The Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award was an award for conductors in the United States.
History The award was established in 1985 as the Affiliate Artists' Seaver Conducting Award. The award was being given every two or three years. The award was conceived by the Seaver Institute and funded by the Seaver Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1987 to 1993 it was administered by the New World Symphony of Miami. It was then administered by the Juilliard School.
Award winners Hugh Wolff and Kent Nagano, 1985 Catherine Comet, Jahja Ling, and Neal Stulberg, 1988 Kenneth Jean and Carl St. Clair, 1990 David Loebel and Christopher Wilkins, 1992 Robert Spano, 1994 Alan Gilbert and David Robertson, 1997 William Eddins, 2000 JoAnn Falletta and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, 2002
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