Nordic Council Music Prize

Nominations 2013

The Adjudication Committee has named 12 musicians, singers and ensembles who are contenders for the Nordic Council Music Prize 2013. The nominations are:

Nominations 2012

The Adjudication Committee for the Nordic Council's Music Prize has chosen to nominate 11 composers the Nordic Council Music Prize 2012.

Nominations 2011

12 musicians are competing for this year's prestigious, major Nordic music prize.

Nominations 2010

13 works are competing for this year's prestigious, major Nordic music prize for works by living composers.

Nominations 2009

The Nordic Council Music Prize is awarded on alternate years to a work by a living artist/composer and to an ensemble or music group of high artistic and technical standards which is inno...

Nominations 2008

Nominations for the Nordic Council's Music Prize 2008

Eric Ericson Chamber Choir

The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir from Stockholm was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize 2007.

The Swedish Radio Choir

The Swedish Radio Choir, established in 1932 and now consisting of 32 professional singers, has been one of the world leading a cappella choirs for several decades and been hired by orche...

Vokal Nord

Vokal Nord (Vocal North) is a 16-member choir from Tromsø, which took on its current form in 1997. Artistic leader Ragnar Rasmussen provides the choir with a firm base in North Norway. ...

The Norwegian Soloists' Choir

The Norwegian Soloists' Choir enjoys a unique position in Norwegian cultural life. The choir has premiered more than two hundred works, over three-quarters of which have been by comp...

Schola Cantorum

Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir, which was founded 10 years ago by its conductor Hörður Áskelsson, precentor at Hallgrím's Church in Reykjavík. Since the start, the choir has play...

Hamrarhlíðarkórinn

Hamrarhlíðarkórinn, founded by its conductor Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir in 1967, has been a leading Icelandic choir for four decades now. It consists of young students at Hamrahlíð Universit...

Tarira

Tarira is a chamber choir with 20 singers, the majority with long experience of choral singing and music in general. The choir was founded in spring 2002 and has been conducted by Sunleif...

Greenland National Choir

Grønlands Nationalkor, or Erinarsoqatigiissuit, consists of approximately 100 singers from 22 choirs around the country. Choral singing has become a regular and indispensable part of the ...

Philomela

Philomela is a 40-strong women's choir based in Helsinki. It is best known for its energetic and memorable performances, which have moved audiences in many different countries. ...

Emo Ensemble

Emo Ensemble is a chamber choir, which consists of young music students and professional singers. The choir was founded at Espoo Music Institute in the autumn 2000 by its conductor, Pasi ...

DR Vokalensemble

The DR Radio Choir turns 75 in 2007, an event being marked in an appropriate fashion throughout the year. In the 70 years since DR set up a chamber choir, it has changed its name several ...

Ars Nova

Ars Nova, one of the leading vocal groups in Scandinavia, specialises in classic as well as contemporary music. Paul Hillier from England, who is also a singer and author, has been the ch...

Natasha Barrett Self-portrait

Mads Lumholt

The Greenlandic work, Shaman, which was performed at the Etoiles Polaires Arctic Culture Festival 2004-05, is based on an old legend from Thule and is performed on stage by an internation...

Juhani Nuorvala

- Beat Routes (for percussion and electronics). Juhani Nuorvala draws on an even broader basis for inspiration, using elements from modernism, expressionism and different Neo approaches, ...

Kimmo Hakola

- Le Sacrifice (Oratory for solo soprano and violin, chamber orchestra and electronics). The oratorio Le Sacrifice marks the current pinnacle of Kimmo Hakola’s œuvre, which says a great d...

Kenneth Knudsen

- Black Diamond (Sound Installation). The young Kenneth Knudsen’s work in Danish rock, beat and jazz groups is a long way from the mature artist’s exploration of the possibilities afforde...

Ivar Frounberg

- (the Anatomy of a Point) (16 part chamber choir, tape and live electronics). Ivar Frounberg has also explored the opportunities for the utilization of computer technology in the process...

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Steindór Andersen, Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir , Jón Þór Birgisson, Georg Hólm, Orri Páll Dýrason og Kjartan Sveinsson.

The Nordic legends and myths of the Middle Ages have been sources of inspiration for many artists and composers, including Icelandic Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Sigur Rós.

Þuriður Jónsdóttir

When you listen to Þuriður Jónsdóttir’s nominated work, Flow and Fusion, for orchestra, percussion and electronically processed sound, you may be easily led to think of some of Ligeti’s o...

Kim Hiorthøy

- Hei (electronica CD). Kim Hiorthøy originally made a name for himself as a graphic designer in Norway. Before making his debut as a musician in 2000 he had done a number of record cover...