Venezuelan conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel received the 14th Glenn Gould Award during a ceremony at Carnegie Hall on August 2. Dudamel is music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and is set to become music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic in 2026.
Past recipients of the Glenn Gould Prize, called Laureates, include Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, Leonard Cohen, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Alanis Obomsawin, Philip Glass, Robert Lepage, and Oscar Peterson.
Dudamel, 43, is the first recipient of the Glenn Gould Protégé Prize, having been selected by his mentor and recipient of the Glenn Gould Prize Dr. José Antonio Abreu in 2009.
Selected by the honorees themselves, the Glenn Gould Protégé Award is presented to an outstanding young artist who shows outstanding promise with a cash prize of CDN$25,000. This year, Dudamel chose two young conductors, both also from Venezuela, to share the Protégé award – Andrés David Ascanio Abreu and Enluis Montes Olivar.
Canada's Consul General in New York, Hon. Tom Clark and Glenn Gould Foundation Executive Director Brian Levine presented the awards on stage at Carnegie Hall during a concert in which Dudamel conducted the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra.
“It's a huge honor to receive this award,” said Dudamel in accepting his honor. “Years ago, I was the winner of the Protégé award, given to me by my Maestro Abreu. It makes me very proud, especially to be here with all these amazing young people from my country, Venezuela.”
Nominees for the Glenn Gould Prize are submitted through an open, public nomination process and may come from a wide range of artistic fields. An international jury of artists and professionals from various disciplines convenes in Toronto, Canada (where Gould was born and where he died) to review the nominees and select the awardee. The Glenn Gould Prize laureate is awarded a cash prize of $100,000 CDN.
The Glenn Gould Foundation, established in 1983, is a registered Canadian charity dedicated to celebrating excellence in the arts and promoting cultural enrichment worldwide.
Gould, a Canadian classical pianist, has won four Grammy Awards and three Juno Awards. He is best known for Bach: The Goldberg Variations, which he recorded in both 1955 and 1981. The former recording was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1983. That same year, his digital re-recording won both a Grammy and a Juno for Best Classical album. Unfortunately, all of these awards were posthumous: Gould had died in 1982 at the age of 50. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2013.
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