The Barenboim–Said Akademie is an academy located in Berlin, Germany, offering bachelor's degrees and Artist Diploma certificates in music; it opened on 8 December 2016. It was co-founded by the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and the literary theorist Edward Said. The academy was financed to a capacity of 90 young musicians, with an admissions focus on the Middle East and North Africa, in the spirit of the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
The façade of the Barenboim–Said Academy on Französische Straße
Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim in Seville, 2002
Pierre Boulez Saal
Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin.
Barenboim receiving the 2019 Konrad Adenauer Prize from the City of Cologne
Daniel Barenboim, age 11, with composer Eithan Lustig and the Gadna Youth orchestra (1953)
Barenboim's wedding in Jerusalem, 1967. Beno Rothenberg, Meitar collection, National Library of Israel
U.S. concert performance at age 15 (January 1958)