Echo Music Prize
[3] It depicts half a disc with notes flowing into it from a globe, and the design was the winner of a competition held for that purpose.Campino, singer of German punk band Die Toten Hosen, was the first one to criticize the committee's decision during the ceremony.Other artists returning their awards were German conductors Christian Thielemann and Enoch zu Guttenberg, Russian-German pianist Igor Levit, record producer Klaus Voormann, and the Notos Quartett.Several businesses joined in, with Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus, being one of the most recent high-profile commentators, saying that this would hurt "Germany's international reputation".Selected pop categories Following its first edition as a separate event in Cologne in 1994, the Echo Klassik has been held in the Semperoper in Dresden in 1996 and 2009,[18] in Dortmund in 2003,[19] in Gasteig in Munich from 2004 to 2008 and in 2014.