Sir Simon Rattle Wins 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize

By Francisco Salazar

Sir Simon Rattle has been awarded the 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.

The prize is worth €250,000 and is recognizing his lifelong contributions to music. The Ernst von Siemens Music Prize and the Composer Prizes will be presented on May 17, 2025, in the Herkules Hall of the Munich Residence.

The British-Jamaican opera singer Sir Willard White will deliver the laudatory address for Sir Simon Rattle and Members of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks will perform Arnold Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No.1, conducted by Rattle. The Riot Ensemble, which received the first Ensemble Prize in 2020, will present works by the Composer Prize winners, who will also be introduced in short film portraits by Johannes List.

Rattle studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he graduated in 1974 and began an 18-year tenure as principal conductor and artistic adviser of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has been the principal conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the London Symphony Orchestra. He is “Principal Artist” of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the First Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, and maintains long-standing relationships with other top orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic or the Berlin Staatskapelle, and with renowned opera houses including the Royal Opera House in London, the Berlin State Opera, the New York Met, and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

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