Everything about The Polar Music Prize totally explained
The
Polar Music Prize is an international music prize and awarded to individuals, groups or institutions in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music. The prize was founded in
1989 with an
endowment from publisher, lyricist and manager of the
Swedish pop music group
ABBA,
Stig “Stikkan” Anderson, and was named after Anderson's
Polar Music recording label.
The Polar is awarded by the
Royal Swedish Academy of Music, with annual award ceremonies held in
Stockholm each May, where the prize is presented to each laureate by
HM Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The prize purse is
SEK1 million (
ca. GB£85,000;
US$169,000).
Laureates
» 2008 -
Renée Fleming and
Pink Floyd
2007 -
Sonny Rollins and
Steve Reich » 2006 -
Led Zeppelin and
Valery Gergiev
2005 -
Gilberto Gil and
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau » 2004 -
B. B. King and
György Ligeti
2003 -
Keith Jarrett » 2002 -
Sofia Gubaidulina and
Miriam Makeba
2001 -
Burt Bacharach,
Robert Moog and
Karlheinz Stockhausen » 2000 -
Bob Dylan and
Isaac Stern
1999 -
Stevie Wonder and
Iannis Xenakis » 1998 -
Ray Charles and
Ravi Shankar
1997 -
Eric Ericson and
Bruce Springsteen » 1996 -
Pierre Boulez and
Joni Mitchell
1995 - Sir
Elton John and
Mstislav Rostropovich » 1994 -
Nikolaus Harnoncourt and
Quincy Jones
1993 -
Dizzy Gillespie and
Witold Lutosławski » 1992 - Sir
Paul McCartney and the
Baltic States of
Estonia,
Latvia and
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