Grand Prix du Disque for Modern Music
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The Grand Prix du Disque for Modern Music is awarded by L'Académie Charles Cros
of France
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The following is a partial list of winners (sometimes more than one per year):
L'Académie Charles Cros
The Académie Charles-Cros, is an organization in France that acts as an intermediary between government cultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry....
of France
France
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The following is a partial list of winners (sometimes more than one per year):
2002
- Ensemble Modern conducted by D. My for their recording of Wolfgang RihmWolfgang RihmWolfgang Rihm is a German composer.Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival...
: Jagden und Formen für Orchester
2003
- Elisabeth ChojnackaElisabeth ChojnackaElisabeth Chojnacka is a Polish harpsichordist living in France. She is one of the world's foremost harpsichordists specializing in the performance of contemporary harpsichord music....
, harpsichord, for her recording of works by Maurice OhanaMaurice OhanaMaurice Ohana was an Anglo-French composer of Sephardic Jewish origin.Ohana was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He was a British citizen until 1976, as his father had been born in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. He originally studied architecture, but abandoned this in favour of a...
. - Les Jeunes Solistes under the direction of Rachid Safir for their album of songs by Claude VivierClaude Vivier-Biography:Born to unknown parents in Montreal, Vivier was adopted at the age of three by a poor French-Canadian family. From the age of thirteen, he attended boarding schools run by the Marist Brothers, a religious order that prepared young boys for a vocation in the priesthood. At the age of...
2004
- Les Percussion de Strasbourg for their recording of Gerard GriseyGérard GriseyGérard Grisey was a French composer of contemporary music.-Biography:Gérard Grisey was born in Belfort, France on 17 June 1946. He studied at the Trossingen Conservatory in Germany from 1963 to 1965 before entering the Conservatoire de Paris...
Le noir de l'étoile. - Dimitri Vassilakis, piano for his album Marin Matalon Le scorpion
2005
- Winston Choi for his recording of Jacques LenotJacques LenotJacques Lenot is a French composer, who has followed an independent and self-taught course. His compositional techniques are derived from serialism.-Biography:...
works for piano. - ZWR Sinfonie Orchester directed by S. Cambreling for their recording of Helmut LachenmannHelmut LachenmannHelmut Lachenmann is a German composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.-Life and works:...
: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern