Peter Schreier - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

  • Sonning Award (1988; Denmark)
  • National First Class Prize of the GDR
  • Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of Federal Republic of Germany)
  • Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 1988
  • Honorary membership of the Musikverein Wien (Vienna Society of Music)
  • "Wiener Flötenuhr"
  • "Georg Philipp Telemann" Prize
  • European Church Music Prize
  • Title of Kammersänger (a title conferred to singers of outstanding merit) by the governments of the GDR, Bavaria and Austria
  • Honorary citizen of the town of Meissen because of his efforts in fund-raising for the restoration of the town.
  • He was awarded the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in 2009.

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