Lord Yehudi Menuhin
Second Laureate of the Glenn Gould Prize
Violin virtuoso supporting musically gifted children in a uniquely nurturing school.
Biography
Yehudi Menuhin (born New York, New York, 1916; died Berlin, Germany, 1999) was not only a violinist of legendary status but also a conductor, teacher, editor, lecturer, and humanitarian.
His many diverse interests apart from music and his love of the music of many non-Western cultures marked him as a true citizen of the world. As such he won numerous international awards including the Nehru Award for International Understanding.
In 1962 he founded the Menuhin School of Music, a boarding school for musically gifted children at Stoke d’Abernon near London, where he had lived since 1959 and on whose grounds he was buried on March 19,1999.
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Second Glenn Gould Prize Gala
The Glenn Gould Prize Celebration Dinner to honour Sir Yehudi Menuhin, O.M., K.B.E. was held November 20, 1990 at the Sun Life Centre in Toronto, Canada. After the departure of the Vice-Regal Party at the end of the presentation, the south doors were re-opened and everyone was invited to meet the Vice-Regal Party in a receiving line prior to the pre-dinner reception in the Salon.
The Second Prize Jury
John Drummond
United Kingdom
British Arts Administrator.
Jacques Lonchampt
France
French Music Critic.
Alexina Louie
Canada
Canadian composer of contemporary art music. 2002 Officer of the Order of Canada, recipient of the Order of Ontario, a Queenʼs Golden Jubilee Medal, as well as the Queenʼs Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Lois Marshall
Canada
Canadian soprano. In 1968, Marshall was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, & awarded the University of Alberta National Award in Music (1962), the Centennial Medal (1967), a Canada Music Council Medal (1972), the Ontario Arts Council Medal of Excellence (1973), the Molson Prize (1980), the Toronto Arts Award for music (1987), Governor General’s Performing arts award for Lifetime Artistic Achivement (1993) and the Order of Ontario (1993).
Paul Myers
United Kingdom
J.H. (Kwabena) N’Ketia
U.S.A.
Ghanian ethnomusicologist and composer. Awarded the Order of the Star of Ghana, the Grand Medal of the Government of Ghana (Civil Division), a DLitt (Honoris Causa) of the University of Ghana, the Ghana Book Award, ECRAG Special Honour Award (1987), Ghana Gospel Music Special Award (2003), and the ACRAG Flagstar Award (1993). He was a Member of Honour of the International Music Council.
John Peter Lee Roberts
Canada
Founder and President of the Glenn Gould Foundation and former Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Calgary
Rodion Shchedrin
U.S.S.R.
Soviet Russian composer and pianist, winner of USSR State Prize of the Russian Federation. He is also a former member of the Inter-Regional Deputies Group.
Allan Gotlieb,
Chair of the Jury
Canada
Canadian public servant and author who served as the Canadian ambassador to the United States from 1981 to 1989.