish Radio Choir, established in 1932 and now consisting of 32 professional singers, has been one of the world leading a cappella choirs for several decades and been hired by orche...

Vokal Nord

Vokal Nord (Vocal North) is a 16-member choir from Tromsø, which took on its current form in 1997. Artistic leader Ragnar Rasmussen provides the choir with a firm base in North Norway. ...

The Norwegian Soloists' Choir

The Norwegian Soloists' Choir enjoys a unique position in Norwegian cultural life. The choir has premiered more than two hundred works, over three-quarters of which have been by comp...

Schola Cantorum

Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir, which was founded 10 years ago by its conductor Hörður Áskelsson, precentor at Hallgrím's Church in Reykjavík. Since the start, the choir has play...

Hamrarhlíðarkórinn

Hamrarhlíðarkórinn, founded by its conductor Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir in 1967, has been a leading Icelandic choir for four decades now. It consists of young students at Hamrahlíð Universit...

Tarira

Tarira is a chamber choir with 20 singers, the majority with long experience of choral singing and music in general. The choir was founded in spring 2002 and has been conducted by Sunleif...

Greenland National Choir

Grønlands Nationalkor, or Erinarsoqatigiissuit, consists of approximately 100 singers from 22 choirs around the country. Choral singing has become a regular and indispensable part of the ...

Philomela

Philomela is a 40-strong women's choir based in Helsinki. It is best known for its energetic and memorable performances, which have moved audiences in many different countries. ...

Emo Ensemble

Emo Ensemble is a chamber choir, which consists of young music students and professional singers. The choir was founded at Espoo Music Institute in the autumn 2000 by its conductor, Pasi ...

DR Vokalensemble

The DR Radio Choir turns 75 in 2007, an event being marked in an appropriate fashion throughout the year. In the 70 years since DR set up a chamber choir, it has changed its name several ...

Ars Nova

Ars Nova, one of the leading vocal groups in Scandinavia, specialises in classic as well as contemporary music. Paul Hillier from England, who is also a singer and author, has been the ch...

Natasha Barrett Self-portrait

Mads Lumholt

The Greenlandic work, Shaman, which was performed at the Etoiles Polaires Arctic Culture Festival 2004-05, is based on an old legend from Thule and is performed on stage by an internation...

Tróndur Bogason

- 7 musicians (for solo-trombone and electroacoustics). The nominated work from the Faroe Islands is definitely a live work which is very difficult to experience in a recording.

Juhani Nuorvala

- Beat Routes (for percussion and electronics). Juhani Nuorvala draws on an even broader basis for inspiration, using elements from modernism, expressionism and different Neo approaches, ...

Kimmo Hakola

- Le Sacrifice (Oratory for solo soprano and violin, chamber orchestra and electronics). The oratorio Le Sacrifice marks the current pinnacle of Kimmo Hakola’s œuvre, which says a great d...

Kenneth Knudsen

- Black Diamond (Sound Installation). The young Kenneth Knudsen’s work in Danish rock, beat and jazz groups is a long way from the mature artist’s exploration of the possibilities afforde...

Ivar Frounberg

- (the Anatomy of a Point) (16 part chamber choir, tape and live electronics). Ivar Frounberg has also explored the opportunities for the utilization of computer technology in the process...

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Steindór Andersen, Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir , Jón Þór Birgisson, Georg Hólm, Orri Páll Dýrason og Kjartan Sveinsson.

The Nordic legends and myths of the Middle Ages have been sources of inspiration for many artists and composers, including Icelandic Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Sigur Rós.

Þuriður Jónsdóttir

When you listen to Þuriður Jónsdóttir’s nominated work, Flow and Fusion, for orchestra, percussion and electronically processed sound, you may be easily led to think of some of Ligeti’s o...

Kim Hiorthøy

- Hei (electronica CD). Kim Hiorthøy originally made a name for himself as a graphic designer in Norway. Before making his debut as a musician in 2000 he had done a number of record cover...

Klas Torstensson

- The Expedition (Opera). The only opera among the nominated works is the Swedish composer Klas Torstensson’s The Expedition, based on the Swedish balloonist and arctic explorer S.A. Andr...

Åke Parmerud

For nearly 30 years the Swedish composer Åke Parmerud has worked intensively with electro-acoustic music and multimedia art, and has not only achieved a high degree of technical perfectio...

Aldubáran

The name Aldubáran means 'little wave', and is a very apt name for this Faroese ensemble and its goals: as pioneers of Faroese music, to let ripples of inspiration spread from t...

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra

Just over 20 years have passed since Avanti! was founded, and since then the chamber orchestra has profiled itself as a quite extraordinary artistic powerhouse. The fact that the ensemble...

Zagros

In 1993 a group of students at the Sibelius Academy formed their own ensemble and called it the Zagros Ensemble.

LINensemble

The Danish clarinet trio LINensemble was formed in 1990, and consists of three very experienced men (Jens Schou, Erik Kaltoft and Jens Ehde), who each have a string of career credits befo...

Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen

Since its formation in 1990, Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen has made a name for itself not only as a very active but also as a truly ground-breaking ensemble. Thanks to the high professio...

Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra

I begyndelsen af 1970´erne vendte en gruppe unge musikere hjem til Island efter studier i udlandet for at spille i Iceland Symphony Orchestra og for at undervise ved the Reykjavík College...

Caput

Caput is largely responsible for contemporary Icelandic musical compositions having become as widely known as they are today. When the ensemble was formed in 1987, the opportunities for p...

Cikada

Cikada is known far beyond the borders of Norway for its repertoire, consisting partly of Nordic and partly of international contemporary music.

BIT20 ensemble

In the press material from the Norwegian BIT20 ensemble one can read that the mission of the ensemble is "… advancing performances of Norwegian and international art music of our tim...

Axelsson & Nilsson Duo

In 1986 two young Swedish musicians – the percussionist Jonny Axelsson and the trombonist Ivo Nilsson – met at the famous summer courses for contemporary music in Darmstadt. The meeting r...

Stockholm Saxophone Quartet

The Stockholm Saxophone Quartet has had the longest career of all this year's candidates. The ensemble was formed way back in 1969, and although there have of course been replacement...

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