Grammy Trustees Award

The Grammy Trustees Award is awarded by The Recording Academy to "individuals who, during their careers in music, technology, and so on have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording".^[1] From 1983 onwards, performers could also receive this award. This award is distinct from the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors performers.^[2]

Trustees Award recipients

The following individuals have received Trustees Awards, listed by year.^[3]

Year	Recipient(s)	Ref.
1967	Georg Solti and John Culshaw
1968	Duke Ellington and 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 and 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 and Nesuhi Ertegun, W. C. Handy, George T. Simon
1994	Norman Granz
1995	Pierre Cossette
1996	George Martin, Jerry Wexler
1997	Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
1998	Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frances Preston, Richard Rodgers
1999	Kenneth Gamble and 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 and Carole King, Orrin Keepnews, Marian McPartland
2005	Hoagy Carmichael, Don Cornelius, Alfred Lion, Billy Taylor
2006	Chris Blackwell, Owen Bradley, Al Schmitt
2007	Estelle Axton, Cosimo Matassa, Stephen Sondheim
2008	Clarence Avant, Jac Holzman, Willie Mitchell
2009	George Avakian, Elliott Carter, Allen Toussaint
2010	Harold Bradley, Florence Greenberg, Walter C. Miller
2011	Al Bell, Wilma Cozart Fine, Bruce Lundvall
2012	Dave Bartholomew, Steve Jobs, Rudy Van Gelder
2013	Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Leonard and Phil Chess, Alan Livingston
2014	Ennio Morricone, Rick Hall, Jim Marshall	[4]
2015	Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Richard Perry, George Wein
2016	John Cage, Fred Foster, Chris Strachwitz
2017	Thom Bell, Mo Ostin, Ralph S. Peer
2018	Bill Graham, Seymour Stein, John Williams
2019	Lou Adler, Ashford & Simpson, Johnny Mandel
2020	Frank Buckley Walker, Ken Ehrlich, Philip Glass
2021	Ed Cherney, Benny Golson, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds
2023	Henry Diltz, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jim Stewart
2024	Peter Asher, DJ Kool Herc, Joel Katz
2025	Erroll Garner, Glyn Johns, Tania León	[5]