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Members of Honour

IMC Members of Honor are chosen among the world's outstanding professionals, educators, performers and composers.

Claudio Abbado (Italy)
Pierre Boulez (France)
Leo Brouwer (Cuba)
José Carreras (Spain)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Germany)
Gengchen FU (China)
Awatef Abdel Karim Hussein (Egypt)
Richard Letts (Australia) - elected at 33rd General Assembly, October 21-22 2009
Ingvar Lidholm (Sweden)
J.H. Kwabena Nketia (Ghana)
Seiji Ozawa (Japan)
Krzysztof Penderecki (Poland)
Peter Schreier (Germany)
Ravi Shankar (India)
Rodion Shchedrin (Russia)
Tania Siver (Uruguay)
Einar Solbu (Norway)
Joan Sutherland (Australia)
Alica Terzian (Argentina)
Trân Van Khê (Vietnam)
Zuqiang WU (China)

Members of Honour who passed away:

Munir Bashir (1930-1997)
Karl Boehm (1894-1981)
Adrian Boult (1889-1983)
Luis Heitor Correa de Azevedo (1905-1992)
Frank Callaway (-2003)
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)
Alain Daniélou (1907-1994)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Lu Ji (1909-2002)
André Jurres (1912-2001)
Dimitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Aram Khatchaturian (1903-1978)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)
Gilles Lefebvre (1922-2001)
He Luting (1903-1999)
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
Frank Martin (1890-1974)
Robert Mayer (1880-1985)
Narayana Menon (d.1997)
Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)
Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)
Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003)
Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922-2000)
Mstislav Rostropovitch (1927-2007)
Paul Sacher (1906-1999)
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Isaac Stern (1920-2001)
Erich Stockmann (1926-2003)
Henryk Szeryng (1918-1988)
Shigeo Kishibe (1912-2005)
Li Huanzhi (1919-2000)
M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916-2004)
Lucrecia Kasilag (1917-2008)
Maureen Forrester (1930-2010)

Last Updated ( Monday, 06 September 2010 )

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