PRIZES & AWARDS
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Premio Accademia Musicale Chigiana 1984
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Diapason D’Or 1981
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Grand Prix du Disque 1992, 1997, 1998
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Gramophone Award 1994
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Edison Award 1985 for the Prokofiev Violin Concertos, recording with Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Claudio Abbado.
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Edison Award 2001, 2007
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Honorary Doctoral Degree In 2006 Shlomo Mintz was granted a Honorary Doctoral Degree by the Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
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Cremona Music Award, 2016
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Artistic Director of Crans Montana Classics, 2012 - present
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Artistic Director of the International Music Festival Sion Valais, 2002 – 2012
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Principal guest conductor of Zagreb Philharmonic, 2008-2010
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Arena di Verona, 1999-2000
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Artistic Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor of the Maastricht Symphony Orchestra (LSO, The Netherlands), 1994-1998. With this orchestra Shlomo Mintz played Paganini’s 1st Violin Concerto using 'Il Cannone', the famous violin of Niccòlo Paganini. This amazing project was realized in a concert under the baton of Yoel Levi.
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Music Advisor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra, 1989 - 1993
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EDUCATOR
Shlomo Mintz is one of the founders of the Keshet Eilon International Violin Mastercourse in Israel, an advanced-level summer program for young talented violinists from all around the world in Kibbutz Eilon, Israel. He was their Patron for eighteen years (1992-2010). Between 2002 - 2011, he has been the President of the Jury of the Sion Valais-International Violin Competition in Switzerland, and the Artistic Director of Crans Montana Classics, a high-level violin Mastercourse in Switzerland, for seven years (2012 - 2018).
Mintz has been a member of many international competition juries in the past, such as the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1993) and the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels (1993 and 2001). In October 2001 Mr. Mintz was the President of the Jury of the International Henryk Wieniawski Competition for the Violin in Poznań, Poland.
Currently, he is the Mentor and President of the Jury of the International Violin Competition Buenos Aires in Argentina, President of Jury and Artistic Director of Tucuman (Argentina) Festival and National Violin Competition, as well as the president of the Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition in Japan and the Ilona Fehér Budapest Violin Competition in Hungary.