83 Industry Focus Awards ceremonies and events Every year, the musical-instrument sector takes advantage of the Musikmesse to present important awards for instruments and personalities from the music world and musical-instrument sector, such as the Frankfurt Music Prize, the PRG LEA and the German Music Instrument Award. British guitarist John McLaughlin (pictured, below left) receives the Frankfurt Music Prize for 2012. McLaughlin, who celebrated his 70th birthday this year, has been a dominant influence on the European and international music scene with his guitar playing for over 50 years. The presentation of the 30th Frankfurt Music Prize is held on the eve of the coming Musikmesse, 20 March 2012. The Frankfurt Music Prize is worth € 15,000 and is sponsored by the Federal Association of German Musical Instrument Manu¬facturers (Bundesverband der Deutschen MusikinstrumentenHersteller e.V.) and Messe Frankfurt. According to the jury of the Frankfurt Music Prize, John McLaughlin is a musician whose work, “has always been characterised by re¬spect and openness with regard to many other directions, forms of expression and cultures, and not by genre borders and dogmatism”. For the jurors, John McLaughlin is a person who can be described as a world musician. Previous winners of the Frankfurt Music Prize include; 1982 Gidon Kremer (violinist) 1983 Edgar Krapp (organist) 1984 Alfred Brendel (pianist) 1985 Brigitte Fassbaender (opera singer) 1986 Albert Mangelsdorff (jazz trombonist) 1987 Carl Dahlhaus (musicologist) 1988 Heinz Holliger (oboist) 1989 Ludwig Güttler (trumpeter) 1990 Chick Corea (jazz pianist) 1991 Aribert Reimann (composer) 1992 Georg Solti (conductor) 1993 Harry Kupfer (director) 1994 Brian Eno (musician and sound artist) 1995 Tabea Zimmermann (violist) 1996 Wolfgang Niedecken (singer and songwriter) 1997 Prof. Hans Zender (composer and conductor) 1998 Peter Herbolzheimer (arranger, interpreter and com¬poser) 1999 Prof. Michael Gielen (conductor and composer) 2000 Klaus Doldinger (saxophonist)
Musikmesse events In addition to the wide range of products and services in the field of musical instruments, music and sheet music, the Musikmesse also provides the setting for over 200 live concerts, competitions, workshops, product presentations and discussions. The event takes place in March every year in Frankfurt am Maim.
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Photos: Source - Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH, Ina Behrend John McLaughlin Source - Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH / Petra Welzel Michael Portnoy(Rammstein), Sabian Source - Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH / Pietro Sutera Rock, pop, jazz Source - Messegelände 1469 MFE Jochen Günther