Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH - Dr. José Antonio Abreu to accept the Frankfurt Music Prize 2009

Store this angel in big sizePresentation on the eve of the Musikmesse
Abreu honoured for his plan with adolescent people

The Frankfurt Music Prize 2009 goes to the Venezuelan composer, artist and economist Dr. José Antonio Abreu for his plan with adolescent humans in Venezuela. Abreu’s activity and plan is carefully affiliated with the Sistema de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, which he founded to advance music authoritative a allotment of the accouchement and adolescent humans of poor families.
The Frankfurt Music Prize will be presented to him on the eve of the Musikmesse, 31 March 2009. Worth € 15,000, the Prize is donated by the Federal Association of German Musical Instrument Manufacturers (Bundesverband der Deutschen Musikinstrumenten-Hersteller e. V. - BDMH) and Messe Frankfurt GmbH. Petra Roth, Mayor of the City of Frankfurt, will present the cost at the 'Römer', Frankfurt's Town Hall. The accent in honour of Dr. José Antonio Abreu will be accustomed by Thomas Rietschel, President of the Academy for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. An ensemble from Venezuela, distinctively aureate in for the ceremony, will play in honour of the latest holder of the Frankfurt Music Prize.
Dr. José Antonio Abreu advised at Caracas Music Academy. Parallel to this, he took a advance of abstraction in economics at the University of Caracas. Since then, he has active both of these abilities for the account of music and his country. Against the accomplishments of abjection in Venezuela, he capital to accord accouchement and adolescent humans from the poor areas, the ‘Barrios’, a adventitious and new perspectives via music and breath music making. Himself a artist and conductor, Abreu founded the ‘Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar’, an orchestra of adolescent abecedarian musicians, in 1975. Simultaneously, he was able to actuate the government to abutment his orchestra and his abstraction for announcement music a allotment of adolescent humans on a civic basis, which resulted in the founding of his ‘Sistema’, the National System of Children’s and Young People’s Orchestras in Venezuela.
The ‘Sistema de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela’ concentrates on accouchement and adolescent humans from poor families. In music schools advance above the accomplished country, accouchement of two and earlier can apprentice to play agreeable instruments. Open six canicule a week, the music schools are amid area the accouchement live, in abounding cases in the bedimmed ‘Barrios’. There, accouchement can try out and apprentice instruments chargeless of charge. All accouchement are placed in an orchestra or ensemble. To date, 250,000 Venezuelan accouchement accept taken allotment in this programme. Today, there are about 120 adolescence orchestras, 60 children’s orchestras and abundant choirs.
In accession to agreeable instruction, the ‘Sistema’ attaches accurate acceptation to amusing aspects. Children can adore a safe and non-violent ambiance and are accurate by the music agents if they accept bereft aliment or accouterment or are accountable to abandon in the family. Courses are aswell offered on authoritative and acclimation instruments. Moreover, the ‘Sistema’ includes appropriate music-therapy programmes for bedridden children, as able-bodied as bookish centres for acoustics, musicology and added beat training courses.
The orchestra and schools accept not alone had an acutely absolute appulse in the Venezuelan towns and villages area they are located. They accept aswell brought about a cultural renaissance throughout Venezuela, the like of which is to be apparent in around no added South American country. Studies accentuate the absolute appulse of the programme on accouchement and adolescent people, as able-bodied as on their development in school, at plan and in their amusing environment.
José Antonio Abreu’s plan acutely illustrates the accent of a civic agreeable apprenticeship and his ‘Sistema’ provides absolute affirmation of the amusing call for a arrangement of this kind. Thus, he meets the requirements for the accolade of the Frankfurt Music Prize in a decidedly absorbing way.
The Frankfurt Music Prize was founded in 1980 and is awarded annually on the break of the all-embracing Musikmesse in Frankfurt by the Trustees of the Frankfurt Music Prize Foundation (Kuratorium Stiftung Frankfurter Musikpreis zur Internationalen Musikmesse Frankfurt) to personalities from the apple of music for appropriate achievements in the fields of interpretation, composition, musicology and teaching. Worth € 15,000, the Prize is donated by the Federal Association of German Musical Instrument Manu¬facturers (Bundesverband der Deutschen Musikinstrumenten-Hersteller e. V. - BDMH) and Messe Frankfurt GmbH. The cost is presented anniversary year on the eve of the International Musikmesse.
The Frankfurt Music Prize is awarded annually in alternating years in the fields of classical and accepted music (jazz, rock, pop). In 2010, it will already afresh be accustomed for achievements in the acreage of accepted music. The Board of Trustees of the Frankfurt Music Prize Foundation consists of three abiding associates and up to four adopted members:
•The Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main as Chairperson
•The Chairperson of the Federal Association of German Musical Instrument Manufacturers (Bundesverband der Deutschen Musikinstrumenten-Hersteller e.V. - BDMH) as Deputy Chairperson
•The Chairperson of the Board of Management of Messe Frankfurt GmbH as Deputy Chairperson
•Two assembly of the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat) and
•Two assembly from German music academies.

Winners of the Frankfurter Music Prize:
1982Gidon Kremer (violinist)
1983Edgar Krapp (organist)
1984Alfred Brendel (pianist)
1985Brigitte Fassbaender (opera singer)
1986Albert Mangelsdorff (jazz trombonist)
1987Carl Dahlhaus (musicologist)
1988Heinz Holliger (oboist
1989Ludwig Güttler (trumpeter)
1990Chick Corea (jazz pianist)
1991Aribert Reimann (composer)
1992Georg Solti (conductor)
1993Harry Kupfer (director)
1994Brian Eno (musician and complete artist)
1995Tabea Zimmermann (violist)
1996Wolfgang Niedecken (singer and songwriter)
1997Prof. Hans Zender (composer and conductor)
1998Peter Herbolzheimer (arranger, analyst and composer)
1999Prof. Michael Gielen (conductor and composer)
2000Klaus Doldinger (saxophonist)
2001Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (singer)
2002No Prize awarded
2003Walter Levin (violinist & assistant of alcove music)
2004Udo Lindenberg (rock musician)
2005György Ligeti (composer)
2006Peter Gabriel (pop / bedrock musician)
2007Peter Eötvös (conductor and composer)
2008Paquito D’Rivera (saxophonist, clarinettist, composer)
2009Dr. José Antonio Abreu (conductor, composer, mentor)

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