Fifteen musicians have received the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards at a ceremony held at Royal Opera House Muscat’s House of Musical Arts, reports UNB.
The award-giving ceremony marked the culmination of a two-day celebration in which laureates performed live or were presented in short films.
The 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards concluded on Sunday night with the presentation of awards to 15 laureates by Sayyid Bilarab bin Haitham Al Said and Prince Amyn Aga Khan during a gala concert.
At a ceremony conducted at Muscat’s Royal Opera House’s House of Musical Arts, fifteen musicians were presented with 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards, according to UNB.
The celebration’s two days of live performances and short film screenings came to a close with the prize presentation.
Sayyid Bilarab bin Haitham Al Said and Prince Amyn Aga Khan presented awards to 15 laureates as part of a gala concert on Sunday night to bring the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards to a close.
A special Award for Lifetime Achievement was presented to acclaimed tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain during the Music Awards’ opening night concert on 29 October.
This evening’s programme featured performances by Peni Candra Rini, an Indonesian composer, improviser, vocalist and educator; Yasamin Shahhosseini, an Iranian oud player who is reimagining the place of the oud in Iranian music; the Tehran-based Golshan Ensemble, which performs Iranian classical music.
