Daniel Barenboim will conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin in Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires at the end of the month, performing seven concerts. Bruckner Symphonies 7, 8, and 9 and a concert performance of Tristan and Isolde are on the program, among other works by Mahler and Schönberg. The Wagner opera was originally scheduled to be performed in the newly renovated Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, but due to delays in construction work in the theatre, the performances of the Staatskapelle have been relocated to the Teatro Coliseo and the 10,000-seat Luna Park Stadium.


A CONCERT FOR TWO PEOPLES
March 2008

On Friday, March 28, 2008 at 5:30 pm at the Mary Nathanel Golden Hall of Friendship, YMCA Jerusalem, Daniel Barenboim performed as conductor and soloist with the Mozart Orchestra, a chamber orchestra formed specially for the occasion and made up of young Israeli and Palestinian musicians. Guy Braunstein, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, led the orchestra, and Saleem Abboud Ashkar also performed as soloist.

DANIEL BARENBOIM AWARDED SOAS’S FIRST HONORARY DOCTOR OF MUSIC DEGREE
February 2008

The School of Oriental and African Studies in London chose Daniel Barenboim as the recipient of its first honorary doctorate in music in recognition of the work of the Barenboim-Said Foundation and of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The award was conferred by SOAS President and leading human rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy, and a congratulatory oration was given by Professor Keith Howard of the School’s Music Department.

DANIEL BARENBOIM AWARDED ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY GOLD MEDAL
January 2008

Daniel Barenboim has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society [RPS] Gold
Medal, one of the most prestigious honours in classical music. He was presented with
the medal by Graham Sheffield, Chairman of the Royal Philharmonic Society,
at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Monday 28 January following the opening concert of
his Beethoven Sonata Cycle.

SUNDAY MATINÉES AT STAATSOPER BERLIN TO SHOWCASE DANIEL BARENBOIM AS VOCAL ACCOMPANIST, PIANIST AND CONDUCTOR
January 2008

Over the course of the 2007-2008 season, Daniel Barenboim’s multi-faceted musicianship will be demonstrated in a new series of Sunday Matinées on the stage of the Staatsoper Berlin. He will partner at the piano singers Christine Schäefer, Dorothea Röschmann, Magdalena Kožená and Thomas Quasthoff; he will conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin’s Orchestra Academy made up of musicians from the Staatskapelle Berlin; and he will give an all-Liszt piano recital featuring paraphrases from Verdi operas. More information about the Sunday Matinée series can be found on the Staatsoper Berlin website, www.staatsoper-berlin.de.