class=tt>Thursday December 21, 10:00 am ET ceremony held today at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Space. The top honor of Musician of the Year went to the eminent Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink, recently appointed principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Also recognized were William Bolcom, Composer of the Year; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Instrumentalist of the Year; Barbara Cook, Vocalist of the Year; and Michael M.
Kaiser, Impresario of the Year. In a distinguished 50-year career, Bernard Haitink has been a welcome guest at every major international orchestra. His three-year appointment in (1967-79), Glyndebourne Festival (1978-88), and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden 2004.
Haitink's career may be traced by his hundreds of recordings for Philips with the Concertgebouw, Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, and Boston Symphony. Opera recordings include works by Wagner, Mozart, Britten, Verdi, R. Strauss, Bartok, and Janacek on EMI Classics, and Debussy on Naive.
Most recently he Symphony Orchestra for its own label, LSO LIVE. This is a banner year for American composer William Bolcom. Last month he work on his fourth opera and eighth symphony, which will receive their premieres during his 70th-birthday year in 2008.
A prolific composer of operas, symphonies, hundreds of songs, numerous concertos, chamber and solo works, and cabaret and theater pieces, he is perhaps best known for his monumental Songs of Innocence and Experience, a 1984 setting of William Blake's 46-poem, two-part cycle. The recent Naxos recording conducted by "New music and old, newly viewed," sums up the ear-opening artistry of French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. He has worked with and been praised by such leading composers of our time as Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Gyorgy Ligeti.
He is equally acclaimed in mainstream repertory, notably on CD in Beethoven concertos and Schumann piano music. His growing international golden age. She is famed as the original Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's (1957), for which she won a Tony as best featured actress in a musical, and presentation of Stephen Sondheim's Follies (1985).
Nightclub, cabaret, and and contemporary musical theater, and in 2006 she became the first "popular" Impresario of the Year: Michael M. Kaiser In his five years as president of Washington, D.C.
's Kennedy Center, Michael M. Kaiser has been widely praised for broadening and unifying the Center's constituents, establishing an individual profile to the Center's offerings, and providing increased financial stability to operations. In the words of the Washington Post's Tim Page, "he has transformed the programming, and Washington is a more diverse, fertile, and altogether more interesting place for the arts than it has ever been.
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