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Rome, 27 jun (EFE) .- The composer and conductor Peter Eötvös Hungarian has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 55th International Festival of Contemporary Music in Venice, to be held the next September 24 to October 1.
The organization of Italian music festival, which will present the award at the inaugural ceremony on 24 September, reports today in a statement that also has decided to award the Silver Lion for new generations to Italian RepertorioZero.
Eötvös, "leader of precocious and talented, has been an assistant for many years of Karlheinz Stockhausen, whether as a composer" or director "of choice for its work, including the great operas created in Scala (Milan) for thirty years, "underlines the failure of the prize.
"The extraordinary experiences by the greatest composers have made Eötvös is immersed in a rich river of thought and practice of music, creating a musician and a craftsman quite complete, in the last twenty years has shown a very fruitful and creative force composer, "he continues.
Eötvös (Székelyudvarhely, 1944) has worked with major European radio orchestras in prestigious temples and directed the music and the theater La Scala (Milan), Royal Opera House (London) and the Royal Theatre de La Monnaie (Brussels).
