The laureate of the 2024 Antonín Dvořák Prize is Barrie Kosky

Barrie Kosky have been named the laureate of the Antonín Dvořák Prize for 2024 by the Academic Council. Australian theatre and opera director has presented Czech operas in many opera houses abroad over his long international career. His productions include Rusalka (Komische Oper Berlin), The Cunning Little Vixen (Bayerische Staatsoper), and Katya Kabanova (Salzburg Festival). The audiovisual recording of the Salzburg production of Katya Kabanova, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Jakub Hrůša, won a 2024 International Classical Music Award, was selected as Gramophone Magazine’s Critics’ Choice 2023, and won the 2024 Gramophone Awards in the “Opera” category.

barrie-kosky-laureate-cena-antonina-dvoraka-20024-credit-jan-windszus-1.jpg (95 KB)The Prague Philharmonia PKF concert featuring conductor Marc Albrecht and soloists Kateřina Kněžíková, Katharine Mehrling, Jarmila Vantuchová and Peter Berger, which will take place on 9 December 2024 in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle, is a special occasion during which the 2024 Antonín Dvořák Prize will be awarded to Barrie Kosky. The concert programme features a cross-section of Barrie Kosky’s lifelong artistic achievements. The prize is presented each year to individuals or institutions which have spread the legacy of Antonín Dvořák and promoted Czech music in a significant way.

Partners of the Antonín Dvořák Prize award ceremony

Principal patron

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Concert partner

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With the kind support of

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Antonín Dvořák Prize

The Antonín Dvořák Prize is a prestigious award in the field of classical music. It is intended to highlight people, artistic collectives, or institutions for exceptional artistic achievements or significant merit in promoting and popularising Czech classical music in the Czech Republic and abroad. Winners have been announced by the Academy of Classical Music since 2009.

The first laureate of the prize was the great-grandson of the composer Antonín Dvořák, the violinist, violist, and conductor Josef Suk. Following him were such figures as the pianist Ivan Moravec, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and the world-famous choreographer and dancer Jiří Kylián. In the past, the importance of the prize has been underscored by the special places and occasions of its presentation. The soprano Ludmila Dvořáková received the Antonín Dvořák Prize in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle during a recital by the pianist Lang Lang, the conductor Jiří Bělohlávek was given the prize in 2014 at Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Czech Philharmonic received it at its concert celebrating 100 years of Czech statehood at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

Laureates of the Antonín Dvořák Prize receive a glass sculpture of a cello designed by the architect Jiří Pelcl and produced by the glassmakers from the company Moser.

Charter and Schedule

The awarding of the Antonín Dvořák Prize is governed by a charter. You can download the charter in its full wording here.

Academic Council

Since 2012, the Academic Council has made the decisions on awarding the Antonín Dvořák Prize. The Academic Council consists of important figures of Czech cultural life and classical music, and it decides on nominations and the actual selection of winners of the Antonín Dvořák Prize.

  • Petr Altrichter, conductor
  • David Beveridge, musicologist
  • Jakub Čížek, director of Prague Radio Symphony
  • Věra Drápelová, music publicist
  • Jakub Hrůša, Chief Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic
  • Ivo Kahánek, pianist, educator HAMU
  • Ivan Klánský, pianist, Dean of the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU), holder of the Antonín Dvořák Prize 2017
  • Jiří Kylián, choreographer, holder of the Antonín Dvořák Prize 2013
  • David Mareček, general director of the Czech Philharmonic, pianist
  • Tomáš Motl, executive director of the ČT art channel
  • Jan Simon, artistic director of the Academy of Classical Music, pianist
  • Luboš Stehlík, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Harmonie, music publicist
  • Jiří Vejvoda, music publicist

Laureates