The Nordic Council Music Prize 2022, awarded to Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist.
Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist has won the annual Music Prize awarded by the Nordic Council – the interparliamentary cooperation organisation formed by the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and the autonomous regions of Åland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The jury’s decision was announced at a live ceremony held at Musiikkitalo (the Helsinki Music Centre).
The Nordic Council Music Prize was first awarded in 1965 and recognises musical creation and performance of the highest artistic level. The prize is endowed with DKK 300,000 (about EUR 40,290) and is awarded in alternate years to a work by a living composer one year and to an individual performer or ensemble the next. This year the music prize was awarded to the work of a composer, in this case Silent Earth by Sweden’s Karin Rehnqvist.
The other nominees this year were Denmark’s Line Tjørnhøj (for ENTMENSCHT) and SØS Gunver Ryberg (for Whyt 030); Finland’s Minna Leinonen (for Alma! ) and Yona (for Uni johon herään); Faroese Unn Paturson (for 1902); Greenland’s Andachan (for Visualize Happiness); Iceland’s Bára Gísladóttir (for VÍDDIR) and Sóley Stefánsdóttir (for Mother Melancholia); Norway’s Øyvind Torvund (for The Exotica Album) and Knut Vaage (for Hybrid Spetakkel) and Sweden’s Ebo Krdum (for Diversity).