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Simon Steen-Andersen Receives Composers’ Prize

Composer Simon Steen-Andersen is one of three recipients of the Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize 2017.

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.