The Grammy Trustees Award is awarded by The Recording Academy to individuals who, during their careers in music, technology, and so on have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording. From 1983 onwards, 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. YearRecipient(s) Ref.1967Georg Solti and John Culshaw1968Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Krzysztof Penderecki1970Robert Moog1971Chris Albertson, John Hammond, Larry Hiller, Paul Weston1972The Beatles1977Thomas Edison, Leopold Stokowski1979Goddard Lieberson, Frank Sinatra1981Count Basie, Aaron Copland1983Les Paul1984Béla Bartók1985Eldridge R. Johnson1986George and Ira Gershwin1987Harold Arlen, Emile Berliner, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer1989Walt Disney, Quincy Jones, Cole Porter1990Dick Clark1991Milt Gabler, Berry Gordy, Sam Phillips1992Thomas A. Dorsey, Christine Farnon, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart1993Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, W. C. Handy, George T. Simon1994Norman Granz1995Pierre Cossette1996George Martin, Jerry Wexler1997Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller1998Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frances Preston, Richard Rodgers1999Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff2000Clive Davis, Phil Spector2001Arif Mardin, Phil Ramone2002Tom Dowd, Alan Freed2003Alan Lomax, New York Philharmonic2004Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Orrin Keepnews, Marian McPartland2005Hoagy Carmichael, Don Cornelius, Alfred Lion, Billy Taylor2006Chris Blackwell, Owen Bradley, Al Schmitt2007Estelle Axton, Cosimo Matassa, Stephen Sondheim2008Clarence Avant, Jac Holzman, Willie Mitchell2009George Avakian, Elliott Carter, Allen Toussaint2010Harold Bradley, Florence Greenberg, Walter C. Miller2011Al Bell, Wilma Cozart Fine, Bruce Lundvall2012Dave Bartholomew, Steve Jobs, Rudy Van Gelder2013Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Leonard and Phil Chess, Alan Livingston2014Ennio Morricone, Rick Hall, Jim Marshall2015Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Richard Perry, George Wein2016John Cage, Fred Foster, Chris Strachwitz2017Thom Bell, Mo Ostin, Ralph S. Peer2018Bill Graham, Seymour Stein, John Williams2019Lou Adler, Ashford & Simpson, Johnny Mandel2020Frank Buckley Walker, Ken Ehrlich, Philip Glass2021Ed Cherney, Benny Golson, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds2023Henry Diltz, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jim Stewart2024Peter Asher, DJ Kool Herc, Joel Katz2025Erroll Garner, Glyn Johns, Tania León2026Bernie Taupin, Eddie Palmieri, Sylvia Rhone
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