Leonard Bernstein Award
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. The prize is awarded to talented classical musicians to give them support for an international career. The jury includes children of Leonard Bernstein, Zarin Mehta (2015), the conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the Intendant of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Christian Kuhnt.