REMA Award

The Seviqc Brežice Festival is a member of the European Early Music Network (REMA). In 2015 the Network started awarding its Rema Award in order to strengthen the Early Music scene in Europe. Each year two such awards will be given, one to an institution and one to an artist. The 2015 award winners are the Swiss Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the English Hilliard Ensemble.
On proposal of the Seviqc Brežice Festival, the statuette for the award was designed by the brilliant sculptor Mirsad Begić. He described his work as: »Its basic form in the shape of a lute depicts the Eros of life. The instrument’s body is at the same time a representation of the vocal cords with the uvula, while the small abstract figure peering from the inside illustrates a muezzin and guttural singing. The lute’s neck is thin and elongated and ends with the head of a bull over a female torso as a symbol of Europe.«