Léonie Sonnings Musikpris (Léonie Sonning Music Prize)

~ Artist award

Artists

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1959Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский (Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer)PersonMaleRussia1882-06-17
1965Leonard Bernstein (American conductor, composer, pianist)PersonMaleUnited States1918-08-25
1966Birgit Nilsson (soprano)PersonFemaleSweden1918-05-17
1967Witold Lutosławski (Polish composer)PersonMalePoland1913-01-25
1968Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)PersonMaleUnited Kingdom1913-11-22
1969Борис Христов (Boris Christoff, Bulgarian bass)PersonMaleBulgaria1914-05-18
1970Sergiu Celibidache (Romanian conductor)PersonMaleRomania1912-06-28
1971Arthur Rubinstein (pianist)PersonMalePoland1887-01-28
1972Yehudi Menuhin (violinist)PersonMaleUnited Kingdom1916-04-22
1973Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer)PersonMaleRussia1906-09-25
1974Andrés Segovia (guitarist)PersonMaleSpain1893-02-21
1975Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau (baritone)PersonMaleGermany1925-05-28
1976Mogens WöldikePersonMaleDenmark1897-07-05
1977Olivier Messiaen (composer and organist)PersonMaleFrance1908-12-10
1978Jean‐Pierre Rampal (flautist)PersonMaleFrance1922-01-07
1979Dame Janet Baker (mezzo‐soprano and alto)PersonFemaleUnited Kingdom1933-08-21
1980Marie‐Claire Alain (organist)PersonFemaleFrance1926-08-10
1981Мстислав Ростропович (Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist/conductor)PersonMaleRussia1927-03-27
1982Isaac Stern (violinist)PersonMaleUnited States1920-07-21
1983Rafael Kubelík (conductor)PersonMaleCzechia1914-06-29
1984Miles Davis (jazz trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter)PersonMaleUnited States1926-05-26
1985Pierre Boulez (composer and conductor)PersonMaleFrance1925-03-26
1986Святослав Рихтер (Sviatoslav Richter, pianist)PersonMaleRussia1915-03-20
1987Heinz Holliger (Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor)PersonMaleSwitzerland1939-05-21
1988Peter Schreier (German tenor and conductor)PersonMaleGermany1935-07-29
1989Gidon Kremer (violinist)PersonMaleLatvia1947-02-27
1990György Ligeti (Austrian-Hungarian composer)PersonMaleHungary1923-05-28
1991Eric EricsonPersonMaleSweden1918-10-26
1992Sir Georg Solti (conductor)PersonMaleHungary1912-10-21
1993Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)PersonMaleAustria1929-12-06
1994Krystian Zimerman (pianist)PersonMalePoland1956-12-05
1995Юрий Абрамович Башмет (Yuri Bashmet, Russian conductor and violist)PersonMaleRussia1953-01-24
1996Per Nørgård (Danish composer)PersonMaleDenmark1932-07-13
1997András Schiff (pianist)PersonMaleHungary1953-12-21
1998Hildegard Behrens (soprano)PersonFemaleGermany1937-02-09
1999София Асгатовна Губайдулина (Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer)PersonFemaleRussia1931-10-24
2000Michala Petri (recorder player)PersonFemaleDenmark1958-07-07
2001Anne‐Sophie Mutter (violinist)PersonFemaleGermany1963-06-29
2002Alfred Brendel (Austrian pianist)PersonMaleAustria1931-01-05
2003György Kurtág (composer)PersonMaleHungary1926-02-19
2004Keith Jarrett (pianist)PersonMaleUnited States1945-05-08
2005Sir John Eliot Gardiner (John Eliot Gardiner)PersonMaleUnited Kingdom1943-04-20
2006Yo‐Yo Ma (cellist)PersonMaleFrance1955-10-07
2007Lars Ulrik Mortensen (Danish harpsichordist and conductor)PersonMaleDenmark1955-11-09
2008Arvo Pärt (Estonian composer)PersonMaleEstonia1935-09-11
2009Daniel Barenboim (pianist and conductor)PersonMaleArgentina1942-11-15
2010Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo‐soprano)PersonFemaleItaly1966-06-04
2011Kaija Saariaho (Finnish composer)PersonFemaleFrance1952-10-14
2012Jordi Savall (viol player, conductor and composer)PersonMaleSpain1941-08-01
2013Simon Rattle (conductor)PersonMaleUnited Kingdom1955-01-19
2014Martin Fröst (Swedish clarinetist)PersonMaleSweden1970-12-14
2015Thomas Adès (British composer, pianist and conductor)PersonMaleUnited Kingdom1971-03-01
2016Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)PersonMaleSweden1927-07-11
2017Leonidas Kavakos (violinist and conductor)PersonMaleGreece1967-10-30
2018Mariss Jansons (Latvian conductor)PersonMaleLatvia1943-01-14
2019Hans Abrahamsen (Danish composer)PersonMaleDenmark1952-12-23
2020Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)PersonFemaleCanada1971-05-08
2021Unsuk Chin (Korean composer)PersonFemaleSouth Korea1961-07-14
2022Pierre‐Laurent Aimard (pianist)PersonMaleFrance1957-09-09
2023Evelyn Glennie (percussionist)PersonFemaleUnited Kingdom1965-07-19
2024Emmanuel Pahud (flutist)PersonMaleSwitzerland1970-01-27

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