Belmont Prize

The Belmont Prize is a music award named after the place of destiny in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The Munich-based Forberg Schneider Foundation, founded in 1997, promotes outstanding achievements in the field of contemporary music. The biennially-awarded prize is endowed with €20,000 and is one of Europe’s highest endowed awards for artistic creation.

Recipients

 * 1999 Jörg Widmann
 * 2001 Florent Boffard
 * 2004 Carolin Widmann
 * 2005 Quatuor Ébène
 * 2007 Bruno Mantovani
 * 2009 Marino Formenti
 * 2012 Alex Ross
 * 2013 Sabrina Hölzer
 * 2015 Milica Djordjevic
 * 2018 Eamonn Quinn
 * 2020 Florian Weber
 * 2022 Sarah Aristidou