Raoul Steffani receives the Dutch Music Prize 2023

We are incredibly proud of baritone Raoul Steffani, who is the recipient of the Dutch Music Prize 2023.

The Nederlandse Muziekprijs is the highest award that can be given to a musician by the Dutch state. He will receive the prize on October 13th, 2023 from the State Secretary for Culture Gunay Uslu during a concert with ASKO|Schönberg at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam.

The jury on Raoul Steffani
”Raoul Steffani does not just sing but speaks and communicates with his audience through music. Diction, intelligibility, a feeling for language, and, above all, a very individual and personal sound signature characterise his performances. He reaches out to his audience singing his lines and draws the public towards him in a very expressive and personal way.”

Concert and award ceremony on 13 October
Prior to the award ceremony, Raoul Steffani will showcase the diverse facets of his voice in a self-conceived concert with Asko|Schönberg, conducted by Ed Spanjaard. The evening is dedicated to music from the Baroque period and the Viennese fin de siècle, alternating between works by Bach and songs by Alma Mahler and Hans Pfitzner. The concert and award ceremony are open to the public. Tickets for the festive evening are available from today via Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.

Biography Raoul Steffani
Steffani studied singing at the conservatories in Amsterdam and Vienna and made his international debut at the Opéra National de Lyon. He is in great demand as a soloist in his native country and abroad and has a wide repertoire, from Baroque music to late Romantic and contemporary. Steffani has sung at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Bozar Brussels, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, among others. Soon he will make his debut at Wigmore Hall in London and at the Bregenzer Festspiele. He won several awards, performed at the Prinsengracht Concert and appeared in various radio and television programmes. He recently collaborated on Barbara Hannigan's CD Sehnsucht with Camerata RCO.

About the Nederlandse Muziekprijs
Winners of the Nederlandse Muziekprijs follow a study trajectory focusing on personal musical development. They work together with musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. At the end of the process, the Dutch Music Prize committee advises the Performing Arts Fund on whether the prize can be awarded. The committee consists of: Mauricio Fernandez, Hans Ferwerda, Ingrid Geerlings, Ad 's-Gravesande, Marcel Mandos, Simone Meijer, Bart Visman, Larissa Groeneveld, Ralph van Raat, and Karin Manuel as independent chairman.

Previous winners of the Dutch Music Prize include pianist Thomas Beijer, trombonist Sebastiaan Kemner and recorder player Lucie Horsch.

For more information and enquiries for Raoul Steffani, please contact Rozemarijn Tiben.

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