The Cremona Musica Awards are assigned during the annual Cremona Musica Exhibitions and Festival to personalities and institutions in the music world who have achieved excellence in their field. The awards are presented during the fair by the President of CremonaFiere.

Each year Cremona Musica’s management and scientific committee select the international music stars who have contributed most to spreading great music and the values that have always been linked to musical tradition.

The awards are divided into categories, and cover composition, performance, the projects, the communication and, as of 2018, the guitar making.

The connection with the city of Cremona (a symbol of Italian musical excellence in the world), the context of Cremona Musica (the world’s leading fair of high craftsmanship musical instruments) and the prestige of the awardees, have made the Cremona Musica Awards stand out as one of the most coveted awards in the industry from the very beginning.

Indeed, over the years a number of legendary personalities from the music world have come to Cremona Musica to receive this award, including Alfred Brendel, Shlomo Mintz, Michael Nyman, Krzysztof Penderecki and many others.