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Meeting of the jury for the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts
44 nominations encompassing 20 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the first of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 43rd year.
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The Jury responsible for conferring the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts will meet this coming 25th and 26th April in Oviedo. This is the first of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 43rd year. A total of 44 candidatures encompassing 20 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Reconquista Hotel.
As stated in the Foundation’s Regulations, the Princess of Asturias Awards are aimed at rewarding “the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions”. In keeping with these principles, the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts is to be granted to “the work of fostering and advancing the art of film-making, theatre, dance, music, photography, painting, sculpture, architecture or any other form of artistic expression.”
Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of fifty thousand euros.
The members of the Jury will hold an initial meeting with the media at 11:00am on Tuesday 25th in the hotel’s “Salón de Consejos” reception room (first floor) immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am, after the group photograph. Each jury shall have a chairperson and an acting secretary. Both shall be appointed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation and shall have voice and vote.
The Jury’s decision will be announced at 12:00 noon (GMT+2:00) on Wednesday 26th, in the “Salón Covadonga” reception room in the same hotel (ground floor), following which the members of the Jury will be available for interview.
Composition of the Jury
The Jury will be made up of the following persons:
- Miguel Zugaza Miranda (chair)
- Aarón Zapico Braña (acting secretary)
- Claude Bussac
- María de Corral López-Dóriga
- Carlos Fitz-James Stuart Martínez de Irujo, Duke of Alba
- Josep Maria Flotats i Picas
- Dionisio González Romero
- Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
- Sergio Gutiérrez Sánchez
- Maribel López Zambrana
- Antonio Lucas Herrero
- Joan Matabosch Grifoll
- Helena Pimenta Hernández
- Sandra Rotondo Urcola
- Martha Thorne
- Rosa Torres-Pardo
- Patricia Urquiola Hidalgo
- Carlos Urroz Arancibia
- Tadanori Yamaguchi
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