Honorary Doctors of Music

Honorary Doctors of Music conferred since 1955

2024    Anouska Shankar
2019    Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
2019    Yo-Yo Ma
2017    Judith Weir
2016    Arvo Pärt
2014    Sir Harrison Birtwistle
2013    Murray Perahia
2011    Sir George Martin
2009    Dame Mitsuko Uchida
2008    Dame Emma Kirkby
2007    Daniel Barenboim
2005    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
2003    Plácido Domingo
2001    Dame Felicity Lott
1999    Sir Simon Rattle
1997    Sir Charles Mackerras
1995    Dr Alfred Dürr
1994    Klaus Tennstedt
1993    Isaac Stern
1992    Dame Joan Sutherland
1992    Sviatoslav Richter
1988    Bernard Haitink
1988    Paul Sacher
1987    Pierre Boulez
1986    Sir Reginald Goodall
1985    Sir Geraint Evans
1984    Jacqueline du Pré
1984    Dame Eva Turner
1983    Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
1983    Alfred Brendel
1981    Sir Peter Pears
1980    Mstislav Rostropovich
1979    Sir Adrian Boult (DLitt)
1978    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
1978    Herbert von Karajan
1977    Rosalyn Tureck
1976    Sir Frederick Ashton
1975    Dame Janet Baker
1975    Paul Tortelier
1972    Andrés Segovia
1972    Sir Georg Solti
1970    Sir Lennox Berkeley
1969    Sir Donald Keith Falkner
1968    Nadia Boulanger
1967    Sir Michael Tippett
1963    Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
1962    Yehudi Menuhin
1960    Zoltán Kodály
1959    Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias
1958    Francis Poulenc
1958    Dmitri Shostakovich
1956    John Christie

The above list represents all the honorary Doctors of Music conferred since the foundation of the modern Faculty of Music. But for many centuries the University has chosen to honour the most distinguished musicians of the day by the bestowal of the D.Mus. These include Handel, Haydn and Richard Strauss.