POLAR MUSIC PRIZE

Prize Ceremony

2008 - Renée Fleming and Pink Floyd

2007 - Steve Reich and Sonny Rollins

2006 - Valery Gergiev and Led Zeppelin

2005 - Gilberto Gil and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

2004 - B. B. King and György Ligeti

2003 - Keith Jarrett

2002 - Sofia Gubaidulina and Miriam Makeba

2001 - Burt Bacharach, Robert Moog and Karlheinz Stockhausen

2000 - Isaac Stern and Bob Dylan

1999 - Iannis Xenakis and Stevie Wonder

1998 - Ravi Shankar and Ray Charles

1997 - Eric Ericson and Bruce Springsteen

1996 - Joni Mitchell and Pierre Boulez

1995 - Mstislav Rostropovitch and Elton John

1994 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Quincy Jones

1993 - Witold Lutoslawski and Dizzy Gillespie

1992 - Sir Paul McCartney and The Baltic States

Prize Ceremony 2003

Photo: © Micael Engström

The POLAR MUSIC PRIZE was presented on Monday 12th May 2003
for the twelfth consecutive year. The prizewinner was Keith Jarrett.

He received prize money in the amount of one million Swedish Crowns (approx US$ 125.000 or € 111.000).
The prize was given to the Laureate by His Majesty The King of Sweden during a nationally-televised ceremony at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm.

Click here to See the photos from the festivities

VIDEO

VIDEO CLIP FROM THE PRIZE CEREMONY AT BERWALDHALLEN, STOCKHOLM 2003 (TV4 BROADCAST)
[ MODEM ] [ BROADBAND ] - Windows Media Player 9

SOUND SAMPLES FROM THE PRIZEWINNER

1. My Funny Valentine - Windows Media Player 9
(Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart) Chappell And Co., Inc./ASCAP
From the album "Tokyo '96", catalogue no. ECM 539955-2
(P) 1998 ECM Records GmbH

2. My Song - Windows Media Player 9
(Keith Jarrett) Cavelight Music/BMI-AMRA
From the album "My Song", catalogue no. ECM 821406-2
(P) 1978 ECM Records GmbH

Suite in G Minor, HWV 452 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
3. Allemande 2’47 - Windows Media Player 9
4. Courante 3’00 - Windows Media Player 9
5. Sarabande 2’15 - Windows Media Player 9
6. Gigue 1’21 - Windows Media Player 9
From the album "Händel, Suites for Keyboard", catalogue no. ECM 445298-2
(P) 1995 ECM Records GmbH

7. Over The Rainbow - Windows Media Player 9
(Harold Arlen/E.Y. Harburg) Leo Feist/ASCAP
From the album "La Scala", catalogue no. ECM 537268-2
(P) 1997 ECM Records GmbH

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