French pianist wins 250,000 Euros
mainIt has been announced in Munich that the 2017 International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize will go to the French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard ‘for a lifetime devoted to the service of music’.
Previous winners include Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen, György Kurtàg and György Ligeti.
The prize will be awarded on 2 June 2017 at the Prinzregententheater.
A wonderful choice. Congratulations Pierre-Laurent!
Tax man’s cut in France 70%?
That would still leave him with 75,000.
No tax at all in France for this sort of prize.
Bit of a strange priority this, I suppose this doesn’t change the artist’s life in very many ways at all, assuming he is well set considering he has played to packed concert halls for decades…