Status: 06/15/2021 00:01 AM
Tabea Zimmermann received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2020 today. This is the first time that the prize, endowed with 250,000 euros, has gone to a violist.
The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts was the last German to have 2015 Christoph Eschenbach with the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize appreciated.
Zimmermann was born in Lahr in the Black Forest in 1966. She started making music at the age of three. Because the other string instruments at home were already taken to their siblings, “only” the viola was left for them. You could say today: a stroke of luck. Because for many years she has been one of the leading musicians on this instrument. She wanted to invest the prize money in promoting young musicians and music projects, she said in an interview with NDR Kultur.
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