The Peabody Conservatory Distinguished Alumni Award

This award is given to a former student of the Conservatory who has graduated from the school or attended for at least two years. It is awarded for distinguished work in his/her profession: performance, conducting, teaching, composing or administrating. The Alumnus/a receiving this award must have demonstrated great artistry or service during an established career. The award was first given in 1962.

Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award include:

• 2019 – Vivian Adelberg Rudow 1960, 1979
• 2017 – James C. Scott 1966, 1973
• 2012 – Ann Schein
• 2007 – Edith Ho 1962, 1966
• 2006 – Norman Scribner 1956, 1961
• 2002 – James Morris
• 2000 – Carter Brey 1976
• 1999 – David Starobin 1973
• 1997 – Nathan Carter 1984
• 1996 – Richard Pittman 1957
• 1993 – Jacob Berg 1951; Seth Riggs 1954
• 1992 – Sharon Robinson 1972
• 1989 – John Weaver
• 1988 – Leigh Martinet 1946, 1966
• 1987 – Albert Fuller 1950; Walter Lawson 1952
• 1985 – James Atherton 1965, 1966; Tommy Newsom 1952
• 1984 – Andre Watts 1972
• 1983 – Louis A. Potter, Jr. 1935; Virginia M. Reinecke 1940; Reynaldo G. Reyes 1960
• 1980 – Richard Wayne Dirksen 1942
• 1979 – Richard B. Cassily 1945, 1952
• 1978 – Leah Effenbach 1932, 1935
• 1977 – Robert F. Twynham 1955
• 1976 – Louis Cheslock 1921
• 1975 – Jean Eichelberger Ivey 1946
• 1974 – Hugo D. Weisgall 1927, 1935
• 1973 – Richard P. DeLone 1952, 1953, 1954; George Steiner 1937, 1938, 1940; Loretta Lee Ver Valen 1926, 1927
• 1972 – Arnold K. Kvam 1934; Sylvan Levin 1921
• 1971 – C. Griffith Bratt 1936, 1943; Lubov B. Keefer, 1917, 1918; George Woodhead 1947, 1954
• 1970 – H. Emerson Meyers 1930, 1931
• 1969 – John Duke 1918; Carlotta Heller 1904, 1909; Lloyd C. Mitchell 1931, 1935, 1939
• 1968 – Dorothea Freitag 1932
• 1967 – Dominik J. Argento 1950, 1954; Katherine Bacon 1913, 1915; Veronica S. Tyler 1959, 1960
• 1966 – Virginia Carty de Lillo 1914; Walter G. Charmbury 1904, 1912
• 1965 – Thomas B. Dunn 1946; Maurice Eisenberg 1913, 1917; Anne Hull 1907, 1913
• 1964 – Virgil Fox 1932; Otto Ortmann 1913, 1917
• 1963 – Howard Mitchell; Grace Spofford 1912, 1916
• 1962 – Mary Howe 1913, 1925; Marble Garrison Siemonn 1909, 1910

The Peabody Conservatory Young Maestro Award

This award is given to a former student of the Conservatory who has graduated from the school or attended for at least two years. This award was established in 1988 to recognize the outstanding musical achievements accomplished by young alumni of the Peabody Conservatory.

Recipients of the Young Maestro Award include:

• 2012 – Dontae Winslow 1997, 1999
• 2001 – Michael Hersch 1995, 1997
• 1998 – Theodora Hanslowe 1994
• 1995 – Awadagin Pratt 1989, 1992
• 1992 – Hecht and Shapiro – Thomas Hecht 1984, 1987 and Sandra Shapiro 1986
• 1988 – Hugh Wolff ’=1977, 1978

The Peabody Alumni Achievement Award Recognizing Outstanding Contributions to Music in Maryland

Established in 2001. Recipients of the Peabody Alumni Award Recognizing Outstanding Contributions to Music in Maryland include:

• 2017 – Jason Love 1992, 1994
• 2017 – Ronald J. Gretz 1966, 1968
• 2012 – Frances Motyca Dawson 1961, 1962, 1967
• 2012 – John Barry Talley 1967, 1983
• 2009 – Custer LaRue 1979
• 2004 – Ray Sprenkle 1970, 1971, 1979
• 2002 – Mildred Reiner 1953; Donald Regier 1966
• 2001 – Edward Goldstein 1976, 1978

The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Heritage Award

This award is intended to honor alumni or friends of Johns Hopkins who have contributed outstanding service over an extended period to the progress of the University and the activities of the Alumni Association. This award was established in 1973.

Peabody recipients of the Johns Hopkins Heritage Award include:

• 2019 – Paul Matlin 1970, 1972
• 2019 – Allan and Claire Jensen (Peabody friends)
• 2018 – Christine Rutt Schmitz 1975
• 2017 – Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Donald Sutherland
• 2017 – Carol Cannon, 1967
• 2016 – Mark Paris 1984
• 2015 – Wilda Heiss 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964
• 2014 – Taylor Hanex 1975, 1978
• 2013 – Audrey McCallum 1960, 1967
• 2009 – Linda Goodwin 1976, 1989, 1997
• 2007 – Elizabeth Schaaf 1977
• 2006 – Anne Garside
• 2006 – Benjamin Griswold IV
• 2003 – Loraine Panek Bernstein 1955
• 2001 – Hilda Perl Goodwin 1954, 1967
• 2000 – Loretta Lee Ver Valen 1926, 1927; Jacques Schlenger, Peabody Advisory Council Member
• 1997 – Patricia S. Springer 1959
• 1995 – Robert O. Pierce, Past Director
• 1993 – Lynn Taylor Hebden 1951, 1954; George Woodhead 1947, 1953, 1954
• 1988 – Ruth Renneburg 1940, 1942, 1948
• 1987 – Sylvia Betts Dodd 1951
• 1982 – Mary C. Walker 1934

The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award

This award is intended to honor alumni who have typified the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and brought credit to the University by their personal accomplishment, professional  achievement, or humanitarian service. This award was established in 1978.

Peabody recipients of the Johns Hopkins Distinguished Alumnus Award include:

• 2022 – Gemma New (MM ’11, Conducting)
• 2019 – Vivian Adelberg Rudow 1957, 1960, 1979
• 2016 – Hugh Wolff 1977, 1978
• 2016 – Mark Markham 1984, 1986, 1991
• 2014 – Zuill Bailey, 1994
• 2010 – Murry Sidlin 1962
• 2008 – Awadagin Pratt 1989, 1992
• 2007 – Kim Kashkashian 1973
• 2004 – Manuel Barrueco 1975
• 2002 – Edward L. Polochick 1978
• 1981 – Andre Watts 1972
• 1980 – Hugo Weisgall 1931
• 1976 – Morton K. Blaustein 1943; Arts & Sciences 1950; University Trustee

The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Global Achievement Award

Intended to honor alumni who exemplify the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and have brought credit to the university and their profession in the international arena through their professional achievements or humanitarian service. This award was established in 2009 as the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Knowledge for the World Award. In November of 2013, the award was renamed the Johns Hopkins Univeristy Alumni Association Global Achievement Award.

Peabody recipients of the Johns Hopkins Global Achievement Award include:

• 2015 – Ken Lam 2007
• 2014 – Mark Cudek 1982
• 2012* – Lawrence Manchester 1994, 1995
• 2011* – Peter Lee 2006, 2008
• 2009* – Byeong Woo Lee 1998, 2000

*Award presented as the Johns Hopkins Knowledge for the World Award in these years.

The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Outstanding Recent Graduate Award

Intended to honor recent graduates of Johns Hopkins (within 10 years of graduation) for outstanding achievement or service in his or her professional or volunteer life. Support of Johns Hopkins may be a consideration, but not a requirement. This Award was established in 2009.

Peabody recipients of the Johns Hopkins Outstanding Recent Graduate Award include:

• 2022 – Jonathan Rush (MM ’19, Conducting)
• 2019 – Zachary Herchen 2006, 2007, 2009
• 2017 – Meng Su 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016
• 2013 – Michael Straus 2007
• 2012 – Jacob Yoffee 2002, 2003, 2004
• 2011 – Ben Kim 2004
• 2010 – Svetoslav Stoyanov 2003, 2005
• 2009 – Felix Hell 2007, 2008

The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Community Hero Award

Recognizes outstanding contributions that address critical social, economic and environmental needs throughout our society and communities, including local communities. Both individuals and groups are eligible. The nominee(s) may be either Johns Hopkins alumni (individual or group) who have impacted any community OR non-alumni (individual or group) who have impacted a Johns Hopkins institution.

Peabody recipients of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Community Hero Award include:

• 2019 – Daniel Trahey 2000