Léonie Sonning Music Prize

{{Short description|Danish music award}} {{about|the music prize|the culture prize|Sonning Prize}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox award | name = Léonie Sonning Music Prize | subheader =  | image = | image_size =  | alt = | caption = | awarded_for="internationally recognised composer, musician, conductor or singer" | sponsor = The Léonie Sonning Music Foundation | date =  | location = Copenhagen | country = Denmark | presenter = | host =  | former name = | preshow_host = | acts = | reward = €133,000 | year = 1959 | year2 = | holder_label = | holder =  | most_awards =  | most_nominations = | award1_type = | award1_winner = | award2_type = | award2_winner = | award3_type = | award3_winner = | award4_type = | award4_winner = | award5_type = | award5_winner = | website = {{URL|https://www.sonningmusik.dk/}} | network =  | runtime = | viewership =  | producer = | director = | image2 = | image2size =  | alt2 = | caption2 = | previous = | main = | next = }}

The '''Léonie Sonning Music Prize''', or '''Sonning Award''', which is recognized as Denmark's highest musical honor, is given annually to an international composer or musician.<ref name="Wasserman McLean Gale Research Company 1995 p. 121" /> It was first awarded in 1959 to composer Igor Stravinsky.<ref name="Britten Kildea 2003 p. 315" /> Laureates are now selected by the directors of '''The Léonie Sonning Music Foundation''', which was founded in 1965.<ref name="NOMUS (Organization) 1990" />

The diploma is in Danish, and the prize includes EUR 133,000 (US$146,400) and a monotype by the Danish painter Maja Lisa Engelhardt. Honorees are treated to a concert, typically held in Copenhagen, and are often invited to teach a master class of Danish musicians.

The award is not directly related to the Sonning Prize, which is the Danish award presented by a foundation in memory of Sonning's late husband, {{ill|Carl Johan Sonning|da}}.

== Laureates == {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Laureate ! Country ! class=unsortable |Notes |- | 1959 | {{sortname|Igor|Stravinsky}} | {{flag|United States}} | <ref name="Britten Kildea 2003 p. 315" /> |- | 1965 | {{sortname|Leonard|Bernstein}} | {{flag|United States}} | <ref name="Reed 1965 p. 18" /><ref name="Theatre in Denmark 1966" /> |- | 1966 | {{sortname|Birgit|Nilsson}} | {{flag|Sweden}} | <ref name="Leach American-Scandinavian Foundation 1966 p. 203" /><ref name="Theatre in Denmark 1966 p. 3" /> |- | 1967 | {{sortname|Witold|Lutosławski}} | {{flag|Poland}} | <ref name="Stucky 1981 p. 89" /><ref name="Erhardt 1975 p. 139" /> |- | 1968 | {{sortname|Benjamin|Britten}} | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | <ref name="Avis-Årbogen 1968 p. 93" /> |- | 1969 | {{sortname|Boris|Christoff}} | {{flag|Bulgaria|1967}} | |- | 1970 | {{sortname|Sergiu|Celibidache}} | {{flag|Romania|1965}} | |- | 1971 | {{sortname|Arthur|Rubinstein}} | {{flag|Poland}}/{{flag|United States}} | |- | 1972 | {{sortname|Yehudi|Menuhin}} | {{flag|United States}} | |- | 1973 | {{sortname|Dmitri|Shostakovich}} | {{flag|Soviet Union}} | |- | 1974 | {{sortname|Andrés|Segovia}} | {{flag|Spain|1974}} | |- | 1975 | {{sortname|Dietrich|Fischer-Dieskau}} | {{flag|West Germany}} | |- | 1976 | {{sortname|Mogens|Wöldike}} | {{flag|Denmark}} | |- | 1977 | {{sortname|Olivier|Messiaen}} | {{flag|France}} | |- | 1978 | {{sortname|Jean-Pierre|Rampal}} | {{flag|France}} | |- | 1979 | {{sortname|Janet|Baker}} | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | |- | 1980 | {{sortname|Marie-Claire|Alain}} | {{flag|France}} | |- | 1981 | {{sortname|Mstislav|Rostropovich}} | {{flag|Soviet Union}} | |- | 1982 | {{sortname|Isaac|Stern}} | {{flag|United States}} | |- | 1983 | {{sortname|Rafael|Kubelík}} | {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} | |- | 1984 | {{sortname|Miles|Davis}} | {{flag|United States}} | |- | 1985 | {{sortname|Pierre|Boulez}} | {{flag|France}} | |- | 1986 | {{sortname|Sviatoslav|Richter}} | {{flag|Soviet Union}} | |- | 1987 | {{sortname|Heinz|Holliger}} | {{flag|Switzerland}} | |- | 1988 | {{sortname|Peter|Schreier}} | {{flag|East Germany}} | <ref name="NOMUS (Organization) 1990" /> |- | 1989 | {{sortname|Gidon|Kremer}} | {{flag|Soviet Union}} | |- | 1990 | {{sortname|György|Ligeti}} | {{flag|Hungary}}/{{flag|Austria}} | |- | 1991 | {{sortname|Eric|Ericson}} | {{flag|Sweden}} | |- | 1992 | {{sortname|Georg|Solti}} | {{flag|Hungary}}/{{flag|United Kingdom}} | |- | 1993 | {{sortname|Nikolaus|Harnoncourt}} | {{flag|Austria}} | |- | 1994 | {{sortname|Krystian|Zimerman}} | {{flag|Poland}} | |- | 1995 | {{sortname|Yuri|Bashmet}} | {{flag|Russia}} | |- | 1996 | {{sortname|Per|Nørgård}} | {{flag|Denmark}} | |- | 1997 | {{sortname|Andras|Schiff}} | {{flag|Hungary}}/{{flag|United Kingdom}} | |- | 1998 | {{sortname|Hildegard|Behrens}} | {{flag|Germany}} | |- | 1999 | {{sortname|Sofia|Gubaidulina}} | {{flag|Russia}} | |- | 2000 | {{sortname|Michala|Petri}} | {{flag|Denmark}} | |- | 2001 | {{sortname|Anne-Sophie|Mutter}} | {{flag|Germany}} | |- | 2002 | {{sortname|Alfred|Brendel}} | {{flag|Austria}} | |- | 2003 | {{sortname|György|Kurtág}} | {{flag|Hungary}} | |- | 2004 | {{sortname|Keith|Jarrett}} | {{flag|United States}} | |- | 2005 | {{sortname|John Eliot|Gardiner}} | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | |- | 2006 | {{sortname|Yo-Yo|Ma}} | {{flag|United States}} | |- | 2007 | {{sortname|Lars Ulrik|Mortensen}} | {{flag|Denmark}} | |- | 2008 | {{sortname|Arvo|Pärt}} | {{flag|Estonia}} | |- | 2009 | {{sortname|Daniel|Barenboim}} | {{flag|Argentina}} | |- | 2010 | {{sortname|Cecilia|Bartoli}} | {{flag|Italy}} | |- | 2011 | {{sortname|Kaija|Saariaho}} | {{flag|Finland}} | |- | 2012 | {{sortname|Jordi|Savall}} | {{flag|Spain}} | |- | 2013 | {{sortname|Simon|Rattle}} | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | |- | 2014 | {{sortname|Martin|Fröst}} | {{flag|Sweden}} | |- | 2015 | {{sortname|Thomas|Adès}} | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | |- | 2016 | {{sortname|Herbert|Blomstedt}} | {{flag|Sweden}} | |- | 2017 | {{sortname|Leonidas|Kavakos}} | {{flag|Greece}} | <ref name="The Strad" /> |- | 2018 | {{sortname|Mariss|Jansons}} | {{flag|Latvia}} | <ref name="theviolinchannel 2017" /> |- | 2019 | {{sortname|Hans|Abrahamsen}} | {{flag|Denmark}} | <ref name="Pedersen 2018" /> |- | 2020 | {{sortname|Barbara|Hannigan}} | {{flag|Canada}} | <ref name="Vincent" /> |- | 2021 | {{sortname|Unsuk|Chin}} | {{flag|South Korea}} | <ref>{{cite news |last=Seung-hyun |first=Song |date=30 January 2020 |title=Chin Un-suk wins Leonie Sonning Music Prize 2021 |url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200130000696 |work=The Korea Herald |location=Seoul |access-date=30 January 2020}}</ref> |- | 2022 | {{sortname|Pierre-Laurent|Aimard}} | {{flag|France}} | <ref name="Pizzicato 2022">{{cite web | title=Pierre-Laurent Aimard receives the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2022 | website=Pizzicato | date=26 January 2022 | url=https://www.pizzicato.lu/pierre-laurent-aimard-receives-the-leonie-sonning-music-prize-2022/ | language=it | access-date=29 May 2022}}</ref> |- | 2023 | {{sortname|Evelyn|Glennie}} | {{flag|Scotland}} | <ref name="Gramophone 2022">{{cite web | title=Evelyn Glennie receives Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2023 | website=Gramophone | date=30 November 2022 | url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/article/evelyn-glennie-receives-leonie-sonning-music-prize-2023 | access-date=10 December 2022}}</ref> |- | 2024 | {{sortname|Emmanuel|Pahud}} | {{flag|Switzerland}} | <ref name="Pizzicato 2023">{{cite web | title=Flutist Emmanuel Pahud will receive the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2024 | website=Pizzicato | date=20 September 2023 | url=https://www.pizzicato.lu/flutist-emmanuel-pahud-will-receive-the-leonie-sonning-music-prize-2024/ | language=en | access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref> |- | 2025 | Danish String Quartet | {{flag|Denmark}} |<ref name="z191">{{cite web | title=Danish String Quartet Wins 2025 Léonie Sonning Music Prize | website=The Violin Channel | date=8 October 2024 | url=https://theviolinchannel.com/leonie-sonning-music-prize-names-2025-winner/ | access-date=26 March 2025}}</ref> |- | 2026 | Kirill Petrenko | {{flag|Austria}} |<ref name="i898">{{cite web | title=Kirill Petrenko Receives Denmark's Léonie Sonning Music Prize for 2026 | website=The Violin Channel | date=25 August 2025 | url=https://theviolinchannel.com/kirill-petrenko-receives-leonie-sonning-music-prize-for-2026/ | access-date=26 January 2026}}</ref> |}

== References == <references> <ref name="Avis-Årbogen 1968 p. 93">{{cite book | title = Avis-Årbogen | publisher = J.H. Schultz | issue = v. 45 | year = 1968 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EQEiAQAAMAAJ | language = da | access-date = 29 April 2018 | page = 93 }}</ref> <ref name="Britten Kildea 2003 p. 315">{{cite book | last = Britten | first = B. | last2 = Kildea | first2 = P.F. | title = On Music | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-0-19-816714-3 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UhGmm8wOjcQC&pg=PA315 | access-date = 29 April 2018 | page = 315 }}</ref> <ref name="Erhardt 1975 p. 139">{{cite book | last = Erhardt | first = L. | title = Music in Poland | publisher = Interpress Publishers | year = 1975 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5DOsAAAAIAAJ | access-date = 29 April 2018 | page = 139 | quote = The year 1967 again put Witold Lutoslawski in the news when he received the coveted Leonie Sonning Award "in recognition and admiration of his masterly compositional virtuosity which is a source of inspiration to the musical life of our times". }}</ref> <ref name="Leach American-Scandinavian Foundation 1966 p. 203">{{cite book | last = Leach | first = H.G. | author2 = American-Scandinavian Foundation | title = The American-Scandinavian Review | publisher = American-Scandinavian Foundation. | issue = v. 54-55 | year = 1966 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nMsgAAAAMAAJ | access-date = 29 April 2018 | page = 203 | quote = The Leonie Sonning Prize for 1966 was recently awarded the Swedish singer Birgit Nilsson. The amount of the Prize is 50,000 Danish kroner. The Leonie Sonning Prize was awarded for the first time in 1959, with Igor Stravinsky being the recipient. The 1965 winner was conductor Leonard Bernstein. }}</ref> <ref name="NOMUS (Organization) 1990">{{cite book | author = NOMUS (Organization) | title = Nordic Sounds | publisher = NOMUS | year = 1990 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VvFK7gOHU7sC | access-date = 29 April 2018 | page = 9 | quote = Schreier marked the twenty-fifth presentation of the prize, but actually more than 25 years of its existence inasmuch as an extraordinary award was made to Igor Stravinsky in 1959, before the Sonning Trust had been formally established. This happened in 1965, ... Since 1965 the prize has been presented every year on a date as near as possible to May 30, which was the wedding anniversary of Léonie Sonning and her husband Carl JohanSonning. The statutes stipulate that the ... }}</ref> <ref name="Pedersen 2018">{{cite web | last = Pedersen | first = Karen Lerbech | title = Dansk kunstner modtager kæmpepris: Jeg er beæret og rystet i min grundvold! | website = DR | date = 30 January 2018 | url = https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/klassisk/dansk-kunstner-modtager-kaempepris-jeg-er-beaeret-og-rystet-i-min-grundvold | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180131200853/https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/klassisk/dansk-kunstner-modtager-kaempepris-jeg-er-beaeret-og-rystet-i-min-grundvold | archive-date = 31 January 2018 | url-status = live | language = da | access-date = 29 April 2018 }}</ref> <ref name="Reed 1965 p. 18">{{cite book | last = Reed | first = P.H. | title = The American Record Guide | publisher = Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation | issue = v. 32 | year = 1965 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=s2IfAAAAMAAJ | access-date = 29 April 2018 | page = 18 | quote = On the evening of May 17th Leonard Bernstein was awarded the Leonie Sonning Music Prize in recognition of his efforts on behalf of Carl Nielsen. The ceremony took place during a concert I attended at the 18th-century Odd Fellow Palace in Copenhagen, in whose wonderful old concert hall Nielsen himself had conducted many a premiere of his works. It had been agreed that, in coming to Copenhagen to accept the prize, ... }}</ref> <ref name="Stucky 1981 p. 89">{{cite book | last = Stucky | first = S. | title = Lutoslawski and His Music | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1981 | isbn = 978-0-521-22799-5 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Kts8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA89 | access-date = 29 April 2018 | page = 89 | quote = In 1967 he received the Gottfried von Herder Prize from the University of Vienna, and in August of that year he was given the Leonie Sonning Prize in Copenhagen 'in recognition and admiration of his mastery as a composer, which is a source of inspiration to the musical life of our age'. The award was presented at an all- Lutoslawski concert as part of the Royal Danish Festival of Music and Ballet celebrating the 800th anniversary of Copenhagen's founding. }}</ref> <ref name="The Strad">{{cite news | last = | first = | date = 27 January 2016 | title = Violinist Leonidas Kavakos wins Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2017 | url = https://www.thestrad.com/violinist-leonidas-kavakos-wins-leonie-sonning-music-prize-2017/6199.article | work = The Strad | location = London | access-date = 22 November 2017 }}</ref> <ref name="Theatre in Denmark 1966">{{cite book | title = Theatre in Denmark | publisher = Danish Centre of the I.T.I. | issue = v. 1-13 | year = 1966 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Lnk4AAAAIAAJ | access-date = 29 April 2018 | quote = ... the Royal Danish Ballet and Music Festival at the end of May, and besides the Royal Theatre's production of his opera "Maskerade", which had not been performed for 15 years, the main event was a concert, including Carl Nielsen's 3rd Symphony, performed by the Royal Orchester, conducted for the first time by Leonard Bernstein and recorded during his stay in Copenhagen. The formal object of Mr. Bernstein's visit to Copenhagen was to receive the Leonie Sonning Musical Prize. }}</ref> <ref name="Theatre in Denmark 1966 p. 3">{{cite book | title = Theatre in Denmark | publisher = Danish Centre of the I.T.I. | issue = nos. 2-10 | year = 1966 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1w8iAQAAMAAJ | access-date = 29 April 2018 | page = 3 | quote = This year's Leonie Sonning Music Prize was given to Birgit Nilsson, who visited The Royal Theatre on May 17th, 1966, for a guest performance in "Fidelio". Birgit Nilsson honoured yong Danish singers by donating her salary for this performance to be used as a scholarship for two young female singers. }}</ref> <ref name="theviolinchannel 2017">{{cite web | title = Conductor Mariss Jansons Awarded Prestigious €100,000 Danish Bursary | website = The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009. | date = 21 April 2017 | url = https://theviolinchannel.com/conductor-mariss-jansons-awarded-prestigious-100000-danish-bursary/ | access-date = 29 April 2018 }}</ref> <ref name="Wasserman McLean Gale Research Company 1995 p. 121">{{cite book | last = Wasserman | first = P. | last2 = McLean | first2 = J.W. | author3 = Gale Research Company | title = Awards, Honors, and Prizes | publisher = Gale Research Company | issue = v. 2 | year = 1995 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wmw7AQAAIAAJ | access-date = 29 April 2018 | page = 121 }}</ref> <ref name="Vincent">{{cite web |last=Vincent |first=Michael |date=1 February 2019 |title=Barbara Hannigan Awarded Denmark's Highest Classical Music Honour |url=https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2019/02/01/scoop-barbara-hannigan-awarded-denmarks-highest-classical-music-honour/ |work=ludwig van |location=Toronto |publisher= |access-date=3 February 2019 }}</ref> </references>

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