Just in: Dutch composer wins huge US prize for cello work

Just in: Dutch composer wins huge US prize for cello work

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norman lebrecht

December 03, 2018

The composer Joël Bons has been named winner of the $100,000 Grawemeyer Award for 2019.

Bons, 65, is a professor at the Amsterdam Conservatoire.

He receives the prize for ‘Nomaden,’ a one-hour work for diverse instruments, ranging from Chinese to Turkish to Azerbaijani.

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