Philip Venables has been awarded one of the Rome Prizes.
From the Press Release of the Kulturstiftung der Länder:
Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer has announced the winners of the Rome Prize for a ten-month stay starting in September 2026 at the federally funded German Academy in Rome, Villa Massimo.
With these stays in Italy, the federal government enables exceptionally talented and highly qualified artists from Germany to further develop their artistic skills. The scholarships are financed entirely from the federal budget for culture and media.
The residents for 2026/27 are:
Kollektiv ‘Planbude’: Lisa Marie Zander, Margit Czenki, Christoph Schäfer, and Dr. Renée Tribble, Hamburg (architecture)
Olaf Grawert, Berlin (architecture)
Thea Djordjadze, Berlin (visual arts)
Thomas Florschuetz, Berlin (visual arts)
Antje Rávik Strubel, Potsdam (literature)
Abbas Khider, Berlin (literature)
Moritz von Oswald, Berlin (music)
Philip Venables, Berlin (music)
Philip will spend the year in Rome writing a major new opera for the 2027/28 season.