SAM Honorary Members
Each year the Board of Trustees recognizes a well-known, prominent senior figure who has made important contributions to the field of American music by granting an honorary membership. This honor is signified by a certificate and public ceremony that confers life membership in the Society, with all rights and benefits.
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2010 - R. Murray Schafer
2009 - Tony Isaacs
2008 - Riders In The Sky
2007 - Thomas Hampson
2006 - Muhal Richard Abrams
2005 - Pauline Oliveros
2004 - Chris Strachwitz
2003 - Mike Seeger
2002 - Loretta Lynn
2001 - Hollis Urban Liverpool
2000 - Oscar Peterson*
2000 - Georgia
Sea Island Singers
1999 - Van Cliburn
1998 - Libby Larsen
1997 - Gerard Schwarz
1996 - Leonard Slatkin
1995 - Gunther Schuller
1994 - Max Roach*
1993 - Lou Harrison*
1992 - John Cage*
1991 - Frederick Fennell*
1989 - Bill Monroe*
1988 - Carleton Sprague Smith*
1987 - H. Earle Johnson*
1986 - Vera Brodsky Lawrence*
1985 - Gilbert Chase*
1984 - Irving Lowens*
1983 - Otto E. Albrecht*
1982 - Wilfrid Mellers*
1982 - Virgil Thomson*
1981 - Howard
Hanson*
1980 - Lester S. Levy*
1979 - Nicolas Slonimsky*
* Deceased