The Leonard Bernstein Award is a German music award endowed with 10,000 euros.
Since 2002, the award has been sponsored by the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
[1] The prize is awarded to talented classical musicians to give them support for an international career.
[2] The jury includes children of Leonard Bernstein, Zarin Mehta (2015),[3] the conductor Christoph Eschenbach[4] and the Intendant of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Christian Kuhnt.
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