Barbara Hannigan Wins Denmark’s Highest Honor
By Francisco SalazarThe Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan has been awarded the 2020 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Denmark’s highest musical honor.
The soprano will receive the award at a concert on April 23, 2020, in Copenhagen’s DR Concert House. Hannigan will also conduct the Danish National Symphony Orchestra at the event.
The award will also include a monetary award of €100,000 and it has been bestowed on some of the most important musicians throughout the years.
Past recipients include Igor Stravinsky (1959), Leonard Bernstein (1965), Benjamin Britten (1968), Dmitri Shostakovich (1973), Miles Davis (1984), Pierre Boulez (1985), Daniel Barenboim (2009), Cecilia Bartoli (2010), Sir Simon Rattle (2013), and most recently to Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen.
Hannigan is scheduled to perform Abrahamsen’s Song cycle, “Let Me Tell You” at the award gala concert this April. The Canadian soprano is set to go on tour with the Juilliard School and the Toronto Symphony this month.
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