Yo-Yo Ma awarded Praemium Imperiale Award for music
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
The awards, worth £400,000 in total, are given by the Japan Art Association under the honorary patronage of His Imperial Highness Prince Hitachi, younger brother of the Emperor Emeritus of Japan
Yo-Yo Ma has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale Award in the music category.
Since 1989, the Praemium Imperiale Awards have been given annually in the categories drawn from Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music and Theatre/Film to cover fields of achievement not represented by the Nobel Prizes.
The Laureates are selected from a list submitted by six International Advisors to the Japan Art Association.
Previous British winners include David Hockney, Mona Hatoum, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, David Chipperfield, Judi Dench, Anthony Caro and Tony Cragg.