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CONDUCTOR JAMES CONLON TO BE AWARDED THE "GALILEO 2000 MUSIC PRIZE" IN FLORENCE ON JUNE 25

American conductor James Conlon will be awarded the Galileo 2000 Prize from the Fondazione Premio Galileo 2000 in a ceremony to occur June 25, 2008 at the Scuderie Reali della Pace (Royal Stables of Peace) in Florence, Italy. Mr. Conlon will be the twelfth recipient bestowed the music prize titled the “Giglio d’Oro” (Golden Lily). Past winners include Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and Daniel Barenboim. The Galileo 2000 Prize, founded in 1996 by Alfonso De Virgiliis with support from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, one of Italy’s oldest and most prominent festivals, is awarded each year to an artist who has made a significant contribution to music, art and peace in Florence.

On May 30, Mr. Conlon was awarded the Medal of the American Liszt Society given to an individual who has achieved international distinction in performance, writing, and/or scholarship particularly associated with Franz Liszt. In a ceremony held at the Library of Congress, Mr. Conlon accepted the award via video from Florence where he was rehearsing Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Mr. Conlon is the only conductor to have received the award. Other past recipients include Claudio Arrau, Jorge Bolet, and Alfred Brendel.

Mr. Conlon is one of five first recipients of the Opera News Award given in 2005 in recognition for distinguished achievement in opera. For his efforts in championing the works of composers silenced by the Nazi regime, Mr. Conlon received the Crystal Globe Award from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in 2007 and the Zemlinsky Prize in 1999. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music Degree by The Juilliard School in 2004.  Mr. Conlon was named an Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1996, and in 2004 was promoted to Commander.  In 2002, James Conlon received France’s highest distinction from the President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac—the Légion d’Honneur.

James Conlon is a world renowned conductor with a vast and diversified symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire. He has maintained long and lasting relationships with many of the world's most prestigious symphony orchestras and opera houses.  Since his New York Philharmonic debut in 1974, he has appeared as guest conductor with virtually every major North American and European orchestra and has been a frequent guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for over thirty years. Mr. Conlon is Music Director of Los Angeles Opera, Music Director of the Ravinia Festival, summer residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and has been Music Director of the Cincinnati May Festival since 1979. He has recorded for EMI, Sony Classical, Erato, Capriccio, Telarc and Decca.

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