The Leonor Hirsch Award was set up by Octavio Caraballo and Claudia Caraballo de Quentin in memory of their mother, one of the leading figures in the development of music in Argentina. A woman who was always alert to new tendencies, she was a major promoter of national and international avant garde music, in her efforts to make it available to the people of our country.
The works that may be entered for the Leonor Hirsch Award must include an electro-acoustic music element and a visual element based on digital video. The competition for this upcoming Award closes on July 1 and the task of selecting the winning entries has been given to a Jury comprising Gerald Bennett, Francisco Kröpfl and Nina Colosi.  The winner will be selected from a shortlist of three finalists, whose works will be performed at a concert in October in Buenos Aires.

The Bunge y Born Foundation is undertaking this Project with the Center of Historic Studies and Information Parque de España with the support of the Spanish International Cooperation Agency and the University of Harvard. The project provides funding subsidies for the microfilming of bibliographic and documentary material which are awarded at an annual public competition whose winners are selected by a jury made up of history researchers. Objectives: to promote the safeguard of historical documentation, based on the preservation of documentary information on microfilm, following the international standards of archive quality for the production and storage of the material stored; to offer organizations all over the country the opportunity to microfilm their collections of documentation; and to facilitate and support the task of both professionals and researchers.