Honorary Degrees
Honorary degrees are granted to those of great scholarly or artistic achievement. They must be approved by the Faculty Committee on Honorary Degrees, the President of the University, and the Board of Trustees. For a complete list of honorary degrees awarded by the University of Rochester, please click here.
2007
Marian McPartland
2006
Joseph Turrin
2001
John T. Williams
2000
Catharine (Gleason) Crozier
1998
Teresa Stratas
Christoph Von Dohnanyi
1997
Milton Babbitt
1996
Robert D. Levin
Norio Ohga
David Joel Zinman
1994
Leonard Slatkin
1990
Maxwell Lemuel Roach
1989
Nicholas Slonimsky
1988
Fredrick Fennell
William Warfield
1985
Charles Frank Mangione
1981
Donald J. Grout
1978
Allen Forte
1976
Aaron Copland
1973
Edward T. Cone
Fernand Gillet
1972
Krzysztof Penderecki
William Schuman
Rudolph Serkin
Isaac Stern
Shinichi Suzuki
1959
Joseph Edgar Maddy
1958
Alan Hovhaness
1956
Ernest MacMillan
1955
Harold Spivacke
1954
Herbert Elwell
1952
Guy Fraser Harrison
1951
Fred Waring
1949
Ettore Massoleni
1948
Victor Alessandro
1947
Douglas Stuart Moore
1946
Ray Ellsworth Harris
1944
Quincy Porter
1942
Ernest Hutcheson
1941
Frederick August Stock
1940
Serge Koussevitsky
1939
Deems Taylor
1938
Rudolph Ganz
1934
Leo Sowerby
1933
Randall Thompson
1932
Daniel Gregory Mason
1929
Earl Vincent Moore