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Elton John is about so as to add yet another honor in a profession filled with them. The pop and rock icon will obtain the 2025 Glenn Gould Prize, awarded biennially to honor the legacy of pianist Glenn Gould. The one prior rock-adjacent winner was the late Leonard Cohen, who obtained the award in 2011. Different winners embrace Yo-Yo Ma, Philip Glass, and Oscar Peterson. John is the fifteenth individual to be honored with the prize.
“After spending decades admiring the virtuosity of Glenn Gould’s work, I am awestruck and honored to receive this award,” John stated in a press release. Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell, this yr’s jury chair for the Glenn Gould Prize, issued her personal assertion: “In selecting our Laureate, Elton John, we chose to honor someone who has great artistic accomplishments, but whose life and whose art has been translated into something much greater than just performance or the consumption of music and things they’ve created.”
Glenn Gould Prize laureates obtain a CDN$100,000 money award. Additionally they choose a youthful artist to obtain the CDN$25,000 Glenn Gould Protégé Prize. John’s decide for the Protégé Prize has but to be revealed.
A few of John’s different lifetime achievement awards embrace the Kennedy Middle Honors, the Gershwin Prize for Common Tune, a Grammy Legend Award, the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Corridor of Fame, and membership within the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
Gould, a Toronto native, was probably the most celebrated classical pianists of the twentieth century, particularly acclaimed for his interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s piano compositions. John is likely one of the most profitable widespread musicians of all time, with a decades-spanning run of hits and high-grossing excursions, in addition to a protracted legacy of philanthropic work.
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