The Mauricio Kagel Music Prize for 2013 has been awarded to Michel van de Aa by the North Rhine-Westphalia Arts Foundation. It will be presented to the composer on 28 April during the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik.

The prize, worth a total of €50,000, of which €20,000 is to be used to fund a new project for the North Rhine-Westphalia region, is rewarded every two years, and was first given in 2011.

[Source: www.vanderaa.net]