Lucerne Festival wins a Young Ears Award
This year's Young Ears Awards of the Young Ears Network were presented in the Chamber Music Hall of the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. One of the three awards, each endowed with 5000 euros, goes to the Lucerne Festival's "Heroïca" project.
In the category Best Practice, Concert the Lucerne Festival is honored for "Heroïca". The staged concert with seven young members of the Lucerne Festival Academy combines musical miniatures in a revue. According to the award announcement, the program is characterized by a joy of playing, dynamism and humour, which also shows courage in its quiet tones.
The category Best Practice, Participatory Concert was won by the Ruhr Piano Festival with "A Year with György Ligeti". In an inclusive approach, 165 young people in Duisburg-Marxloh creatively explored the composer's music and discovered equal forms of collaboration in the artistic process.
Director Verena Ries and the Quartet Plus 1 won the new concept category with their idea for the participatory music theater "The Best Funeral in the World" Lab ear. A collective composition is planned in the space on questions about the end of life. Musical and performative elements merge in the interaction with the audience to form a poetic ritual hybrid.
The Junge Ohren Prize has been awarded by the Netzwerk Junge Ohren since 2006. The competition for young music formats is supported in its Best practice-category by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and in the category Lab ear from the Strecker Foundation. The prize will celebrate its tenth anniversary next year.
