The price Polar Music (or price Stikkan Andersson Music Whodunnit) is given each year by the royal Académie of music of Sweden in order to reward any individual, groups or institution having contributed favorably to the music.

This price was founded in 1989, following a donation of Stig Anderson (1931-1997), former manager of the group ABBA and founder of the musical label Polar Music.

The ceremony of handing-over of this distinction proceeds with Stockholm in May and the prizes winner receive their price of the SM hand the king Charles XVI Gustave of Sweden. Each member elect receives the sum of a million Swedish crowns, that is to say approximately 109.000 euros.

Prizes winner

2007 - Sony Rollins and Steve Reich

2006 - Led Zeppelin and Valery Gergiev

2005 - Gilberto Gil and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

2004 - B.B. King and György Ligeti

2003 - Keith Jarrett

2002 - Sofia Gubaidulina and Miriam Makeba

2001 - Burt Bacharach, Robert Moog and Karlheinz Stockhausen

2000 - Bob Dylan and Isaac Stern

1999 - Stevie Wonder and Iannis Xenakis

1998 - Ray Charles and Ravi Shankar

1997 - Eric Ericsson and Bruce Springsteen

1996 - Pierre Boulez and Joni Mitchell

1995 - Sir Elton John and Mstislav Rostropovitch

1994 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Quincy Jones

1993 - Dizzy Gillespie and Witold Lutosławski

1992 - Sir Paul McCartney and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania)

External bond

• www.polarmusicprize.se Official site.