{"id":42714,"date":"2017-02-10T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=42714"},"modified":"2017-02-10T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:41:28","slug":"the-scoop-canadian-samy-moussa-named-winner-of-2017-hindemith-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/02\/10\/the-scoop-canadian-samy-moussa-named-winner-of-2017-hindemith-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Canadian Samy Moussa Named Winner Of 2017 Hindemith Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42730\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42730\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/Samy_Moussa_2017_H-Hoffmann_ed-Durand.jpg\" alt=\"Composer and conductor Samy Moussa (Photo: H. Hoffmann \/ ed. Durand)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/Samy_Moussa_2017_H-Hoffmann_ed-Durand.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/Samy_Moussa_2017_H-Hoffmann_ed-Durand-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/Samy_Moussa_2017_H-Hoffmann_ed-Durand-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer and conductor Samy Moussa (Photo: H. Hoffmann \/ ed. Durand)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Canadian-born composer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/2017\/01\/31\/qa-18-questions-for-samy-moussa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samy Moussa<\/a> (1984) has won this year&#8217;s Hindemith Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1990 the International Hindemith Prize has been awarded annually by Germany\u2019s Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and includes a monetary reward of 20,000 euros ($27,808 CAD). The prize honors outstanding contemporary composers and will be presented to Moussa by his mentor\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Christoph Eschenbach\u00a0<\/span>during a gala concert in July 2017.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I have always loved the music of Paul Hindemith,&#8221; Moussa said in a statement. &#8220;Therefore, it is a great honor to receive the prize bearing his name.\u00a0Conscious of music\u2019s power, Hindemith follows a remarkable ethic of composition. My personal quest for a form of truth and meaning through Art was well-put by Hindemith: &#8216;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I wish to thank the jury and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival for this award.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Moussa, a former student of Pierre Boulez, was named Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s \u201cComposer of the year\u201d in 2015. He now divides his time between Paris and Berlin and is published by Durand (Universal Music Publishing Classical).<\/p>\n<p>Previous Hindemith Prize winners include Olga Neuwirth (1999), Matthias Pintscher (2000), Thomas Ad\u00e8s (2001), J\u00f6rg Widmann (2002), Lera Auerbach (2005), Bernd Richard German (2014), and Anna Clyne (2016).<\/p>\n<h3>For more CLASSICAL MUSIC NEWS, visit\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/category\/scoop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>HERE<\/u><\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n<h3><b><i>#LUDWIGVAN<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian composer Samy Moussa (1984) has won this year&#8217;s Hindemith Prize with a monetary value of 20,000 euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":42730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6439,5,18,39],"tags":[9457,4392],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/Samy_Moussa_2017_H-Hoffmann_ed-Durand.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-b6W","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42733,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42714\/revisions\/42733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42714"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}