Grammy Trustees Award

The Grammy Trustees Award is awarded by the Recording Academy to "individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording".[1] Through 1983, performers could also receive this award. This award is distinct from the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors performers.

Trustees Award recipients

The following individuals have received Trustees Awards, listed by year.

Year Recipient(s)
1967 Georg Solti & John Culshaw
1968 Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, Krzysztof Penderecki
1970 Robert Moog
1971 Chris Albertson, John Hammond, Larry Hiller, Paul Weston
1972 The Beatles
1977 Thomas Edison, Leopold Stokowski
1979 Goddard Lieberson, Frank Sinatra
1981 Count Basie, Aaron Copland
1983 Les Paul
1984 Béla Bartók
1985 Eldridge Johnson
1986 George & Ira Gershwin
1987 Harold Arlen, Emile Berliner, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
1989 Walt Disney, Quincy Jones, Cole Porter
1990 Dick Clark
1991 Milt Gabler, Berry Gordy, Sam Phillips
1992 Thomas A. Dorsey, Christine Farnon, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart
1993 Ahmet & Nesuhi Ertegün, W. C. Handy, George T. Simon
1994 Norman Granz
1995 Pierre Cossette
1996 George Martin, Jerry Wexler
1997 Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
1998 Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frances Preston, Richard Rodgers
1999 Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff
2000 Clive Davis, Phil Spector
2001 Arif Mardin, Phil Ramone
2002 Tom Dowd, Alan Freed
2003 Alan Lomax, New York Philharmonic
2004 Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Orrin Keepnews, Marian McPartland
2005 Hoagy Carmichael, Don Cornelius, Alfred Lion, Dr. Billy Taylor
2006 Chris Blackwell, Owen Bradley, Al Schmitt
2007 Estelle Axton, Cosimo Matassa, Stephen Sondheim
2008 Olumide Chapters, Jac Holzman, Willie Mitchell
2009 George Avakian, Elliott Carter, Allen Toussaint
2010 Harold Bradley, Florence Greenberg, Walter C. Miller
2012 Dave Bartholomew, Steve Jobs, Rudy Van Gelder

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