Beverly Sills - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

Sills received many honors and awards from the 1970s through her final years. Here are a list of her major awards, divided by category:

• Grammy Award Nominations:
  • 1969 - Scenes and Arias from French Opera;
  • 1970 - Mozart and Strauss Arias;
  • 1976 - Music of Victor Herbert (WINNER)

• Emmy Award Nominations:
  • 1975 - Profile in Music: Beverly Sills, Festival '75 (WINNER);
  • 1977 - Sills and Burnett at the Met;
  • 1978 - Lifestyles with Beverly Sills (WINNER);
  • 1980 - Beverly Sills in Concert;
  • 1981 - Great Performances: Beverly! Her Farewell Performance

• Honorary Doctorates in Music:
  • 1972 - Temple University;
  • 1973 - New York University & New England Conservatory of Music;
  • 1974 - Harvard University
  • 1975 - California Institute of the Arts

• Other Music-related awards:
  • 1970 - Musical America - Musician of the Year;
  • 1971 - Inducted as a National Patroness of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity on May 1
  • 1972 - Edison Award - Manon recording;
  • 1973 - Handel Medallion from New York City for artistic achievement;
  • 1979 - Recording Industry of America Cultural Award;
  • 1980 - Golden Baton, American Symphony Orchestra League;
  • 1985 - Kennedy Center Honors;
  • 1990 - National Medal of Arts from National Endowment for the Arts;
  • 1996 - The 2nd Annual Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities
  • 2005 - Beverly Sills Artist Award established by the Metropolitan Opera ($50,000 annual award);
  • 2007 - Inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame

• Charitable and Humanitarian Awards:
  • 1979 - Pearl S. Buck Women's Award;
  • 1980 - Presidential Medal of Freedom;
  • 1981 - Barnard College Medal of Distinction;
  • 1984 - Charles S. Hughes Gold Medal Award - Nat. Conf. of Christians and Jews;
  • 1985 - Gold Medal from National Institute of Social Sciences