Citation of Merit - Past Winners
| 2023 |
John Holiday |
Countertenor, educator |
| 2021 |
Betty Perry |
Performer, educator |
| 2017 |
Brian Stokes Mitchell |
Performer, philanthropist |
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Rob Kapilow |
Composer, performer, educator |
| 2014 |
Jake Heggie |
Composer |
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Audra McDonald |
Performer |
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San Fran Opera Co |
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| 2011 |
Craig Hella Johnson |
Conductor, arranger |
| 2008 |
NAAM |
Int’l Music Products Association |
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Opera Theater |
St Louis |
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Tom Chapin |
Folk music artist |
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Int’l Festival |
Institute – Round Top, TX |
| 2003 |
Harvey Schmidt |
Composer of musical theater, pianist, graphic artist, freelance illustrator, innovator in theater workshop, experimental theater, musical revues, and classical music lover |
| 2001 |
Bill Cormack |
Choral conductor, clinician, adjudicator, writer, administrator, consultant and passionate arts advocate |
| 1998 |
Lloyd Pfautsch |
Composer, choral conductor, clinician, arranger, educator |
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Henry Janiec |
Retired dean of School of Music at Converse College, retired director of Brevard Music Center |
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John Frohnmayer |
Arts advocate |
| 1995 |
Robert Sherman |
Critic, broadcaster, teacher |
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Ellis Marsalis |
Jazz |
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa |
Soprano |
| 1992 |
Maurice Abravanel |
Conductor |
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Victor Borge |
Pianist |
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Beverly Sills |
Opera |
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Pinchas Zukerman |
Violin |
| 1989 |
Ezra Laderman |
Composer, educator |
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Ardis Krainik |
Chicago Lyric Opera |
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William Warfield |
Vocalist |
| 1986 |
Sarah Caldwell |
Operatic conductor |
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Van Cliburn |
Pianist |
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Aaron Copland |
Composer |
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William Schumann |
Composer, educator |
| 1983 |
Jester Hairston |
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Itzhak Perlman |
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Texaco Inc. |
40 years live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts |
| 1980 |
Richard Gaddes |
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Jascha Heifetz |
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Suzanne Weil |
Public Broadcasting System |
| 1977 |
Arthur Fiedler |
Conductor Boston Pops |
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Paul Fromm |
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William Grant Still |
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| 1974 |
Arthur Rubinstein |
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Seiji Ozawa |
Conductor BSO, Vienna Opera |
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Jack Benny |
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Oliver Daniel |
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| 1972 |
Nadia Boulanger |
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Pierre Boulez |
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Robert Shaw |
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| 1970 |
Pablo Casals |
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Eugene Ormandy |
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Guiomar Novaes |
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Marjorie Merriweather |
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| 1968 |
Herman Newman |
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E. Thayer Gaston |
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Earl Vincent Moore |
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Paul Van Katwijk |
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AT&T (Bell Telephone Hour) |
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Claudette Sorel |
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| 1966 |
The Ford Foundation |
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Rudolph Ganz |
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Leonard Bernstein |
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Harold Schönberg |
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Jacob Aushalomov |
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| 1964 |
Howard Hanson |
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Archie N. Jones |
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Leopold Stokowski |
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