KURT WEILL PRIZE
In September 1994, the Board of Trustees of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music announced the establishment of a Kurt Weill Prize, which is awarded biannually in association with the American Musicological Society, American Society for Theatre Research, and the Modern Language Association. The purpose of the Kurt Weill Prize is to encourage distinguished scholarship in the disciplines of music, theater, dance, literary criticism and history addressing twentieth-century music theater (including opera).
American composer Virgil Thomson wrote in 1950 that Weill was "probably the most original single workman in the whole musical theater, internationally considered, during the last quarter century." Weill's works crossed several genres and his creative life spanned two continents; his Threepenny Opera has entered the musical canon as one of the masterpieces for the musical stage of this century. The idea for establishing this Prize originated from Harold Prince, renowned director of the musical stage and Board member of the Kurt Weill Foundation. Prince suggested the Prize as a means of recognizing excellence in the scholarly domain of music theater in the broadest sense.
Call for Nominations
2007 Award
2005 Award
2003 Award
2001 Award
1999 Award
1997 Award
1995 Award
For further information, please contact the Kurt Weill Foundation at kwfinfo@kwf.org.