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Thomas Larcher Awarded Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Elise L. Stoeger Prize

Jan. 06, 2015

Thomas Larcher Awarded Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Elise L. Stoeger Prize

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center announces Thomas Larcher as recipient of the 2014-2015 Elise L. Stoeger Prize. The award, a $25,000 cash prize, is bestowed every two years in recognition of achievement in the field of chamber music composition.

Chamber Music Society Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han comment:

We are thrilled to present the 2014-2015 Stoeger Prize to Thomas Larcher. As a composer of great achievement on canvasses both large and small, he merits specific recognition for his work in the highly concentrated art form of chamber music, for which his bountiful sonic imagination is tremendously well suited. We find his music deeply communicative yet uncompromising, essential qualities for the ongoing vitality of the chamber music tradition, so it is with great pleasure that we add his name to the already luminous roster of Stoeger Prize recipients.

Thomas Larcher responds:

All I have learned in music I learned by writing and playing chamber music: listening, breathing, balancing, living and working in and for a community. Chamber Music has always been the heart of music making. It comprises all the facets that music can contain and express, and has always been a field where new ideas have been explored, and where composers have opened doors which were crucial for them. I am very touched and honored that the Chamber Music Society considers my work to be a part of this great tradition.

The Chamber Music Society presents Larcher’s Mumien, for cello and piano, during its 2015-2016 season.

Previous Schott|EAM composers awarded the prize include Jörg Widmann (2008-2009), Pierre Jalbert (2006-2007), Thomas Adès (1998), and Oliver Knussen (1990).

For more information on Thomas Larcher, visit schott-music.com.

To learn more about the Elise L. Stoeger prize, visit chambermusicsociety.org.

Thomas Larcher
Mumien (2001)
for cello and piano
15’

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