Recent Gold Medal Awards

The Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal is the Society’s most prestigious honour, initiated in 1870 to commemorate the Centenary of Beethoven’s birth.

The most recent recipients are listed below:

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (2010)

Thomas Quasthoff (2009)

Henri Dutilleux (2008)

Daniel Barenboim (2007)

Charles Mackerras (2005)

György Ligeti (2004)

Claudio Abbado (2003)

Joan Sutherland (2002)

Simon Rattle (2000)

Placido Domingo (2000)








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