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 2006

Photo: © Patrik Österberg / Polar Music Prize

The POLAR MUSIC PRIZE was presented on Monday 22 May for the fifteenth year in succession.
The laureates were the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev and the British rock group Led Zeppelin.
Each laureate received prize money to the amount of one million Swedish kronor.

His Majesty the King of Sweden awarded the prizes during a nationally televised (TV4) ceremony,
which took place at the Stockholm Concert Hall. The subsequent banquet and after-party were held
at the Grand Hotel’s Winter Garden and Berns respectively.

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VIDEO

THE PRIZE CEREMONY AT STOCKHOLM CONCERT HALL
AND THE BANQUET AT THE WINTER GARDEN, GRAND HÔTEL,
STOCKHOLM, 22TH MAY 2006 (TV4 BROADCAST) - 53:32
[ BROADBAND ] - Windows Media Player 9

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