The Ensemble Modern's Awards

1985

  • Prize of the french foreign minister on the occasion of the European Year of Music

1987

  • Prize of the Critics of ›Verband der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der DDR‹ for excellent interpretation during the Music Biennale in Berlin
  • The German Record Critics' Award, Quarterly Critics' Choice 4/1987: Wolfgang Rihm - ›umsungen‹, Peter Ruzicka - ›...der die Gesänge zerschlug‹ (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Ernest Bour, conductor)

1987

  • Schneider Schott-Musikpreis 1987, Mainz

1989

  • Berlin Prize of the Critics of the ›Verband deutscher Kritiker‹ in the category of music, awards ceremony at the Academy of the Arts

1992

  • ›Hessischer Kulturpreis‹ 1992 from the state of Hesse in the category ›cultural mediation‹ for the interpretation of modern music

1993

  • The German Record Critics' Award, Quarterly Critics' Choice 4/1993: György Kurtág - ›Song Cycles‹ (Ensemble Modern/Peter Eötvös)
  • The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences nominates the CD ›Ives: A Portrait of Charles Ives‹ of the Ensemble Modern and Ingo Metzmacher as the best orchestral recording

1994

  • ›Kunstpreis Berlin‹ – Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948
  • Förderpreis Musik, awards ceremony at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin

1995

  • Stern der Woche, ABENDZEITUNG, for the week 19.-26. May 1995, Ensemble Modern under the direction of Peter Eötvös in the course of Dance 95 (Muffathalle, Munich)

1996

  • 1st ›Binding Kulturpreis‹

1997

  • Grammy Nominée (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences) - nominated for ›best small ensemble performance‹ for: ›John Adams: Chamber Symphony/Shaker Loops/Phrygian Gates‹ (Sian Edwards, conductor)
  • ECHO: German Record Award. Ensemble of the year with the recording ›Fighting the waves‹ of George Antheil under the direction of HK Gruber

1998

  • Prize of the spanish theatre critics ›best foreign production‹ 1998 for ›Black on White‹ by Heiner Goebbels

2000

  • The German Record Critics' Award - Quarterly Critics' Choice 1/2000: ›Dreigroschenoper‹ by Kurt Weill conducted by HK Gruber
  • 3rd prize of ›Scala‹ magazine in the category ›crossover vocal work‹

2004

  • ›ECHO Klassik‹: German Record Award, in the category ›best ensemble / orchestra‹ and ›best recording of chamber music‹ for the CD ›Ensemble Modern plays Frank Zappa Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions‹

2006

  • Awarded ›Artist of the Year‹ at Beijing Music Festival

2007

  • Ensemble Modern, Winner of the Landmarks in the Land of Ideas, Germany, 2007.

2009

  • The Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie recieves the Praetorius Music Prize Lower Saxony in the category ›music innovation‹
  • The Siemens AG awarded the ›Kulturförderpreis 2009‹ for ›into...‹, a project of Ensemble Modern and Siemens Arts Program in collobaration with the Goethe-Institut