The POLAR MUSIC PRIZE was presented on Monday 22 May for the fifteenth year in succession.
The laureates were the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev and the British rock group Led Zeppelin.
Each laureate received prize money to the amount of one million Swedish kronor.
His Majesty the King of Sweden awarded the prizes during a nationally televised (TV4) ceremony,
which took place at the Stockholm Concert Hall. The subsequent banquet and after-party were held
at the Grand Hotel’s Winter Garden and Berns respectively.
