2025 Grawemeyer Award in Music
The 2025 Grawemeyer Award in music: Join us April 9th and 10th
For creating Invisible Threads, a work that changes how music is usually experienced by employing a spatially shifting ensemble of 12 musicians and encouraging its audience to roam the performance space throughout its 70 minutes, London-based composer Christian Mason will receive the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Join us for two public events:
- The composition seminar will be Wednesday, April 9 at 4 p.m.
- Mason’s official Grawemeyer presentation in Bird Hall: Thursday, April 10 at 3 p.m
About the Grawemeyer Awards
Each year the Grawemeyer Awards honor the power of creative ideas to improve our culture via music composition, education,religion, psychology, and world order. Business executive and family man H. Charles Grawemeyer established the awards in 1984 at the University of Louisville in collaboration with Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Academics and community members choose among nominees from around the world to ensure that each winning idea is relevant to society at large. The University of Louisville announces the winners in December and presents the awards at a ceremony the following April. Each award winner receives $100,000, which they may use, if they choose, to develop and accelerate the spread of their powerful ideas. Learn more.