Sponsor / organizer: Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main e.V.
Established in: 2012
Categories: The "Schumann award for special services to music education" honours important contributions to music education.
Term: every two years
Award committee: The board of the Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main e.V.
Nature of the award / endowment: The award is endowed with 10,000.00 euros prize money intended as a contribution to projects that aim to introduce children to music.
Award winners:
2020
Sabine Mittenhuber, director of the children choir at Hessicher Rundfunk / Kinderchor Frankfurt im Hessischen Rundfunk
2018
Andreas Boltz, music director of the Dom/Cathedrale
and
Bjanka Ehry, director of the Frankfurter Domsingschule
2016
Tobias Henn, head of the programme "PEGASUS – Musik erleben!" of the Alte Oper in Frankfurt
2014
Clemens Greve, managing director of the civic trust "Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung im Holzhausenschlösschen".
2012
Prof. Felix Koch, professor of early music/Baroque cello and concert education/music appreciation at the Mainz School of Music of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz
Further information www.rsg-frankfurt.de (German only)