122 In January 2024, Argerich was awarded the 13th Obayashi Prize from the Obayashi Foundation in recognition of her achievements in contributing to society centered on art, her activities for sending out art and culture from Oita to the world, and contributing to the regional vitalization, which has made an epochal inspiration for the future vision of a city. Her CDs have been released by numerous labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, RCA, Sony, Philips, and Teldec, and she has received the Grammy Awards, Le Monde de la Musique CHOC Award, Grammophon Artist of the Year Awards, and German Record Critics’ Annual Award, to name just a few. Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim is one of today’s most outstanding artists. As a pianist and conductor, he has been active for decades in major cities across Europe and all around the world; as the initiator of several highly acclaimed projects, he has contributed decisively to international music life. Daniel Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires in 1942. He received his first piano lessons at age five and was first taught by his mother. Later, he studied under his father, who would remain his only piano teacher. He gave his first public concert when he was seven. In 1952, he moved with his parents to Israel. At age eleven, Daniel Barenboim took part in conducting classes in Salzburg under Igor Markevitch. In 1955 and 1956, he studied harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. At age ten, Daniel Barenboim gave his international debut performance as a solo pianist in Vienna and Rome; Paris, London, and New York followed. Since then, he has regularly toured Europe and the United States, as well as South America, Australia, and the Far East. Ever since his conducting debut in 1967 in London with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim has been in great demand with leading orchestras around the world. Between 1975 and 1989, he was chief conductor of the Orchestre de Paris. His debut as an opera conductor was at the Edinburgh Festival in 1973. Over a period of eighteen years, from 1981 until 1999, he was active as conductor of the Bayreuth Festival. From 1991 until 2006, Daniel Barenboim was Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1992, he became General Music Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and remained in this position until the end of January 2023. In 2000, the Staatskapelle Berlin voted him chief-conductor-forlife. Both in the opera as well as on the concert stage, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin have acquired a large repertoire, especially great work cycles. In 1999, Daniel Barenboim founded together with the Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said the WestEastern Divan Workshop, which brings together young musicians from Israel and the Arab countries to Jury Members
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