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14 September 2017 Press release

PRINCE PIERRE OF MONACO FOUNDATION Press Release No. 3

High School Students’ Favourite Choice

and Young Music Fans’ Favourite Choice 

 

Keen to get a young audience involved in its prizes, the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation has asked two juries made up of school pupils in the Principality to award the High School Students’ Favourite Choice and the Young Music Fans’ Favourite Choice prizes.

 

High School Students’ Favourite Choice

Created in 2007 in collaboration with the Department of Education, the High School Students’ Favourite Choice offers a €6,000 prize donated by the Princess Grace Foundation.

 

Authors shortlisted:

Anne Françoise Brillot - Petit animal sauvage (The Small Wild Animal), Mercure de France, September 2016

Jean-Marc Ceci - Monsieur Origami (Mr Origami), Gallimard, August 2016

Gaël Faye - Petit pays (Small Country), Grasset, August 2016

Gilles Marchand - Une bouche sans personne (A Mouth without a Face), Aux Forges de Vulcain, August 2016

Line Papin - L’éveil (The Awakening), Stock, August 2016

Elisa Shua Dusapin - Hiver à Sokcho (Winter in Sokcho), Zoe, August 2016

 

Young Music Fans’ Favourite Choice

 

The Young Music Fans’ Favourite Choice was established in 2011, in collaboration with Monaco’s Prince Rainier III Academy of Music and Theatre and the Department of Education, Youth and Sport. Offering a prize of €6,000 donated by the Princess Grace Foundation, it is awarded each year to a recent musical composition.

 

Shortlisted works:

Robert HP Platz -Blau See (2014) – For oboe and orchestra

Philipp Maintz - Upon a Moment’s Shallow Rim (2015) – For cello and orchestra

Admir Shkurtaj - Katër I Radës. Il naufragio (2014) – Chamber orchestra

Miroslav Srnka - Move01/Move02 (2015) – For full orchestra

 

The winners of the Prince Pierre Foundation awards will be announced

on Thursday 5 October 2017 at 8 pm in the Salle Garnier

(entry is free but seats are limited)

The latest news from the Prince Pierre Foundation is available from: www.fondationprincepierre.mc

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