Malik Merchant, Editor

The Aga Khan Music Awards: His Late Highness Aga Khan IV attended the inaugural ceremony in Lisbon in 2019; Ismaili TV will transmit the 2025 opening day concert live, November 20

By MALIK MERCHANT

Established in 2018 by His Late Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV and his brother, Prince Amyn Aga Khan, the Aga Khan Music Awards (AKMA), held every three years, are under the governance of an Advisory Council, which is co-chaired by the 50th Hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan, and his uncle, Prince Amyn Aga Khan.

Winners of the Aga Khan Music Awards
Please click on the image for the winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Music Awards.

The winners for the 2025 Music Awards were announced on November 3, 2025. For details, please click AKDN: Winners of 2025 Aga Khan Music Awards. The 2019 and 2022 AKMA were held in Lisbon and Oman, respectively.

Flashback: Aga Khan Music Awards in 2019 and 2022

2019, THE INAUGURAL AWARD: LISBON, PORTUGAL

2019 Aga Khan Music Awards First Day Covers
The photograph captures Mawlana Shah Karim, His Late Highness Aga Khan IV, with his brother, Prince Amyn, and Isabel Mota, President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (left), and Raul Moreira, Head of Philately at CTT (right). They are holding signed first-day covers of the commemorative stamp to celebrate the 2019 Aga Khan Music Awards. The stamps were unveiled on March 29, 2019,  by Francisco Lacerda, the CEO of CTT (Portugal Post). Photograph: The Ismaili / Akbar Hakim.

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2022: MUSCAT, OMAN

2022 Aga Khan Music Awards
Prince Amyn Aga Khan, younger brother of His Late Highness Aga Khan IV, and His Highness Sayyid Bilarab, preside over the presentation of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards in Muscat, Oman, October 30, 2022. Photograph: Akbar Hakim / AKDN.

2025: LONDON, ENGLAND

For the first time, the 2025 Aga Khan Music Awards are teaming up with the EFG London Jazz Festival and Southbank Centre to bring an extraordinary programme of concerts, collaborations, and award celebrations to the UK. This unique partnership is a testament to AKMA’s unwavering vision of excellence in world traditions.

For programming details over four days, November 20-23, 2025, please visit the EFG London Jazz Festival website and scroll down for more information and tickets.

The first day’s program on November 20, with two performances at 1 pm and 9 pm London time, will be held at the Ismaili Centre, London, and will be transmitted live on The Ismaili TV.

Viewers worldwide will be able to watch the live coverage as follows:

  • 1 pm and 9 pm (London);
  • 5am and 1pm (Vancouver);
  • 7am and 3pm (Houston);
  • 8am and 4pm (Toronto);
  • 2pm and 10pm (Paris);
  • 4pm (Nairobi); and
  • 6pm (Karachi).

The winners will be celebrated on November 21 and 22, at London’s Southbank Centre, in an awards ceremony forming part of the four-day festival.

Date posted: November 19, 2025.

Note: A version of this post appears on Simerg, our sister website, with the theme Insights from Around the World.

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