Gramophone Hall of Fame - 2016

The following artists have been chosen to join the Gramophone Hall of Fame for the year 2016 because of their influence on the classical music recording industry.

Friedrich Gulda (Pianist)
Born on May 16, 1930 in Vienna, Austria.
Died on January 27, 2000 Steinbach am Attersee, Austria.
Guilda worked in both classical and jazz music.

Gundula Janowitz (Soprano)
Born on August 2, 1937 in Berlin, Germany.
Grew up in Granz, Austria and became a naturalized Austrian.
She is a lyric soprano singer of opera, oratorios and concert recitals.

Dame Emma Kirkby (Soprano)
Born on February 26, 1949 in Camberley, Surry, England, UK.
She is an English soprano who specializes in early music.  She was appointed Dame in 2007.

Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichordist and Conductor)
Born on May 30, 1928 in 's-Graveland, North Holland.
Died on January 16, 2012 in Amsterdam.
He was a renowned keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teach and editor.  He was instrumental in the movement to perform music on period instruments.

Yevgeny Mravinsky (Conductor)
Born in 1903.
Died in 1988.
He conducted the Leningrad Philharmonic from 1938-88.

Eugene Ormandy (Conductor)
Born Jeno Blau on November 18, 1899 in Budapest, Austria-Hungry.
Died on March 12, 1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was a conductor and violinist who became the music director and conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 44 years.  The Philadelphia Orchestra had three gold records and won two Grammy Awards during his time with them.

Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo-Soprano)
Born on May 9, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden.
She made her professional operatic debut in 1983 at the Basel Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1985, La Scale in 1987 and Metropolitan Opera in December 1988.  Her recording of Grieg songs won the 1993 Gramophone Record of the Year.

Trevor Pinnock (Harpsichordist and Conductor)
Born on December 16, 1946 in England.
He was associated with The English Concert, former artistic director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra and founded The Classical Band in New York.  He won a Gramophone Award for his recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with the European Brandenburg Ensemble.

Grigory Sokolov (Pianist)
Born in 1950 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He won the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Jon Vickers (Tenor)
Born Jonathan Stewart Vickers on October 29, 1926 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Died on July 10, 2015 in Ontario, Canada.
In 1960 he joined the Metropolitan Opera.  In 1968 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada and received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 1998.