Daniel Barenboim
| 2009 | Classical Music |
| Diamond Konex Award | |
| 2009 | Classical Music |
| Platinum Konex | |
| 2009 | Classical Music |
| Merit Diploma | |
| 1999 | Classical Music |
| Special Mention | |
| 1989 | Classical Music |
| Merit Diploma |
Daniel Barenboim
Diamond Konex Award 2009: Classical Music
Konex Award 1999: Classical Music / Special Mention
Konex Award 1989: Pianist
He was born on 15/11/1942 in Buenos Aires. Diamond Konex Award 2009. Special Mention Konex Award 1999 and Konex Award 1989. Pianist and Orchestra Conductor. He took piano lessons at the age of 5 with her mother, Aída Schuster, and continued with his father, Enrique Barenboim. He gave his first official concert in Buenos Aires on 19/08/1950. In 1952 he did it in Viena and Rome. He studied Orchesta Conduction with Igor Markevich and Composition and Harmony with Nadia Boulanger. In 1957 he had his debut in New York under the conduction of Leopold Stokowski. He conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1967 and the Berlin Philharmonic in 1969.
He conducted the Israel Festival (1971-73), he was Musical Director of the Paris Orchesta (1975-89) and of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1991-2006), which named him in 2006 Lifetime Honorary Conductor. He is General Musical Director of the Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper) since 1991. Till 2002 he was also its Artistic Director. In 2000 the Berlin State Orchestra (Staatskapelle) named him Lifetime Conductor. He founded in 1999 with Edward Said the Western-Eastern Divan, an orchestra integrated with young people of jewish an arab origin which promotes the dialogue between cultures of the Middle East. Senior Invited Conductor of the Scala of Milan. Apart from the classical-romantic repertoire, he focuses on contemporary music. His works includes tens of piano concerts. He interpreted chamber music with his passed out wife Jacqueline du Pré and, among others, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Itzhak Perlman, Gregor Piatigorsky, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma y Pinchas Zukerman. He wrote My life in music and, with Edward Said, Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society.
He was granted Echo Klassik Prize from the Deutsche Phono-Akademie (2000), Prince of Asturias Prize (2002), Grammy for Wagner’s Tannhäuser with Berlín Staatskapelle (2003), Wilhelm Furtwängler (2003), Peace Prize 2005 from the United Nations Association in Spain (2006), Siemens Musical Foundation (2006), Robert Schumann (2006), to mutual Understanding and Tolerance (Berlin, 2006) and Imperial from the Imperial House of Japan (2007). He was decorated with the Great Cross of Merit with Star from the Federal Republic of Germany (2002) and with the Order of the Legion of Honor of France (2007). He is Doctor Honoris Causa of Oxford University (2007). He was declared Distinguished Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires (2008). He received a Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society (2008).
