Starmus Festival
starmus international festival international gathering focused celebrating astronomy space exploration music art natural science founded astronomer amateur musician garik israelian musician astrophysicist brian may festival featured multiple wellknown astronaut astronomer first festival took place june tenerife la palma canary island theme year man space book starmus year man space published covering content festival second festival occurred september tenerife la palma canary island theme beginning making modern cosmos government tenerife announced equivalent publicity value starmus festival ii exceeds million euro festival reached billion people worldwide third festival took place canary island tenerife la palma june july theme beyond horizon tribute stephen hawking festival featured numerous scientist science communicator including stephen hawking brian cox richard dawkins brian may nobel laureate starmus iii held inaugural award ceremony recipient stephen hawking medal science communication award recipient chosen hawking composer han zimmer physicist jim alkhalili science documentary particle fever fourth festival took place trondheim norway june theme life universe festival featured eleven nobel prize laureate many astronomer biologist chemist economist astronaut artist stephen hawking medal award winner neil degrasse tyson science writing jeanmichel jarre music art big bang theory film fifth festival took place zurich switzerland june theme giant leap dedicated first step man moon coinciding th anniversary apollo landing moon stephen hawking medal awarded elon musk buzz aldrin brian eno documentary apollo screened festival first time europe sixth starmus festival took place – september yerevan armenia theme year mar dedicated th anniversary first landing mar opening ceremony concert first day around scientist nobel laureate engineer cosmonaut musician artist took part festival event starmus vi hosted science camp enable child people interested science closely get acquainted latest scientific technological achievement premiering festival documentary film space inside soviet russian cosmonaut alexei leonov minute film based leonovs last interview includes footage soviet history space exploration composition dedicated topic mar exploration performed closing festival neosymphony march mar tigran jager winner stephen hawking medal announced brian may jane goodall diane ackerman nasa communication unit seventh festival took place may bratislava slovakia theme future home planet concert first day featured performance jeanmichel jarre brian may light laser display drone ballet audience snp bridge accompanied musician claude samard adiescar chase slovak philharmonic orchestra slovak philharmonic choir famous expert speaker festival program anthropologist jane goodall nobel prize winner michel mayor emmanuelle charpentier kip thorne former astronaut charlie duke chris hadfield kathryn thornton garrett reisman stephen hawking medal science communication awarded laurie anderson christopher nolan david attenborough sylvia earle two sonic universe concert held magma arte congresos arena tenerife concert recorded produced cd entitled starmus sonic universe rock band nosound recorded concert performance produced cddvd set entitled teide stephen hawking medal science communication official website