The Sibelius Medal is awarded to individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievements as performers or supporters of the music of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It has been awarded by the Sibelius Society of Finland since 1965. The medal was designed by sculptor Eila Hiltunen.
Recipients The Sibelius Medal was awarded to 220 recipients from 1965 to 2015.
Selected recipients:
1965 Urho Kekkonen, No. 1 Aino Sibelius, No. 2 Herbert von Karajan, No. 3 Georg Szell John Barbirolli Birgit Nilsson Eugene Ormandy David Oistrakh Benjamin Britten Oleg Kagan Emil Telmányi Paavo Berglund Joonas Kokkonen 1970 Okko Kamu 1977 Colin Davis 1978 Alexander Gibson 1979 Isaac Stern 1980 Henryk Szeryng Ida Haendel Viktoria Mullova 1981 Leonard Bernstein 1984 Vladimir Ashkenazy 1988 Gennady Rozhdestvensky 1990 Aulis Sallinen 1995 Pekka Kuusisto 1997 Glenda Goss 2005 Osmo Vänskä, chief conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, chief conductor Leif Segerstam, chief conductor 2006 Izumi Tateno, pianist 2007 Jorma Hynninen, opera singer Soile Isokoski, opera singer Reijo Kiilunen, managing director Jukka-Pekka Saraste, chief conductor 2008 the Sibelius Society of Hämeenlinna 2009 the Sibelius Society of Järvenpää 2010 Andrew Barnett (UK), chairman 2011 Tom Krause, opera singer 2014 , pianist 2015 Simon Rattle, conductor Kari Kilpeläinen, docent Hilkka Helminen, museum director Paavo Järvi, conductor Juha Kurkinen, managing director Vesa Sirén, journalist , conductor Kikuo Watanabe, pianist Markku Hartikainen, researcher
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