Grammy Trustees Award

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The Grammy Trustees Award is awarded by the Recording Academy to "individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording"

Through 1983, performers could also receive this award. This award is distinct from the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors performers.

Trustees Award Recipients

The following individuals have received Trustees Awards, listed by year.

Year	Recipient(s)
1967	Georg Solti & John Culshaw
1968	Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, Krzysztof Penderecki
1970	Robert Moog
1971	Chris Albertson, John Hammond, Larry Hiller, Paul Weston
1972	The Beatles
1977	Thomas Edison, Leopold Stokowski
1979	Goddard Lieberson, Frank Sinatra
1981	Count Basie, Aaron Copland
1983	Les Paul
1984	Béla Bartók
1985	Eldridge Johnson
1986	George & Ira Gershwin
1987	Harold Arlen, Emile Berliner, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
1989	Walt Disney, Quincy Jones, Cole Porter
1990	Dick Clark
1991	Milt Gabler, Berry Gordy, Sam Phillips
1992	Thomas A. Dorsey, Christine Farnon, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart
1993	Ahmet & Nesuhi Ertegün, W. C. Handy, George Simon
1994	Norman Granz
1995	Pierre Cossette
1996	George Martin, Jerry Wexler
1997	Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
1998	Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frances Preston, Richard Rodgers
1999	Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff
2000	Clive Davis, Phil Spector
2001	Arif Mardin, Phil Ramone
2002	Tom Dowd, Alan Freed
2003	Alan Lomax, New York Philharmonic
2004	Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Orrin Keepnews, Marian McPartland
2005	Hoagy Carmichael, Don Cornelius, Alfred Lion, Dr. Billy Taylor
2006	Chris Blackwell, Owen Bradley, Al Schmitt
2007	Estelle Axton, Cosimo Matassa, Stephen Sondheim