{"id":40950,"date":"2016-02-13T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/?p=40950"},"modified":"2016-02-13T02:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T00:35:33","slug":"violinist-leonidas-kavakos-wins-leonie-sonning-music-prize-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/news-el\/music-en\/violinist-leonidas-kavakos-wins-leonie-sonning-music-prize-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Violinist Leonidas Kavakos wins L\u00e9onie Sonning Music Prize 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"latest_detail\">\n<p><strong>Founded in 1959, the award is Denmark\u2019s highest musical honour<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"imageplace\">\n<div class=\"mainplace right\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestrad.com\/strad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LeonidasKavakos14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"711\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"main-content\">\n<p>Violinist Leonidas Kavakos has been named the winner of the L\u00e9onie Sonning Music Prize 2017, worth \u20ac100,000. The award is Denmark\u2019s highest musical honour and has been given annually to an internationally recognised composer, instrumentalist, conductor or singer since 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The prize will be awarded to Kavakos at a special concert on 12 January 2017 \u2013 part of a mini-festival in Copenhagen during which the violinist will give a number of performances and masterclasses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Leonidas Kavakos is one of the most expressive violinists you can hear today,\u2019 said Foundation chairman Esben Tange. \u2018He interprets the masterpieces for violin from Bach and Mozart to the classics of the 20th century with authority and with profound musical understanding. His strong personality, virtuosity and the honest, direct nature of his playing mark him out as an artist of rare calibre.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Former L\u00e9onie Sonning prize winners include Yehudi Menuhin (1972), Isaac Stern (1982), Gidon Kremer (1989), Anne-Sophie Mutter (2001), Mstislav Rostropovich (1981), Benjamin Britten (1968), Leonard Bernstein (1965) and Igor Stravinsky (1959).<\/p>\n<p>Kavakos plays the &#8220;Abergavenny&#8221; Stradivarius of 1724 from February 2010. He has sold the &#8220;Falmouth&#8221; Stradivarius of 1692, and a 1782 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (Torino). Kavakos now owns only the Abergavenny and three modern violins, including one by Florian Leonhard (as of September 4, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see him talking about his violin<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lf6U4ydoGiM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:\u00a0thestrad.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1959, the award is Denmark\u2019s highest musical honour Violinist Leonidas Kavakos has been named the winner of the L\u00e9onie Sonning Music Prize 2017, worth \u20ac100,000. 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