Conductor Daniel Barenboim diagnosed with Parkinson’s Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim has announced he has Parkinson’s disease.
Barenboim is also a Classic Brit and Grammy winner, and last year BBC Four released the documentary Daniel Barenboim: In His Own Words, about his life.
A year later, Barenboim founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Palestinian writer Edward Said to bring together Israeli and Palestinian musicians, and later the Barenboim-Said Academy.
Barenboim has recorded with the Philharmonic Orchestra, delivered a 2006 BBC Reith Lectures in London, picked up the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, and in 2011 was honoured with an honorary knighthood.
Barenboim also founded the Daniel Barenboim Foundation to support cultural conversations through concerts.
