World Economic Forum at Davos - Cultural Leaders Annual Meeting 2019
Tue, Jan 22
|Davos
2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Jan 22, 2019 – Jan 25, 2019
Time & Location
Jan 22, 2019, 7:00 AM – Jan 25, 2019, 9:30 PM
Davos, Davos, Switzerland
About the event
Cultural Leaders
Annual Meeting 2019
The 2019 Crystal Awards
The Crystal Award celebrates the achievements of leading artists and cultural figures whose leadership inspires inclusive and sustainable change. 2019 marks the 25th year of the award.
Marin Alsop, for her leadership in championing diversity in music
Marin Alsop, Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony since 2007, is one of the greatest conductors active today. Earlier this year she was the first woman to be appointed Chief Conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and, in 2013, was the first woman in 118 years to conduct the BBC’s “Last Night of the Proms”. She has tirelessly endeavoured to provide opportunities for all people to access music for a world where diversity in classical music is the norm rather than the exception. In Baltimore she launched the “OrchKids” programme to serve the city’s less privileged children, and the BSO Academy and Rusty…