Vladimír Godár has been awarded the International Visegrad Prize for 2009, following a proposal from the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic. The prize will be awarded on 7 April, when a concert of his music by Capella Istropolitana takes place in Bratislava under the baton of Peter Breiner.  It includes the Concerto Grosso and a new version of Little Suite for Little David (for violin, cello and chamber orchestra).  
 
The International Visegrad Prize is awarded on an annual basis in appre­ci­a­tion of sup­port ren­dered to and the devel­op­ment of cul­tural cooper­a­tion of the Visegrad Group (or V4) countries (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia).