The Glenn Gould Foundation is pleased to recognize this recital by Caroline Haffner as a Year of Glenn Gould Event.
Between September 25, 2007 and September 24, 2008, the events are taking place around the world for this comemorative year which marks the 75th anniversary of Glenn Gould's birth, the 50th anniversary of his historic and galvanizing Russian tour and the 25th anniversary of his tragically early death.
The Glenn Gould Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable organization based in Toronto. It was established in 1983 by friends, colleagues and admirers of the celebrated Canadian pianist in the wake of his death at age 50.
The Foundation was established with the mission to extend awareness of Gould as an extraordinary musician and communicator, and to advance his innovative ideas into the future.
The Foundation created The Glenn Gould Prize as a lifetime achievement award in the arts and communications and the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize. The Glenn Gould Prize has become an international symbol of excellence in the arts and communications.
Past Laureates have included Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Yo-Yo Ma, Oscar Peterson, Pierre Boulez, Toru Takemitsu and Sir André Previn.
In February 2008, the Glenn Gould Foundation assembled an extraordinary international jury from the worlds of music, film, broadcasting, arts administration, theatre and business. It included the late Anthony Minghella, the British Film Director.
The jury met in Toronto to select the Laureat of the 2008 Glenn Gould Prize. The 2008 Laureat selected by this exception jury is Dr José Antonio Abreu, creator of Venezuela's "El Sistema", the visionary system of children's and youth orchestras that for 30 years has raised hundreds of thousands of children from poverty, despair, gang violence and drugs through the life-transforming power of music. El Sistema provided the musical education of Gustavo Dudamel, the 27 year old conducting sensation who is about to assume the post of Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and who continues as Director of Venezuela's amazing Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra, the pinnacle of that country's youth orchestra system.
The Glenn Gould Prize will be presented to Dr Abreu at a gala concert in Toronto in 2009. This event will mark the beginning of a transition for the Glenn Gould Foundation as it moves to transform itself into a major world, cultural institution and the Glenn Gould Prize into the world's pre-eminent arts' award - a veritable Nobel Prize of the Arts.
Brian Levine, Managing Director
The Glenn Gould Foundation,Canada
www.glenngould.ca