The Nederlandse Muziekprijs (literal translation, Dutch Music Prize) is an honour bestowed by the Dutch
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (; OCW) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for education, culture, science, research, gender equality and communications. The Ministry was created in 1918 as the Ministry of Education, Arts and Sci ...
to a musician working in
classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be #Relationship to other music traditions, distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical mu ...
. It is the highest such honour in Dutch music.
The ''Nederlandse Muziekprijs'' is awarded on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee for the Dutch Music Prize. The Fund for Amateur Art and Performing Arts (''Fonds Amateurkunst en Podiumkunsten''; FAPK) initially dispersed the awards. Beginning in 2007, by the Dutch Fund for Performing Arts+ (''Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten'') supervised the awards. In 2010, the Performing Arts Fund (''Fonds Podiumkunsten'') took over the awards. The advisory committee follows the candidate for a period of two years, during which the candidate undertakes a study program agreed by the committee. At the end of the study process, the committee decides after a concert or exam whether to award the prize.
Winners
* 1981: Hans Roelofsen (contrabass)
* 1984:
Ronald Brautigam
Ronald Brautigam (born 1 October 1954) is a Dutch concert pianist, best known for his performances of Beethoven's piano works on the fortepiano.
Born in Amsterdam, Brautigam studied there with Jan Wijn (1971-79), then he left to study in London ...
(piano)
* 1984:
Jard van Nes (mezzosoprano)
* 1985: Wout Oosterkamp (bass-baritone)
* 1987: Martijn van den Hoek (piano)
* 1987: Olga de Roos (saxophone)
* 1988: Jacob Slagter (horn)
* 1989: Theodora Geraets (violin)
* 1991:
Arno Bornkamp
file:Arno Bornkamp en Córdoba - Argentina - 2010.jpg, Arno Bornkamp en Córdoba - Argentina - 2010.
Arno Bornkamp (Amsterdam, 1959) is a Dutch Classical music, classical saxophone, saxophonist, the professor of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Co ...
(saxophone)
* 1992:
Pieter Wispelwey
Pieter Wispelwey (born 25 September 1962) is a Dutch cellist. In 1992, he was the first cellist to receive the Netherlands Music Prize, a government-awarded prize given to the most promising young musician in the Netherlands. He has come to b ...
(cello)
* 1993: Manja Smits (harp)
* 1994: Quirine Viersen (cello)
* 1996: Godelieve Schrama (harp)
* 1997: Geert Smits (baritone)
* 1999: Pauline Oostenrijk (oboe)
* 2003:
Janine Jansen
Janine Jansen (born ) is a Dutch violinist and violist.
Early life and education
Jansen was born in Soest in the Netherlands into a musical family. Her father plays organ, harpsichord and piano; from 1987 to mid-2011 he was the organist of ...
(violin)
* 2004:
Jörgen van Rijen
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Jörgen is known for its fine white wines. Next to the more common white w ...
(trombone)
* 2006:
Liza Ferschtman
Liza Ferschtman (born 1979) is a Dutch classical violinist who appears internationally, both as a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music. She received the Nederlandse Muziekprijs in 2006 and has directed the since 2007.
Education
Ferscht ...
(violin)
* 2007: Gwyneth Wentink (harp)
* 2008:
Christianne Stotijn (mezzosoprano)
* 2009:
(harp)
* 2009:
Bram van Sambeek (bassoon)
* 2010: Ties Mellema (saxophone)
* 2010:
Erik Bosgraaf (recorder)
* 2010:
Izhar Elias (guitar)
* 2010:
Henk Neven (baritone)
* 2012: Rick Stotijn (contrabass)
* 2016: Hannes Minnaar (piano)
* 2016:
Remy van Kesteren
Remy van Kesteren (8 March 1989) is a Dutch harpist and artistic director of the Dutch Harp Festival.
Education
Remy van Kesteren was admitted to the Utrechts Conservatorium into a class taught by at the age of ten and he graduated with the hig ...
(harp)
* 2017: Rob van de Laar (horn)
* 2018: Peter Gijsbertsen (tenor)
* 2018: Maria Milstein (violin)
* 2019: Dominique Vleeshouwers (percussion)
* 2020:
Lucie Horsch
Lucie Horsch (born 1999) is a Dutch recorder player.
Early life
Born 1999, Horsch started playing the recorder at the age of five, and received her first national recognition at the age of nine, when her performance at Kinderprinsengrachtcon ...
(recorder)
* 2021: Sebastiaan Kemner (trombone)
* 2022: Thomas Beijer (piano)
* 2023: Raoul Steffani (baritone)
* 2024: Laurent de Man (organ)
* 2024: Elisabeth Hetherington (soprano)
* 2025: Vincent van Amsterdam (
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
)
References
External links
Official Dutch-language homepage for the Nederlandse Muziekprijs
{{Classical music awards
Classical music awards
Dutch awards
European music awards