Leonard Bernstein Award

The Leonard Bernstein Award is a German music award endowed with 10,000 euros (since 2026: 20,000 euros). Since 2002, the award has been sponsored by the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.^[1] The prize is awarded to talented classical musicians to give them support for an international career.^[2] The jury includes children of Leonard Bernstein, Zarin Mehta (2015),^[3] the conductor Christoph Eschenbach^[4] and the Intendant of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Christian Kuhnt.^[1]