Each year, the Academy confers honorary awards to recognise those who have contributed significantly to the music profession or to the Academy itself.
Nominations for 2021/22 have now closed and nominations for 2022/23 will open in September 2022.
There are several types of award:
- Honorary Doctor of the University (Hon DMus)
- Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM)
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM)
- Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon FRAM)
- Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM)
- Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon ARAM)
Nomination process
- All nominations must be made through the online form.
- Multiple nominations must be submitted separately.
- We highly recommend drafting your supporting statement separately as incomplete forms cannot be saved.
- Your supporting statement should be no more than 300 words long.
- If you have any questions or experience issues submitting a nomination, please contact honours@ram.ac.uk or call 020 7873 7378.
- All nominations will be treated in confidence.
- Nominations can be made by alumni, staff and students of the Academy.
- Joint or self-nominations will not be accepted.
If you have any questions about our honorary awards, please contact honours@ram.ac.uk.
Limited to 300 former Academy students who have distinguished themselves within the music profession.
Richard Addison 1989
Christopher Adey 2003
Eleanor Alberga 2020
Raymond Allen 1994
Paul Archibald 2003
Irvine Arditti 1988
Craig Armstrong CBE 2005
Sheila Armstrong 1973
Stephen John Ashfield 2018
Katherine Baker 2010
Quintin Ballardie OBE 1986
Inon Barnatan 2017
Timothy Baxter 1979
Steuart Bedford 1972
Emma Bell 2007
Elinor Bennett 2006
Michael Berkeley CBE 1996
Emily Beynon 2002
Sir Harrison Birtwistle CH 1986
Richard Bissill 2005
Virginia Black 1991
Christian Blackshaw 1995
Howard Blake OBE 1989
Bonaventura Bottone 1998
Valerie Botwright 2011
Denis Bouriakov 2014
Timothy Bowers 2010
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent 1983
Douglas Boyd 1996
John Bradbury 2017
Nicholas Braithwaite 1978
James Brett 2014
Peter Bronder 2006
Christopher Brown 1992
Jeffrey Bryant 1998
Krystyna Budzynska 2012
Susan Bullock 1997
Iain Burnside 1996
Norma Burrowes 1992
David Butt 1975
Ruth Byrchmore 2012
George Caird 1989
Helen Callus 2014
Alexander Cameron 1972
Karel Chichon 2016
Allan Clayton 2017
Jo Cole 2016
John Constable 1986
Raymond Cooper 2003
David Corkhill 2005
Roger Coull 1998
Nigel Coxe 1968
Simon Crawford-Phillips 2010
Marcia Crayford 1989
Lucy Crowe 2014
David Cullen 2008
Diana Cummings 1983
Colin Currie 2008
Florence Daguerre De Hureaux 2013
Nicholas Daniel 1997
Jonathan Darlington 2007
Iestyn Davies MBE 2012
Neal Davies 2003
Odaline De La Martinez 1990
Rohan De Saram 1991
Rohan De Silva 2015
Richard Deakin 2003
Peter Dixon 2005
Kit Downes 2019
Deirdre Dundas-Grant 1989
Michael Dussek 1998
Philip Eastop 2000
Gregory Ellis 2004
Christopher Elton 1982
Kenneth Essex 2000
Richard Farnes 2010
Brian Ferneyhough 1998
Catrin Finch 2010
Lyn Fletcher 2007
Andrew Foster-Williams 2011
Philip Fowke 1987
Jennifer France 2021
Hadley Fraser 2016
Amelia Freedman OBE 1986
Rodney Friend MBE 1972
Rumon Gamba 2017
Thomas Gambold 1975
Philip Gammon 2002
Edward Gardner OBE 2008
Lesley Garrett CBE 1995
Timothy Gill 2008
Sir Clive Gillinson 1995
Dame Evelyn Glennie DBE 1992
Christopher Glynn 2020
Jill Gomez 1986
Stephen Goss 2018
Rachel Gough 2002
Lucy Gould 2020
Thomas Gould 2017
John Gray 1984
Bernard Gregor-Smith 1983
Edward Gregson 1990
Benjamin Grosvenor 2016
Mary Hammond 1998
Gareth Hancock 2014
Lionel Handy 2010
Kathryn Harries 1990
Paul Harris 2010
Ruth Harte MBE 1971
Lesley Hatfield 2008
Ian Herbert 1998
Robert Hill 1989
Ian Hobson 1993
Daniel Hope 2007
William Houghton 1983
Monica Huggett 1993
Robert Hughes 1996
Gareth Hulse 2001
Laurence Jackson 2013
William Jackson 2002
Sir Karl Jenkins OBE 2003
Katherine Jenkins OBE 2021
Philip Jenkins 1983
Graham Johnson OBE 1984
Martin Jones 1983
Trevor Jones 2006
Skaila Kanga 1994
Miloš Karadaglić 2015
Jonathan Kelly 2004
Thomas Kelly 2003
Frederick Kempf 2006
Elizabeth Kenny 2011
Stewart Kershaw 1988
Diana Ketler 2016
Sunwook Kim 2019
Beryl Kimber OBE 1963
Gillian Knight 2000
Josephine Knight 2010
Gabriel Kwok 2003
Sholto Kynoch 2018
Katherine Lacy 2015
Simone Lamsma 2019
Sophia Langdon 2018
Brian Large 1991
Carmine Lauri 2006
Peter Lea-Cox 1984
Iain Ledingham 1996
Annie Lennox OBE 1997
Michael Lewin 1990
Jiwu Li 2013
Jack Liebeck 2018
Konstantin Lifschitz 2004
William Llewellyn MBE 1967
Frank Lloyd 2001
Dame Felicity Lott DBE 1986
Henry Lowther 2011
John Lubbock 1999
Joanna MacGregor CBE 1994
Lennox Mackenzie OBE 2015
Susanna Mälkki 2010
Gareth Malone OBE 2013
Christopher Maltman 2005
Andrew Manze 1999
Philip Martin 1998
Anne Mason 2008
Lorna McGhee 2010
John McLeod CBE 1989
Leigh-Phillips Melrose 2020
Linda Merrick 2018
Joseph Middleton 2018
Nicholas Miller 2019
Graham Mitchell 2020
Chi-yu Mo 2019
Gabriela Montero 2007
Ludovic Morlot 2014
Simon Mulligan 2006
Mary Nash 1979
Steven Naylor 2000
Mary Nelson 2019
Paul Neville LVO, OBE 1972
Celia Nicklin 1985
Feng Ning 2014
Chi-chi Nwanoku MBE 1998
Michael Nyman 1991
Martin Outram 2001
Martin Owen 2006
David Owen Norris 1988
Dee Palmer 1994
Roxanna Panufnik 2021
Jonathan Papp 2014
David Parry 2014
Paul Patterson 1980
Daniel Pienaar 2014
Robert Plane 2014
Jonathan Plowright 2013
Quentin Poole 2004
Claire Powell 1993
Geoffrey Pratley 1977
Simon Preston CBE 1974
John Price 1997
Keith Puddy 1995
Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE 1984
Christopher Redgate 2015
David Rendall 1987
Francis Rhys 1977
Max Richter 2019
Jean Rigby 1989
Elizabeth Ritchie 2007
David Robertson 2001
David Robinson 1980
Anthony Robson 2000
Martin Ronchetti 1987
Anthony Rooley 1990
Barry Rose OBE 1989
David Russell 1997
Michael Schonwandt 2001
Anneke Scott 2018
Dominic Seldis 2010
James Shearman 2015
Philip Sheppard 2010
Peter Sheppard Skærved 2013
Brindley Sherratt 2010
Ksenija Sidorova 2021
Kenneth Sillito 1971
Paul Silverthorne 1995
Gwilym Simcock 2016
Dennis Simons 1979
Nicholas Skilbeck 2007
Gareth Small 2014
David Smith 1995
Pete Smith 2010
Howard Snell 2001
Ashley Solomon 2017
Charles Spencer 2000
Richard Steele 1998
Rodney Stewart 1989
Meyer Stolow 1975
David Strange 1982
Richard Suart 2004
Yevgeny Sudbin 2010
Stanley Sulzmann 2008
Hilary Summers 2018
Ingrid Surgenor 2001
David Theodore 1993
Augusta Read Thomas 2004
Peter Thomas 1988
Michael Thompson 1988
Marianne Thorsen 2005
Martino Tirimo 1979
Patsy Toh 1995
Bramwell Tovey 2004
Graham Treacher 1963
Robin Tritschler 2020
Matthew Truscott 2012
Valerie Tryon 1984
Rachel Tucker 2017
Sarah Tynan 2019
Elizabeth Vaughan 1965
Karen Vaughan 2014
Christopher Ventris 2003
Ilan Volkov 2005
Adam Walker 2016
John Wallace CBE 1990
Elizabeth Wallfisch 1997
Raphael Wallfisch 1989
Christopher Warren-Green 1989
Richard Watkins 1992
Nadine Weissmann 2017
Andrew West 2019
David White 2009
Jillian White 1994
Philip White 2001
Denis Wick 2002
Mark Wigglesworth 2002
Mark Wildman 1994
John Willan 2015
Llyr Williams 2011
Sioned Williams 2003
Christopher Willis 2012
David Wilson-Johnson 1988
Robert Winn 2011
James Wood 2000
Adam Woolf 2015
Jonathan Woolf 2013
Xuefei Yang 2012
Fabio Zanon 2014
Limited to 300 distinguished musicians who did not attend the Academy.
Emanuel Abbuhl 2010
Dame Jenny Abramsky DBE 2002
Salvatore Accardo 1988
John Adams 2004
Pierre-Laurent Aimard 2006
John Mark Ainsley 2014
Sir Thomas Allen CBE 1988
Marin Alsop 2011
Martha Argerich 2001
Sir Richard Armstrong CBE 1984
Vladimir Ashkenazy 1972
Eric Aubier 2016
Dame Janet Baker CH 1969
Michael Ball OBE 2020
Alison Balsom 2017
Daniel Barenboim 1975
Cecilia Bartoli 1999
Yuri Bashmet 1989
Django Bates 2000
Joshua Bell 2000
Nicola Benedetti CBE 2015
George Benjamin CBE 2003
William Bennett OBE 1988
Teresa Berganza 2002
Lisa Beznosiuk 2006
Harry Bicket 2018
Daphne Boden 1999
Florian Boesch 2016
Barbara Bonney 2001
Richard Bonynge 2015
Ian Bostridge CBE 2002
Maurice Bourgue 1990
Ian Bousfield 2002
Keith Bragg 2006
Adrian Brendel 2020
Alfred Brendel Hon KBE 1972
Charles Brett 1990
Dudley Bright 2003
Ian Brown 2019
Bine Bryndorf 2019
Semyon Bychkov 2015
John Caird 2019
David Cairns CBE 2000
Joseph Calleja 2016
John Carewe 1983
Gary Carpenter 2013
Colin Carr 2001
Jose Carreras 1990
Philip Cashian 2019
Riccardo Chailly 1996
Michael Chance CBE 2014
Geoffrey Chard 1984
Levon Chilingirian 2015
William Christie 2003
Kyung Chung 1991
Nicholas Cleobury 1985
Robert Cohen 2010
Michael Collins MBE 1997
Dame Sarah Connolly DBE 2019
Imogen Cooper CBE 1997
John Copley CBE 1999
Christopher Cowie 2018
Michael Cox 2019
Laurence Cummings 2005
Paul Daniel CBE 1999
Stephen Darlington MBE 2016
Mark David 2015
Ryland Davies 2012
Sir Andrew Davis CBE 1991
Carl Davis CBE 2020
Brett Dean 2020
Joyce DiDonato 2014
Steve Doane 2014
Placido Domingo 2000
Dave Douglas 2012
Jonathan Dove CBE 2013
Julius Drake 1999
Laurence Dreyfus FBA 1995
Gustavo Dudamel 2012
Sian Edwards 2018
James Ehnes 2012
Sir Mark Elder CBE 1984
Christoph Eschenbach 2001
Paul Esswood 1990
Margaret Faultless 2016
Iván Fischer 2013
Renee Fleming 2000
I P Fletcher 1966
Juan Diego Flórez 2013
Diane Forlano 1999
Nuccia Focile 2021
Ian Fountain 2014
Pamela Frank 2019
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE 1997
Reinhold Friedrich 2011
Mauricio Fuks 1999
Peter Gabriel 2009
Sir James Galway OBE 1999
Sir John Eliot Gardiner 1992
Valery Gergiev 2000
Kenneth Gilbert 1988
Amanda Glauert 2007
Jane Glover CBE 2014
Kurt-Hans Goedicke 1997
Alexander Goehr 1974
Matthias Goerne 2001
Richard Goode 2017
Clio Gould 1999
Adam Guettel 2019
Emmanuelle Haim 2007
Sir Bernard Haitink Hon KBE 1973
Thomas Hampson 1996
Barbara Hannigan 2020
Hakan Hardenberger 1992
Patrick Harrild 1993
Maurice Hasson 1989
Joji Hattori 2003
Neil Heyde 2013
Edward Higginbottom 2014
David Hill MBE 2010
Dave Holland 2016
Heinz Holliger 1975
Peter Holtslag 2013
Stephen Hough CBE 2003
Elgar Howarth 1991
Anne Howells 2008
Kun Hu 2002
Steven Isserlis CBE 1995
Gundula Janowitz 2000
Sir Elton John CH CBE 1997
Dame Gwyneth Jones 1980
Karen Jones 2020
Timothy Jones 2014
Kim Kashkashian 2019
Jonas Kaufmann 2012
Sir Simon Keenlyside 2007
Sir Nicholas Kenyon CBE 2005
Christopher Keyte 1984
Angelika Kirchschlager 2009
Dame Emma Kirkby OBE 1999
Ralph Kirshbaum 2017
Evgeny Kissin 2005
Lutz Kohler 1997
Ton Koopman 1990
Stephen Kovacevich 1981
Gidon Kremer 1999
Nicolas Kynaston 2010
Piers Lane 1994
Lang Lang 2012
Hugh Laurie 2018
Colin Lawson CBE 2015
Anthony Legge 2007
Karl Leister 1987
Raymond Leppard CBE 1978
Paul Lewis CBE 2011
John Lill 1986
Magnus Lindberg 2001
Tasmin Little OBE 2016
Robert Lloyd 1999
James Lockhart 1993
Matt Lucas 2020
Sir David Lumsden Hon FRCO 1978
Radu Lupu CBE 2000
Benjamin Luxon CBE 1980
William Lyne 1999
Yo-Yo Ma 1992
Matthew MacDonald 2014
Neil Mackie CBE 2011
Sir James MacMillan KBE 2007
Mischa Maisky 2019
Angela Malsbury 1991
Joy Mammen 1981
Andrew Marriner 1994
Wynton Marsalis 1996
Malcolm Martineau OBE 1998
Valerie Masterson CBE 1994
Colin Matthews 2010
Karita Mattila 2011
Sir Paul McCartney 2008
Audra McDonald 2018
Susan McDonald 2008
Julia McKenzie 2005
Patrick Messina 2016
Colin Metters 1995
Tess Miller-Skeaping 1999
Yvonne Minton CBE 1975
Dame Ann Murray DBE 1998
Owen Murray 1993
Thea Musgrave 1976
Riccardo Muti 1981
Anne-Sophie Mutter 1986
Kent Nagano 1998
Martin Neary LVO 1988
Sheila Nelson 1997
Neresheim Abbey and Town 2016
Horst Neumann 1990
James Newton Howard 2008
Sir Roger Norrington CBE 1988
James O'Donnell 2001
Dennis O'Neill 2006
Robin O'Neill 2015
John Orford 1989
Steven Osborne 2015
Emmanuel Pahud 2007
Sir Antonio Pappano 2007
Ian Partridge 1996
Gyorgy Pauk 1990
Aleksandar Pavlovic 2006
Antony Pay 1986
Murray Perahia 1985
Neil Percy 2010
Itzhak Perlman 1993
Igor Petrushevski 2013
Trevor Pinnock CBE 1984
Stephen Plaistow 2003
Rachel Podger 2005
Joseph Polisi 1992
Sir David Pountney CBE 2012
Sir Curtis Price KBE 1993
Mark Racz 2014
Dame Janet Ritterman DBE 1995
Hannah Roberts 2018
Christopher Robinson CVO CBE 1980
Hartmut Rohde 2008
Sylvia Rosenberg 2003
Patrick Russill 1993
Matthew Ryan 2014
Esa-Pekka Salonen 2003
Sir András Schiff KBE 1989
Claude-Michel Schönberg 2017
Peter Schreier 2000
Anoushka Shankar 2020
Howard Skempton 2012
Leonard Slatkin 1993
Nick Smart 2015
Maureen Smith 2020
Philip Smith 2005
Stephen Sondheim 1992
Simon Standage 2010
Imelda Staunton CBE 2018
Richard Stokes 2008
Kathryn Stott 2013
Jeremy Summerly 2006
Anna Sweeney 2001
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider 2020
Gabor Takacs-Nagy 2012
Richard Taruskin 2001
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa DBE 2003
Sir Bryn Terfel CBE 2000
Christian Thielemann 2010
David Titterington 2008
Yan-Pascal Tortelier 2002
Sir John Tusa 1999
Dame Mitsuko Uchida DBE 2009
Mark Van De Wiel 2017
Jorgen van Rijen 2018
Julia Varady 2001
Tamas Vasary 1992
Josephine Veasey CBE 1972
Maxim Vengerov 1997
Roger Vignoles 1984
Radovan Vlatkovic 2014
Anne Sofie von Otter 2002
Sarah Walker 2015
Angus Watson 1987
Lillian Watson 2012
Dame Gillian Weir DBE 1989
Judith Weir 1997
Frank Wibaut 1989
Jonathan Willcocks 1996
John Williams OBE 1989
John Williams 1995
John Wilson 2021
Helmut Winschermann 1992
Norma Winstone 2013
Catherine Wyn-Rogers 2018
Francesca Zambello 1999
Pinchas Zukerman 1976
The title of Honorary Trustee is awarded to retired Independent Members of the Governing Body to recognise their distinguished service to the Academy.
Sir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG
The Right Honourable Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill Kt CVO PC
Sir Howard Davies Hon FRAM
Matthew Ferrey Hon FRAM
Lesley Garrett CBE FRAM
Sam Gordon Clarke CBE
Lady Heywood
Professor Sir Barry Ife CBE FKC FBbk Hon FRAM FRCM FGS
Steven Isserlis CBE Hon FRAM
The Right Honourable The Lord Lloyd of Berwick PC DL
Dame Felicity Lott DBE FRAM FRCM
George Nissen CBE
Robert Ogden Hon FRAM
Professor Roger Parker Hon FRAM
Laurel Powers-Freeling
Christopher Purvis CBE
Sir John Ritblat
Sir Simon Robey
Lady Elise Becket Smith OBE Hon FRAM
Sir Martin Smith Hon FRAM
Nicholas Snowman OBE
John Suchet
Anthony Travis Hon FRAM
John Willan FRAM FRSA FCA
Julia Yorke Hon FRAM