Sarah Aristidou receives the 2022 Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music
7/11/2022
Sarah Aristidou receives the 2022 Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music which for the first time in its history is awarded to a vocalist. The awards ceremony takes place on 10 November 2022 in the Gartensaal of the Prinzregententheater in Munich and includes Sarah performing Thomas Larcher’s The Living Mountain with the Münchener Kammerorchester under Bas Wiegers — a piece she’s recorded with the MKO, and performed at Concertgebouw Amsterdam with ASKO | Schönberg.
The Foundation’s Board of Trustees concluded that “every note she sings is meticulously thought out and manifests razor-sharp intelligence, expression and sensuality”.
Sarah Aristidou’s artistic freedom is highlighted on her first album Æther, released in 2021. The album alludes to the ‘fifth element’ that seeks to cross boundaries between epochs, and it features works from Handel to Varèse, from Debussy to Adès, accompanied by such stellar musicians as Daniel Barenboim and Emmanuel Pahud. Outside the classical scene, in late 2021 she recorded Cypriot folksongs with the German-Turkish composer and sound-sculptor Kaan Bulak; together they will produce a remix with Ricardo Villalobos and Ale Hop.
Congratulations Sarah!