George Rochberg - Awards and Recognitions

Awards and Recognitions

• 1950-1951 - Fulbright Fellow
• 1950-52 - Fellow of American Academy in Rome
• 1952 - George Gershwin Memorial Award for Night Music
• 1956 - Society for the Publication of American Music award for String Quartet No. 1
• 1956 - Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1959 - First prize in Italian ISCM International Music Competition for Cheltenham Concerto
• 1961 - Naumburg Recording Award for Symphony No. 2
• 1962 - Honorary degree from Montclair State University
• 1964 - Honorary degree from University of the Arts
• 1966 - Prix Italia for Black Sounds
• 1966 - Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1972 - Naumburg Chamber Composition Award for String Quartet No. 3
• 1972-74 - National Endowment for the Arts Grants
• 1979 - Kennedy Center Friedheim Award for String Quartet No. 4
• 1980 - Honorary degree from University of Michigan
• 1985 - Honorary degree from University of Pennsylvania
• 1985 - Gold Medal at Brandeis Creative Arts Awards
• 1986 - Lancaster Symphony Composers Award
• 1987 - University of Bridgeport's Andre and Clara Mertens Contemporary Composer Award
• 1987 - Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
• 1988 - Honorary degree from Curtis Institute of Music
• 1991 - Bellagio artist in residence
• 1994 - Honorary degree from Miami University
• 1997 - Longy School of Music Distinguished Achievement Award
• 1998 - Grammy Award (nominated) "String Quartet No. 3"
• 1999 - ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2004 - Grammy Award (nominated) "String Quartet No. 5"
• 2006 - Deems Taylor Award for The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music