Kaija Saariaho is $500,000 richer
mainThe expat Finn has received the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award. It’s worth 400,000 Euros.
So who said there’s no money in composing?
UPDATE: The jury consisted of:
Nicholas Cook, Emeritus Professor of Music at Cambridge (UK).
Pwyll Ap Sion, Professor in Music at Bangor University (UK).
Tom Huizenga, NPR music producer.
The violinist Leila Josefowicz;
Andrew McGregor, BBC Radio 3;
and Alex Ross, New Yorker music critic.
Diverse, huh?
This is wonderful news! We can be assured that more good deeds will follow:
https://slippedisc.com/2017/12/composer-gives-1-2-million-to-her-local-concert-hall/
I’m very happy for her, we know that composers are always in dire need.
I’m sure she’s doing just fine already. I’ll never understand the classical music establishment’s constant need to reward itself with these big payouts when money is scarce.
It is symbolic…. for the party that gives. The more money is given to an artist, the more it says: look what a wonderful fish I have caught. Whether it is jusified or not, depends entirely upon the nature of the fish – is it really that big an animal or merely a sprat?