Honours

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

James Baillieu 2021

Inon Barnatan 2017

Emma Bell 2007

Elinor Bennett 2006

Michael Berkeley CBE 1996

Emily Beynon 2002

Judith Bingham 2021

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

David Butt Philip 2022

Ruth Byrchmore 2012

George Caird 1989

Helen Callus 2014

Karel Chichon 2016

Allan Clayton 2017

Jo Cole 2016

Jacob Collier 2022

Susan Collier 2021

John Constable 1986

Raymond Cooper 2003

David Corkhill 2005

Roger Coull 1998

Nigel Coxe 1968

Simon Crawford-Phillips 2010

Marcia Crayford 1989

Lucy Crowe OBE 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

Freddie De Tommaso 2022

Richard Deakin 2003

Allyson Devenish 2021

Helena Dix 2021

Peter Dixon 2005

Kit Downes 2019

Deirdre Dundas-Grant 1989

Michael Dussek 1998

Philip Eastop 2000

Gregory Ellis 2004

Christopher Elton 1982

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 CBE 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 CH 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

Susan Hallam 2022

Mary Hammond 1998

Lionel Handy 2010

Paul Harris 2010

Lesley Hatfield 2008

Jonathon Heyward 2022

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 CBE 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

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

Simon Lepper 2022

Michael Lewin 1990

Jiwu Li 2013

Jack Liebeck 2018

Konstantin Lifschitz 2004

Frank Lloyd 2001

Dame Felicity Lott DBE 1986

Henry Lowther 2011

John Lubbock OBE 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

Cliff Masterson 2021

Lorna McGhee 2010

Leigh-Phillips Melrose 2020

Professor Linda Merrick CBE FRAM FRNCM

Joseph Middleton 2018

Nicholas Miller 2019

Graham Mitchell 2020

Chi-yu Mo 2019

Gabriela Montero 2007

Ludovic Morlot 2014

Simon Mulligan 2006

Steven Naylor 2000

Mary Nelson 2019

Paul Neville LVO, OBE 1972

Celia Nicklin 1985

Feng Ning 2014

Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE 1998

Michael Nyman CBE 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

John Price 1997

Keith Puddy 1995

Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE 1984

Christopher Redgate 2015

David Rendall 1987

Francis Rhys MBE 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

David Strange MBE 1982

Richard Suart 2004

Yevgeny Sudbin 2010

Stanley Sulzmann 2008

Hilary Summers 2018

Ingrid Surgenor MBE 2001

David Theodore 1993

Augusta Read Thomas 2004

Peter Thomas 1988

Michael Thompson 1988

Marianne Thorsen 2005

Martino Tirimo 1979

Patsy Toh 1995

Graham Treacher 1963

Robin Tritschler 2020

Matthew Truscott 2012

Valerie Tryon CM 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 OBE 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 DBE 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

Lisa Beznosiuk 2006

Harry Bicket OBE 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

Dame Imogen Cooper DBE 1997

John Copley CBE 1999

Christopher Cowie 2018

Michael Cox 2019

Jamie Cullum 2022

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 CH CBE 1984

Cynthia Erivo 2021

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 CBE 1992

Valery Gergiev 2000

Amanda Glauert 2007

Dame Jane Glover DBE 2014

Kurt-Hans Goedicke 1997

Alexander Goehr 1974

Matthias Goerne 2001

Richard Goode 2017

Clio Gould 1999

Adam Guettel 2019

Hilary Hahn 2022

Emmanuelle Haim 2007

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

Sir Stephen Hough CBE 2003

Elgar Howarth 1991

Jakub Hrůša 2022

Kun Hu 2002

Steven Isserlis CBE 1995

Gundula Janowitz 2000

Sir Elton John CH CBE 1997

Dame Gwyneth Jones DBE 1980

Karen Jones 2020

Timothy Jones 2014

Kim Kashkashian 2019

Jonas Kaufmann 2012

Sir Simon Keenlyside CBE 2007

Sir Nicholas Kenyon CBE 2005

Christopher Keyte 1984

Angelika Kirchschlager 2009

Dame Emma Kirkby DBE 1999

Ralph Kirshbaum 2017

Evgeny Kissin 2005

Beverley Knight 2022

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

Paul Lewis CBE 2011

John Lill 1986

Magnus Lindberg 2001

Tasmin Little CBE 2016

Robert Lloyd 1999

James Lockhart 1993

Matt Lucas 2020

Benjamin Luxon CBE 1980

William Lyne CBE 1999

Yo-Yo Ma 1992

Matthew MacDonald 2014

Neil Mackie CBE 2011

Sir James MacMillan CBE 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 OBE 2010

Karita Mattila 2011

Sir Paul McCartney CH MBE 2008

Audra McDonald 2018

Susan McDonald 2008

Julia McKenzie CBE 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 CBE 1976

Riccardo Muti OMRI 1981

Anne-Sophie Mutter 1986

Kent Nagano GOQ MSM 1998

Martin Neary LVO 1988

Neresheim Abbey and Town 2016

Horst Neumann 1990

James Newton Howard 2008

Sir Roger Norrington CBE 1988

Dr James O’Donnell LVO KCSG Hon RAM 2001

Dennis O'Neill CBE 2006

Robin O'Neill 2015

John Orford 1989

Steven Osborne OBE 2015

Emmanuel Pahud 2007

Sir Antonio Pappano 2007

Ian Partridge CBE 1996

Kate Paterson 2022

Gyorgy Pauk 1990

Aleksandar Pavlovic 2006

Antony Pay 1986

Murray Perahia KBE 1985

Neil Percy 2010

Itzhak Perlman 1993

Igor Petrushevski 2013

Trevor Pinnock CBE 1984

Maria João Pires 2022

Stephen Plaistow 2003

Rachel Podger 2005

Joseph Polisi 1992

Tom Poster 2022

Sir David Pountney CBE 2012

Sir Curtis Price KBE 1993

Mark Racz 2014

Dame Janet Ritterman DBE FRSA 1995

Hannah Roberts 2018

Christopher Robinson CVO CBE 1980

Hartmut Rohde 2008

Sylvia Rosenberg 2003

Dame Patricia Routledge DBE 2021

Patrick Russill 1993

Matthew Ryan 2014

Esa-Pekka Salonen KBE 2003

Sir András Schiff KBE 1989

Claude-Michel Schönberg 2017

Anoushka Shankar 2020

Howard Skempton 2012

Leonard Slatkin 1993

Nick Smart 2015

Maureen Smith 2020

Philip Smith 2005

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

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ONZ CH DBE AC 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

Maxim Vengerov 1997

Roger Vignoles 1984

Radovan Vlatkovic 2014

Anne Sofie von Otter 2002

Sarah Walker 2015

Lillian Watson 2012

Dame Gillian Weir DBE 1989

Judith Weir CBE 1997

Frank Wibaut 1989

Jonathan Willcocks 1996

John Williams AO OBE 1989

John Williams KBE 1995

Tim Williams 2022

John Wilson 2021

Norma Winstone MBE 2013

Catherine Wyn-Rogers 2018

Francesca Zambello 1999

Pinchas Zukerman 1976

Limited to 100 distinguished individuals, who did not study at the Academy, who have given exceptional service to the Academy or the music profession in general.

Kathryn Adamson 2014

Clarence Adoo MBE 2019

Julia Allen 2002

Jack Anderson 1993

Frederick Archer 1991

Charles Beare OBE 1991

Peter Biddulph 1996

Keith Bradley 2010

Sir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG 1996

Sir Richard Brook OBE 2008

John Burgess 2016

Robin Butler 2018

The Rt Hon the Lord Robert Carnwath of Notting Hill CVO PC 1994

Brian Cox CBE FRS 2015

WR Crewdson 1980

Garfield Davies 1998

Sir Howard Davies 2010

Dame Vivien Duffield DBE 2003

Manfred Eicher 2018

Keith Erskine 1994

Matt Ferrey 2014

John Gilhooly CBE OSI 2007

Eugene Gomesche 2004

Sam Gordon Clark CBE 1991

Raymond Gubbay CBE 1989

Pater Gregor Hammes 2016

Richard Humphries 1995

Sir Barry Ife CBE 2001

Sam Jackson 2019

Aled Jones MBE 2014

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason 2021

The Rt Hon the Lord Anthony Lloyd of Berwick PC DL 1985

Kirsty MacDonald 2021

Sir Cameron Mackintosh 2013

Raffy Manoukian 2011

Kate McKiernan 2020

Gillian Moore CBE 2019

Richard Morris 2010

Elizabeth Muir-Lewis 2017

Nicola Mutton 2017

Cyril Needleman 1983

George Nissen CBE 1994

Robert Ogden

Paloma O'Shea Artiñano, 1st Marchioness of O'Shea 2006

Roger Parker 2012

Timothy Parker 2019

Sir Andrew Parmley KBE 2017

Laurel Powers-Freeling 2013

Frank Presland 2010

Jonathan Reekie CBE 2010

Anthony Jonathan Reizenstein 1994

Lady Jill Ritblat OBE 2011

Ian Ritchie CBE RA 2018

Sir Simon Robey 2009

The Rt Hon the Lord Jacob Rothschild OM GBE CVO 2004

Dame Susie Sainsbury DBE 2002

Jeremy Sams 2013

Guri Sandhu 2017

Peter Shellard 1994

Lady Elise Smith OBE

Sir Martin Smith

Janet Snowman FRSA 2011

Jill Spencer 2000

The Rt Hon the Lord Dennis Stevenson of Coddenham CBE DL 2010

Sir Ian Stoutzker CBE 2008

John Suchet OBE Hon FRAM

Martin Summers

The Rt Hon the Lord Jonathan Sumption OBE PC

Lady Teresa Sumption

Barry Supple CBE 2001

HRH The Duchess of Gloucester GCVO

Richard Trainor KBE 2017

Anthony Travis 2008

Ci Z Wang 2007

The Reverend John Wates OBE 2010

Duchess of Wellington 2022

Julian West 2019

David Whelton OBE 2016

Roger Wright 2022

Julia Yorke 2002

Wang Zhao 2007

Given to persons of conspicuous merit who are outstanding in the field of music or who have given exceptional service to the Royal Academy of Music. Nominations for this award have to be approved by the University of London.

John Adams 2015

Sir Thomas Allen CBE 2014

Daniel Barenboim 2010

Semyon Bychkov 2022

Christoph von Dohnányi 2013

Sir Mark Elder CBE 2012

Dave Holland 2020

Heinz Holliger 2017

James Newton Howard 2022

Sir Elton John CBE 2002

Quincy Jones 2015

Annie Lennox OBE 2017

Lin-Manuel Miranda 2021

György Pauk 2016

Trevor Pinnock CBE 2016

Sir Simon Rattle CBE 2011

Steve Reich 2014

Esa-Pekka Salonen 2009

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 Clark 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