Steven Warwick (Heatsick) receives the Villa - Aurora Scholarship
the Berlin Music Boards in 2015
Together with the Music Board Berlin gives the Villa Aurora in this year for the second time, a pop-scholarship, which is awarded to an outstanding artist of the Berlin music scene. The choice of the jury fell to Steven Warwick aka Heatsick. Congratulations to Steven Warwick and look forward to his stay in the Villa Aurora in 2015.
Steven Warwick is a Berlin based musician, who became famous with his solo project under the name Heatsick and as a member of the duo Birds of Delay. Heat Sick among other uses vocals, keyboards and percussion to create a sound whose conceptual brokenness equally playful as is demanding.
Warwick was chosen by a jury made up of renowned connoisseurs and experts of international pop culture: Jens Balzer (Berliner Zeitung), Christoph Gurk (Head of Music HAU), Anne Haffmans (Music and labelmanager Domino Records), Andre Jürgens (Berghain Berlin) and the music leader Katja Lucker. The jury is pleased with a good range, but it reflects Berlin's pop culture scene in its international diversity and quality resist. Especially for his electronic music Berlin is known worldwide and the jury is proud to Steven Warwick - the door to LA's music scene to open HEATSICK.
The Villa Aurora , the former home of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger in Los Angeles, is an artists' residence and a place of international cultural encounters. To commemorate the time of the exile she keeps the memory of the artists and intellectuals who found refuge in California from persecution by the Nazi regime and had a significant impact on the cultural life of the U.S. west coast. The association is headquartered in Berlin promotes German-American cultural exchange in the fields of film, composition, visual arts, literature and performance. He also annually awards the Feuchtwanger Fellowship.
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