Mundry awarded Happy New Ears prize
The 2013 Happy New Ears Prizes of the Hans and Gertrud Zender Foundation, each worth 10,000 euros, were awarded in Munich to the composer Isabel Mundry and the music journalist Martin Zenck.
According to a statement from Bayerischer Rundfunk, the prize was awarded to a musician who has made critical questioning her trademark. In keeping with this attitude, every piece of music must make sense of its material, its arrangement on both a small and large scale and legitimize it through its content and intended message. This is a very high standard, which Mundry naturally also demands for her own works.
Along with the prize, Isabel Mundry, who also teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), was commissioned to compose an orchestral work, which was premiered at the award ceremony. She has reworked the piano concerto "Ich und Du" from 2008. The result was presented by pianist Nicolas Hodges together with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Emilio Pomarico.
