The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2016

The 2016 Nobel Laureates

The Nobel Prize in Physics Professor David J. Thouless Professor F. Duncan M. Haldane Professor J. Michael Kosterlitz

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage Professor J. Fraser Stoddart Professor Bernard L. Feringa

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Honorary Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi

The Nobel Prize in Literature Mr Bob Dylan

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Professor Oliver Hart Professor Bengt Holmström Programme

The Swedish royal anthem Kungssången Presentation of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to March in D Major, KV 249 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mr Bob Dylan after a speech by Professor Horace Engdahl Laureates take their seats on the stage ——————————————————————————— A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan Speech by Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Chairman of the Orchestration by Hans Ek Board of the Nobel Foundation Performed by Patti Smith ——————————————————————————— Quadrille from The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower Presentation of the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize by Germaine Tailleferre in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to ——————————————————————————— Professor Oliver Hart and Professor Bengt Holmström Presentation of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics to after a speech by Professor Per Strömberg Professor David J. Thouless ——————————————————————————— Professor F. Duncan M. Haldane The Swedish national anthem Du gamla, Du fria Professor J. Michael Kosterlitz The Queen of Sheba’s Festivity March from after a speech by Professor Thors Hans Hansson The Prodigal Son by Hugo Alfvén Played while the guests are leaving the auditorium Presentation of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to ——————————————————————————— Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage Professor J. Fraser Stoddart Music performed by Professor Bernard L. Feringa The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra after a speech by Professor Olof Ramström Conductor Orford Ness from Suffolk Suite by Doreen Carwithen Marie Rosenmir ——————————————————————————— Presentation of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Set Designer Honorary Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi Niklas Wollheim after a speech by Professor Nils-Göran Larsson

Floral Designer Serenade from King Christian II Suite by Jean Sibelius Helén Magnusson ———————————————————————————

——————————————————————————— The flowers are graciously provided by The Chamber of Commerce of Imperia and the Town of Sanremo The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic The RSPO is now engaged in a three- Orchestra (RSPO) was founded in 1902 year project with Swedish clarinet virtuoso and the Stockholm Concert Hall has been its Martin Fröst, creating ground breaking home since 1926. The RSPO gives around one performances and taking the concert hundred concerts annually, and the orchestra experience to a new level. The concerts also participates in the festivities associated Dollhouse and Genesis featuring Martin Fröst with the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and are currently available on RSPOPlay.se as the presentation of the Polar Music Prize. are many more concert performances by the Regular guest conductors include notable RSPO. An album featuring the RSPO and names such as Riccardo Muti, David Zinman, world-renowned American soprano Renée Marin Alsop and Michael Tilson Thomas. Fleming is soon to be released. Finnish-born Sakari Oramo has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Marie Rosenmir is a versatile artist and RSPO since 2008. His current contract runs one of Sweden’s most promising conductors. until 2020. Oramo regularly conducts leading She has a background as a pianist, organist orchestras all over the world, including the and opera singer, with diplomas in organ Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw playing and singing from the Academy of Orchestra in Amsterdam, Chicago Symphony Music and Drama in Gothenburg and from Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic. the College of Opera in Stockholm. Sakari Oramo has carried out several Rosenmir studied conducting at the Royal successful tours with the RSPO in recent College of Music in Stockholm and she has years. In 2015, Oramo and the RSPO held a taken part in numerous international master critically acclaimed European tour which classes. Her teachers include Jorma Panula, launched with two full houses at the Wiener Alexander Polishchuk and Johannes Schlaefli. Musikverein in Vienna. The newspaper She has worked as assistant conductor Die Welt concluded that the RSPO is “one at the Gothenburg Opera and was one of of the world’s best orchestras”. More the founders of the contemporary music recently, in August 2016, the RSPO and group Inversion. With KammarensembleN, Oramo performed at the Concertgebouw in Sweden’s most renowned contemporary Amsterdam to overwhelming praise by Dutch music ensemble, she has made recordings for critics. Swedish radio and TV, as well as two concert The RSPO has also received considerable tours. In 2006 she was the winner of the attention for several recordings with Sakari Swedish Conductors’ Award. Oramo. Current examples include the Marie Rosenmir is equally at home as a complete recordings of Carl Nielsen’s six symphonic conductor as in opera, and she symphonies, which have been widely praised appears regularly with the foremost Swedish internationally. The album of Nielsen’s orchestras. In 2013 she conducted Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 received a BBC The Magic Flute at Folkoperan in Stockholm Music Magazine Award 2016. Furthermore, and she will return for Lars-Erik Larsson’s Sirens, an album with music by contemporary God in Disguise in 2017. Marie Rosenmir’s composer Anders Hillborg, won a 2016 repertoire is extensive, ranging from baroque Swedish Grammy Award – as did the RSPO’s to contemporary music. She has premiered previous instalment of Hillborg’s music, several works and is an active champion Eleven Gates, in 2012. of Swedish music. She has received several awards and prizes.