Tyrolean State Prize for Science 2022
The main prize goes to university professor Federico Celestini
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Today, Tuesday, the Tyrolean State Prize for Science 2022 will be awarded in the Innsbruck country house. The prize, endowed with 14,000 euros, goes to Federico CelestiniHead of the Institute for Musicology at the University of Innsbruck.
“With his musicological work, Federico Celestini makes a significant contribution to the national appeal of research at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Innsbruck and shapes the international musicological discourse,” congratulated the Minister for Culture Beate Palfrader the award winner and also quoted from the jury protocol: “The founding of the research center Gustav Mahler Innsbruck and Dobbiaco deserves special mention, with which Innsbruck has become the center of international Mahler research. The high international reputation of the awardee is also reflected in numerous prizes and functions.” The awarding of the prize to Celestini is also an important signal for the recognition of scientific achievements in a so-called “small subject” and for strengthening scientific cooperation in the Euregion viewed.
About Federico Celestini
Federico Celestini studies violin as well as musicology, literature and aesthetics in Rome. Since October 2011 he has been teaching and researching as a university professor at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Innsbruck. Celestini is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and head of the research center Gustav Mahler Innsbruck/Toblach. Until January of this year he was President of the Austrian Society for Musicology and is co-editor of the journal of the International Musicological Society Acta Musicologica. His research interests include the history of music from the 17th to the 21st centuries.
About Milijana Pavlovic
The prize, endowed with 4,000 euros, goes to Milijana Pavlovic, who also works at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Innsbruck. In her research she deals with the connection between music and violence, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Other focal points are gender studies as well as music and literature. Since 2021 she has been deputy head of the Gustav Mahler Research Center Innsbruck and Toblach.
The State Prize for Science has been awarded annually since 1984 in recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of science by the Tyrolean state government at the suggestion of a jury. Last year, the main prize went to Herbert Tilg (internal medicine) and the sponsorship prize to Timon Adolph.