Grand Prix Music for Sophie Hunger
The Swiss Grand Prix Music 2016, endowed with 100,000 Swiss francs, goes to Sophie Hunger. She was selected from 15 nominees on the recommendation of the Swiss Federal Music Jury.
Born in 1983, pop musician Sophie Hunger released her first album in 2007. A year later, she was already playing at the Montreux Jazz Festival. She composes and sings in Swiss German, French and English and has since gained a worldwide audience.
The fifteen nominees for the Swiss Grand Prix Music 2016 were: Susanne Abbuehl (Lucerne), Laurent Aubert (Geneva), Sophie Hunger (Berlin / Zurich), Philippe Jordan (Paris / Vienna), Tobias Jundt (Berlin), Peter Kernel (Barbara Lehnhoff & Aris Bassetti, Iseo), Matthieu Michel (Vevey), Fabian Müller (Zurich), Nadja Räss (Einsiedeln), Mathias Rüegg (Vienna), Hansheinz Schneeberger (Basel), Colin Vallon (Vevey / Basel), Hans Wüthrich (Arlesheim), Lingling Yu (Puplinge) and Alfred Zimmerlin (Uster). They will each receive prize money of 25,000 francs.
The Federal Office of Culture FOC has awarded the Swiss Grand Prix Music for the third time. The aim of the award is to "recognize outstanding creations by individual musicians or groups". Once again this year, the fifteen nominees represent the entire spectrum of Swiss music creation.
