Lifetime Achievement AwardLifetime Achievement Award
This honor is given by the Board of Trustees in recognition of the recipient's significant and substantial lifetime achievement in scholarship, performance, teaching, and/or support of American Music. The following is a list of awardees:
Robert Stevenson (1999)
*Eileen Southern (2000)
Billy Taylor (2000)
Richard Crawford (2001)
Charles Hamm (2002)
*H. Wiley Hitchcock (2003)
*Adrienne Fried Block (2004)
Dena Epstein (2005)
Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. (2006)
Vivian Perlis (2007)
Bill C. Malone (2008)
*Horace Clarence Boyer (2009)
Wayne Shirley (2010)
* - Deceased