“British composer Brian Ferneyhough was awarded the 2007 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize last week in Munich, in a ceremony at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He receives Eu 200,000 and the satisfaction of joining an elite group of laureates, including Benjamin Britten, Olivier Messiaen, Mstislav Rostropovich, Witold LutosÅ‚awski, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti, Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini, Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, Daniel Barenboim and others.”