Venezuelan conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel acquired the 14th Glenn Gould Prize throughout a ceremony at Carnegie Corridor on Aug. 2. Dudamel is music and creative director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and is ready to develop into music and creative director of the New York Philharmonic in 2026.
Earlier recipients of the Glenn Gould Prize, known as Laureates, embody Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, Leonard Cohen, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Alanis Obomsawin, Philip Glass, Robert Lepage, and Oscar Peterson.
Dudamel, 43, is the primary Laureate who had beforehand been awarded the Glenn Gould Protégé Prize, having been chosen by his mentor and Glenn Gould Prize Laureate Dr. José Antonio Abreu in 2009.
Chosen by the Laureate themselves, the Glenn Gould Protégé Prize is awarded to an excellent younger artist demonstrating distinctive promise with a money award of CDN$25,000. This yr, Dudamel chosen two younger conductors, each additionally from Venezuela, to share the Protégé Prize – Andrés David Ascanio Abreu and Enluis Montes Olivar.
The Canadian Consul Normal to New York, the Hon. Tom Clark, and Glenn Gould Basis government director Brian Levine, offered the awards onstage at Carnegie Corridor throughout a live performance wherein Dudamel performed the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra.
“It’s a enormous honor to obtain this prize,” Dudamel mentioned in accepting his honor. “Years in the past, I used to be a Protégé Prize winner, given to me by my Maestro Abreu. It makes me very proud, particularly to be right here with all these wonderful younger individuals from my nation, Venezuela.”
Nominees for The Glenn Gould Prize are submitted by way of an open, public nomination course of and might come from a broad vary of creative fields. A global jury comprised of artists and professionals from numerous disciplines convenes in Toronto, Canada (the place Gould was born and the place he died) to evaluation the nominees and choose the Laureate. The Glenn Gould Prize Laureate is awarded a money prize of CDN$100,000.
The Glenn Gould Basis, established in 1983, is a registered Canadian charitable group devoted to celebrating excellence within the arts and selling cultural enrichment globally.
Gould, a Canadian classical pianist, received 4 Grammys and three Juno Awards. He’s finest recognized for Bach: The Goldberg Variations, which he recorded in each 1955 and 1981. The sooner recording was voted into the Grammy Corridor of Fame in 1983. That very same yr, his digital re-recording received each a Grammy and a Juno for finest classical album. Sadly, all of those awards have been posthumous: Gould had died in 1982 at age 50. He acquired a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2013.
