(Credit: Philadelphia Orchestra)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been awarded the Kilenyi Bruckner Medal of Honor by the Bruckner Society.

The Philadelphia Orchestra announced the news via social media and said, “Congratulations to Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on being awarded the Kilenyi Bruckner Medal of Honor by the Bruckner Society! Dr. Benjamin Korstvedt, president of the Bruckner Society of America, presented Yannick with the medal amid a successful weekend of performances of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony.”

The Kilenyi Bruckner Medal of Honor by the Bruckner Society is an award by the American sculptor Julio Kilenyi of New York who wanted to give formal expression to his great love for the Bruckner’s music and designed an exclusive Medal of Honor.

Past recipients include George Szell, Leon Botstein, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, and Paul Hindemith.