Honorary Doctors of Music conferred since 1955
2024 Anouska Shankar
2019 Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan; Yo-Yo Ma
2017 Judith Weir
2016 Arvo Pärt
2014 Sir Harrison Birtwistle
2013 Murray Perahia
2011 Sir George Martin
2009 Dame Mitsuko Uchida
2008 Dame Emma Kirkby
2007 Daniel Barenboim
2005 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
2003 Placido Domingo
2001 Dame Felicity Lott
1999 Sir Simon Rattle
1997 Sir Charles Mackerras
1995 Dr Alfred Dürr
1994 Klaus Tennstedt
1993 Isaac Stern
1992 Dame Joan Sutherland
1992 Sviatoslav Richter
1988 Bernard Haitink
1988 Paul Sacher
1987 Pierre Boulez
1986 Sir Reginald Goodall
1985 Sir Geraint Evans
1984 Jacqueline du Pré
1984 Dame Eva Turner
1983 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
1983 Alfred Brendel
1981 Sir Peter Pears
1980 Mstislav Rostropovich
1979 Sir Adrian Boult (DLitt)
1978 Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau
1978 Herbert von Karajan
1977 Rosalyn Tureck
1976 Sir Frederick Ashton
1975 Dame Janet Baker
1975 Paul Tortelier
1972 Andres Segovia
1972 Sir Georg Solti
1970 Sir Lennox Berkeley
1969 Sir Donald Keith Falkner
1968 Nadia Boulanger
1967 Sir Michael Tippett
1963 Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
1962 Yehudi Menuhin
1960 Zoltan Kodály
1959 Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias
1958 Francis Poulenc
1958 Dimitri Shostakovich
1956 John Christie
The above list represents all the honorary Doctors of Music conferred since the foundation of the modern Faculty of Music. But for many centuries the University has chosen to honour the most distinguished musicians of the day by the bestowal of the D.Mus. These include Handel, Haydn and Richard Strauss.
