2008 Spring Awards

The Spring Awards are very different from the Sacem "Grand Prix" awards given out in December, firstly because they stem from legacies and donations as well as the determination of some of our great elders to honour the most diverse musical genres, and secondly because contemporary music is strongly represented among other extremely varied forms of musical expression.

This event is also a wonderful occasion for us to get together and banish for an instant the isolation of the creator - from which we all suffer to different degrees.

At a time when it is the done thing to call authors' rights into question, sacrificing them so easily on the altar of modernity, our Sacem remains the best defender of the cause of creators and their publishers. This auditorium is the perfect setting for this instant of artistic fraternity.

Laurent Petitgirard
Member of the Institut de France
Chairman of Sacem's Board of Directors
 

• Hervé Dugardin Award - Krystof Maratka
• René Jeanne Award  - Guesch Patti
• Georges Enesco Violin Award - Nicolas Dautricourt
• Raoul Breton Award - Thomas Dutronc
• Award for the best contemporary electro-acoustic creation - Frédéric Kahn
• Francis Lemarque Award - Emily Loizeau
• Claude Arrieu Award - François Narboni
• André-Didier Mauprey Award - Boris Bergman
• Pierre & Germaine Labole Award - Jean-Jacques Werner
• Rolf Marbot Award - "Le manège" - Stanislas & Amaury Salmon
• Award for the best contemporary instrumental creation - Tristan Murail for "Contes cruels"
• Roger Seiller French Group Award - Superbus
• Francis & Mica Salabert Award - Thierry Machuel for "Un étranger avec, sous le bras, un livre de petit format"
• Vincent Scotto Award - "De temps en temps" - Grégory Lemarchal and Davide Esposito
• Francis Baxter Award - Delphine Lemoine
• Sacem Young Composers' Award - Karol Beffa