Summary
The Ditson Conductor's Award, established in 1945, is the oldest award honoring conductors for their commitment to the performance of American music. The US$5,000 purse is endowed by the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University, increased in 1999 from US$1,000.
The Ditson Conductor's Award was established five years after the 30 April 1940 death of Alice M. Ditson, widow of music publisher Charles Healy Ditson and daughter-in-law of Oliver Ditson, founder of the publishing house that bore his name. Her will bequested $400,000 (equivalent to $8.7 million in 2023) to Columbia University was for "the encouragement and aide of musicians."[1][2] From this was born fellowships, public hearings, publication of the work of talented musicians and the Ditson Conductor's Award.[2]
Ditson Conductor's Award recipients edit
- 1945 Howard Hanson
- 1946 Léon Barzin
- 1947 Alfred Wallenstein
- 1948 Dean Dixon
- 1949 Thor Johnson
- 1950 Izler Solomon
- 1951 Robert Whitney
- 1952 Leopold Stokowski
- 1953 Walter Hendl
- 1954 David Broekman
- 1955 Robert Shaw
- 1956 Victor Alessandro
- 1957 Howard Mitchell
- 1958 Leonard Bernstein
- 1959 Julius Rudel
- 1960 Richard Bales
- 1961 Richard Franko Goldman
- 1962 Guy Fraser Harrison
- 1963 Milton Katims
- 1964 Emerson Buckley
- 1965 Jacob Avshalomov
- 1966 William Strickland
- 1967 Igor Buketoff
- 1968 Alan Carter
- 1969 Frederick Fennell
- 1970 Gunther Schuller
- 1971 Maurice Abravanel
- 1972 Louis Lane
- 1973 Stanisław Skrowaczewski
- 1974 Lukas Foss
- 1975 Antal Doráti
- 1976 José Serebrier
- 1977 Eugene Ormandy
- 1978 Gregg Smith
- 1979 Sergiu Comissiona
- 1980 James A. Dixon
- 1981 Michael Charry
- 1982 Russell Patterson
- 1983 Julius Hegyi
- 1984 Leonard Slatkin
- 1985 Jorge Mester
- 1986 Efrain Guigui
- 1987 Dennis Russell Davies
- 1988 Lawrence Leighton Smith
- 1989 Gerard Schwarz
- 1990 Mstislav Rostropovich
- 1991 Christopher Keene
- 1992 Herbert Blomstedt
- 1993 Michael Tilson Thomas
- 1994 Gerhard Samuel
- 1995 Gustav Meier
- 1996 James Bolle
- 1997 David Zinman
- 1998 JoAnn Falletta
- 1999 Christoph von Dohnányi
- 2000 James DePreist
- 2001 Joel Sachs
- 2002 Edwin London
- 2003 David Alan Miller
- 2004 Donald Portnoy
- 2005 David Hoose
- 2006 David Robertson
- 2007 Gil Rose
- 2008 Robert Spano
- 2009 James Levine
- 2010 Osmo Vänskä
- 2011 Alan Gilbert
- 2012 George Manahan
- 2013 Jeffrey Milarsky
- 2014 Harold Rosenbaum
- 2015 John Mauceri
- 2016 Cliff Colnot
- 2017 Marin Alsop
- 2018 Oliver Knussen
- 2019 Bradley Lubman
- 2020 Steven Schick
- 2021 John Adams
- 2022 Delta David Gier
References edit
- ^ "Columbia Receives Trust to Aid Music". The New York Times. 1940-05-16. p. 31. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ a b "About the Fund". The Alice M. Ditson Fund. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
External links edit
- The Alice M. Ditson Fund | Conductors Award (official winners list)