Encouraging French choirs and promoting this exceptional art form.
Creating the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing in 1989 was one of the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller’s first initiatives. It resulted from the Foundation and the Academy of Fine Arts’ shared desire to encourage French choirs and contribute to the development and promotion of this amazing art form.
The Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing is given to an excellent choir and encourages a development project.
- Amount: 50,000 euros
- Funding: up to 100,000 euros
Since 2016, the award has been attributed alternately to a professional choir, a choir school and a children's choir.
The 2021 laureate
La Maîtrise de Sainte-Anne-d'Auray
The jury for the 2023 edition
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Laurence Equilbey, president of the jury
Choir and orchestra conductor and artistic director of accentus and Insula Orchestra
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Régis Campo
Author-composer and member of the musical composition section of the Académie des beaux-arts
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Henri Chalet
Director and principal choir conductor of the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris
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Thierry Escaich
Composer, organist and member of the musical composition section of the Académie des beaux-arts
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Sarah Koné
Artistic director of the Maîtrise Populaire de l'Opéra-Comique
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Karine Locatelli
Choir and orchestra conductor, teacher at the CNSMD Lyon
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Gisèle Magnan
Musician, founder and artistic director of Les Concerts de Poche
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Coline Serreau
Actor, screenwriter and producer, member of the cinema and audiovisual section of the Académie des beaux-arts
Next session
The call for applications for the 2024 edition is now closed.