Photo: Christian Vium
Composer Simon Steen-Andersen is one of three recipients of the Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize 2017. The prize is awarded to emerging young composers and confirms Simon Steen-Andersen’s position as one of his generation’s most prominent composers on the European contemporary music scene. The prize includes 35,000 euros and the recording of a portrait album.
Every year the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation awards 3 million euros to some of today’s most prominent composers, musicians and music researchers within contemporary music. Read more about the Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize here.