Presented annually at the Thornton School of Music Honors Convocation, the Outstanding Alumnus Award is conferred upon a Thornton graduate whose artistic or scholarly accomplishments both reflect the ideals of the school and have furthered the art of music.
2022 Lori Custodero DMA ’97
2021 No Outstanding Alumnus selected
2020 No Outstanding Alumnus selected
2019
2018 Billy Childs ’79
2017 Elizabeth Rowe ’96
2016 Bear McCreary ’02
2015 Laurence Lesser
2014 Andrew Norman ’02, MM ’04
2013 Diane Wittry ’83, MM ’85
2012 Nick Stoubis ’97, MM ’00
2011 Vince Mendoza MM ’85
2010 David Newman ’76, MM ’82
2009 Doug Lowry MM ’76, MM ’78
2008 Fred Vogler ’88
2007 Bruce Sledge MM ’99
2006 Gene Pokorny ’75
2005 William Dawson Hall MA ’59, DMA ’69
2004 H. Royce Saltzman DMA ’64
2003 Andrew York MM ’86
2002 Grant Gershon ’85
2001 Thomas Mathiesen DMA ’71
2000 Earle Patriarco MM ’92
1999 Morten Lauridsen ’66, MA ’68, DMA ’74
1998 Rodney Gilfry MM ’83
1997 Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
1996 Tommy Stevens ’68
1995 Robert Rodriguez DMA ’74
1994 Cynthia Phelps ’78
1993 Jonathan Mack ’71, MA ’74
1992 Lee Ritenour ’72
1991 Mary Ann Bonino MA ’63, PhD ’71
1990 Thomas Hampson ’80
1989 Dale Warland PhD ’65
1988 Bruce Broughton ’67
1987 Christopher Parkening ’69
1986 Ralph Grierson ’66, MA ’68
1985 Bruce Ferden MM ’73
1984 Carol Neblett ’60
1983 Eloise Haldeman ’60, MM ’68
1982 Paul Cooper DMA ’56
1981 Henry Holt ’60
1980 Martin Katz ’66
1979 Nathaniel Rosen ’71
1978 Marilyn Horne ’53
1977 Donald Dustin ’60
1976 Leonard Stein DMA ’65
1975 John Deichman ’49, MA ’56
1974 Malcolm Hamilton DMA ’66
1973 Wallace Berry ’49, PhD ’56
1972 Akira Endo ‘62, MM ’64
1971 Marilyn Neeley Gerle ’67
1970 Michael Tilson Thomas ’67, MM ’76
1969 Brandon Mehrle DMA ’60
1968 Sr. Mary Mark Zeyen MA ’49
1967 Ralph Linsley MA ’54
1966 William Hartshorn
1965 Charles Hirt MA ’46
1964 Ralph E. Rush MM ’46
1963 Robert M. Trotter PhD ’57
1962 Henry Lewis ’53
1961 Pauline Alderman MA ’46