Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, an honour previously bestowed upon musicians such as Brahms, Elgar, Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Myra Hess, Stravinsky, Kathleen Ferrier, Britten, Shostakovich, Bernstein, and more recently Martha Argerich, Jessye Norman, John Williams, Mitsuko Uchida, Arvo Pärt, and Thomas Adès. Ólafsson was presented with the award by Angela Dixon, Chair of the RPS Board of Trustees, following his performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.