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| John McLaughlin to receive the 30th Frankfurt Music Prize  British guitarist John McLaughlin is to receive the Frankfurt Music Prize for 2012. McLaughlin, who celebrated his 70th birthday this year, has been a dominant influence on the European and international music scene with his guitar playing for over 50 years. The presentation of the 30th Frankfurt Music Prize will be held on the eve of the coming Musikmesse, 20 March 2012.The Frankfurt Music Prize is worth € 15,000 Euro and is sponsored by the Federal Association of German Musical Instrument Manufacturers (Bundesverband der Deutschen Musikinstrumenten-Hersteller e.V.) and Messe Frankfurt. According to the jury of the Frankfurt Music Prize, John McLaughlin is a musician whose work, "has always been characterised by respect and openness with regard to many other directions, forms of expression and cultures, and not by genre borders and dogmatism". For the jurors, John McLaughlin is a person who can be described as a world musician. Winners of the Frankfurter Music Prize: 1982 Gidon Kremer (violinist) 1983 Edgar Krapp (organist) 1984 Alfred Brendel (pianist) 1985 Brigitte Fassbaender (opera singer) 1986 Albert Mangelsdorff (jazz trombonist) 1987 Carl Dahlhaus (musicologist) 1988 Heinz Holliger (oboist) 1989 Ludwig Güttler (trumpeter) 1990 Chick Corea (jazz pianist) 1991 Aribert Reimann (composer) 1992 Georg Solti (conductor) 1993 Harry Kupfer (director) 1994 Brian Eno (musician and sound artist) 1995 Tabea Zimmermann (violist) 1996 Wolfgang Niedecken (singer and songwriter) 1997 Prof. Hans Zender (composer and conductor) 1998 Peter Herbolzheimer (arranger, interpreter and composer) 1999 Prof. Michael Gielen (conductor and composer) 2000 Klaus Doldinger (saxophonist). write your comments about the article :: © 2012 Exhibition News :: home page |