Cerha to get Salzburg gong
Friedrich Cerha will be honoured with the 2011 Salzburg Music Prize, it has emerged.The 84-year-old composer and conductor who received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2005 is the third artist after Salvatore Sciarrino and Klaus Huber to get the award which includes a prize money of 60,000 Euros.The three-member jury today (Thurs) acknowledged the Vienna-born artists compositions as “successful mergers of avant-garde techniques and old structures”.
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