Sep 16, 2015 | Wencke Wallbaum News & Artists & Release Heinz Holliger gets Swiss Grand Award for Music 2015
Holliger, who is currently on tour in Japan, accepted the award by live video link during the presentation ceremony in Basel Cathedral attended by Federal Councillor Alain Berset. Chosen from among 15 nominees by the Federal Music Jury, he receives the sum of CHF 100,000.
Here you can read the full text of the honorific speech:
- Artist: Heinz Holliger
- https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/klassik/der-neugierige/story/12123611
- Series: Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under the Direction of Heinz Holliger
- https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/klassik/der-neugierige/story/12123611