It is with great sorrow that the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition announces the death of British composer Simon Bainbridge. He won the Award in 1997 for his work Ad Ora Incerta (At the Uncertain Hour), a four-movement song cycle for mezzo soprano, bassoon solo, and orchestra, based on Holocaust-themed poems by Primo Levi. Bainbridge […]
A Polish composer known for sending moral and political messages through his music, died on Sunday at his home in Krakow. He was 86. Krzysztof Penderecki won the Grawemeyer award in 1992 for his symphonic piece, “Adagio for Large Orchestra.” Commissioned by Radio France and the French secretary of state for the 200th anniversary of […]
UofL and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary announced 2020 winners of the $100,000 Grawemeyer Awards Dec. 2-6. Charles Grawemeyer, a UofL graduate and former seminary trustee, launched the awards program in 1984 to underscore the impact a single idea can have on the world. All of the 2020 award recipients will visit Louisville in April to […]
Due to COVID-19 the 2020 Grawemeyer events scheduled for the week of April 13 including the Banquet and Ceremony have been postponed. We hope to hold the events in the fall and once new dates have been decided an announcement will be made. If there are any questions, please email Charlie Leonard at charlie.leonard@louisville.edu
The news has reached us that the 2009 Grawemeyer Award winner, Australian composer, conductor and violist, Brett Dean, is currently hospitalized in Australia and is confirmed to be stricken with coronavirus. The Grawemeyer community sends him and his family all good wishes for a speedy recovery.
With sadness we announce the death of Dr. Paul Brink on January 29, 2020. Dr. Brink helped shape the processes and procedures of the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, working with Charlie Grawemeyer at the inception of the Award. He directed its Committee for several years before his retirement in 2004. He served the School […]
A religious scholar who explained how one of Christianity’s earliest creeds still applies to contemporary life has earned the 2020 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Stephen J. Patterson, a professor of religious and ethical studies at Willamette University, won the award for ideas he set forth in “The Forgotten Creed: Christianity’s Original Struggle against Bigotry, […]
How can American high schools move away from rote learning and testing and help students become critical thinkers ready to take on the challenges of modern life? Educators Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, who spent six years researching the issue at 30 U.S. high schools, have co-won the 2020 Grawemeyer Award in Education for ideas […]
A behavioral geneticist who found that DNA is the primary force shaping our personalities has won the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Robert Plomin, research professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, developed his prize-winning idea based on 45 years of psychological studies in the United […]
The United Nations can tackle global environmental challenges far more effectively by incorporating two overlooked parts of its mandate—human rights and peace—into its efforts. So says Ken Conca, an American University international relations professor who has won the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for the ideas set forth his […]