Aga Khan Music Awards Unveil 22 Finalists For 2025
Aga Khan Music Awards Unveil 22 Finalists For 2025
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Media Source: World Music Central
Date: 10 October 2025
The Aga Khan Music Programme has named 22 finalists for the 2025 Aga Khan Music Awards, selected from more than 300 nominees across 16 countries. Winners will be announced on 4 November 2025 and honoured on 22 November at London’s Southbank Centre, the centrepiece of a four-day festival (20–23 November) presented with the…
The Aga Khan Music Programme has named 22 finalists for the 2025 Aga Khan Music Awards, selected from more than 300 nominees across 16 countries. Winners will be announced on 4 November 2025 and honoured on 22 November at London’s Southbank Centre, the centrepiece of a four-day festival (20–23 November) presented with the EFG London Jazz Festival. A $500,000 prize fund will be shared among the laureates. This year’s cohort ranges from internationally active artists to revered local tradition-bearers. Notable finalists include Mohi Bahauddin Dagar, a twentieth-generation exponent of dhrupad; master balafon player Mamadou Diabaté, who preserves the Sambla balafon language through teaching in Burkina Faso and abroad; gnawa maâlem Hamid El Kasri, known for collaborations with Joe Zawinul, Snarky Puppy, and Jacob Collier; and Lebanese buzuq innovator Farah Kaddour, whose projects serve communities displaced by war or extreme poverty.