The composer and conductor Pierre Boulez will be honored with the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, which is endowed with 400,000 euros.
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award has been presented by the Spanish financial group BBVA since 2008 in eight categories, including biomedical scientists, economists and management specialists.
The jury for the Contemporary Music category includes composer Cristobal Halffter, Winrich Hopp, artistic director of Musikfest Berlin, and composer and conductor Johannes Kalitzke.
Previous winners of the prize are Salvatore Sciarrino (2011), Helmut Lachenmann (2010) and Cristobal Halffter (2009).
