Honorary Doctors of Music

Honorary Doctors of Music conferred since 1955

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.