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Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize

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The Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize is an award given by the Royal Academy of Music in London. It is sponsored by the Kohn Foundation, and given to performers and scholars who have made an outstanding contribution to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Recipients have been:

  • 2006: Christoph Wolff
  • 2007: Sir András Schiff
  • 2008: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • 2009: Peter Schreier
  • 2010: John Butt
  • 2011: Thomanerchor Leipzig
  • 2012: Masaaki Suzuki
  • 2013: Murray Perahia
  • 2014: Ton Koopman
  • 2015: Rachel Podger
  • The prize is worth £10,000 and the panel of the prize consists of the principal of the Royal Academy of Music, a previous winner of the prize and Ralph Kohn.

    References

    Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize Wikipedia