IGEB, the International Society for the Promotion and Research of Wind Music, is proud to announce the winners of the Thelen Prize for 2012. The prize, awarded biennially, memorializes Fritz Thelen, one of IGEBs cofounders. It will be presented at the conference in Coimbra, Portugal, between July 12 and 17, 2012.
The 2012 Screening Committee (Wolfgang Suppan (Pürgg, Austria), Raoul Camus (New York, USA), Hellmut Mahling (Mainz, Germany)) and the 2012 Selection Committee (Klaus Aringer (Graz, Austria), Robert Grechesky (Indianapolis, USA), Francis Pieters (Kortrijk, Belgium) choose the following outstanding dissertations in the field of wind music research:
David GASCHE, PhD
La musique de circonstance pour Harmoniemusik à Vienne (1760-1820), Universities of Vienna (A) and Tours (F), 2009
Peter HECKL, PhD.
W. A. Mozarts Instrumentalkompositionen in Bearbeitungen für Harmoniemusik vor 1840, Oberschützen (A), 2011