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Philip Glass Awarded 2015 Glenn Gould Prize

Matthew Sedlar on April 15, 2015
Philip Glass. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Philip Glass. Photo courtesy of the artist.

From CBC News:

American composer and pianist Philip Glass has been named the eleventh recipient of The Glenn Gould Prize at a ceremony Tuesday morning at Toronto's Koerner Hall.

Sometimes referred to as the "Nobel prize of the arts," the award is presented biennially to "an individual for a unique lifetime contribution that has enriched the human condition through the arts," according to the Glenn Gould Foundation.

The 78-year-old composer joins a prestigious list of previous winners that includes Leonard Cohen, Pierre Boulez, and Yo-Yo Ma.

A frequent visitor to the Bay Area, including at performances of his operas both in San Francisco and Berkeley, Glass appeared on a San Francisco Performances program last month with The Études, and currently he is on an extensive tour with San Francisco's Kronos Quartet.

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Matthew Sedlar oversees edits and posts content to SFCV and social media. He has worked on the copy desks of several publications including the Orange County Register and the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report. He also served as deputy editor of Congressional Quarterly's Healthbeat and a music writer for the blog DCist. In his spare time, he writes about the intersection of statistics and various nerdy topics for Stats for Geeks.