AVS Awards

AVS Career Achievement Award

for Distinguished Contributions to Viola Performance and/or Teaching

  • Marcus Thompson, 2022
  • Doris Preucil, 2021
  • Yizhak Schotten, 2021
  • George Taylor, 2021
  • Atar Arad, 2018
  • Heidi Castleman, 2018
  • Robert Vernon, 2016
  • Samuel Rhodes, 2014
  • Kazuhide Isomura, 2014
  • David Holland, 2012
  • Michael Tree, 2010
  • Raphael Hillyer, 2010
  • William Preucil, 2008
  • Robert Slaughter, 2006
  • Roland Vamos, 2004
  • Milton Katims, 2002
  • Walter Trampler, 1999 (posth.)
  • Paul Doktor, 1999 (posth.)
  • Karen Tuttle, 1997

Prior to 1997, the AVS Outstanding Achievement Plaque was awarded to the following individuals:

  • Atar Arad, 1995
  • Harold Klatz, 1995
  • Donald McInnes, 1995
  • Pamela Goldsmith, 1991
  • Franz Zeyringer, 1988

Dwight Pounds Service Award

for Lifetime Distinguished Service Contributions to the American Viola Society

  • David Dalton, 2022
  • Thomas Tatton, 2021
  • Dwight Pounds, 2014

Maurice W. Riley Award

for Distinguished Contributions to the Viola in Teaching, Scholarship, Composition, Philanthropy, or Service to the AVS

  • Elizabeth Stuen-Walker, 2022
  • Karen Ritscher, 2021
  • Shelly Beard, 2016
  • Timothy Deighton, 2016
  • Lynne Ramsey, 2014
  • James Dunham, 2012
  • John Graham, 2010
  • Yizhak Schotten, 2010
  • Martha Katz, 2010
  • Robert Vernon, 2010
  • Matthew Dane, 2008
  • Claudine Bigelow, 2006
  • Kathryn Steely, 2006
  • Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot, 2006
  • Heidi Castleman, 2004
  • Jeffrey Irvine, 2002
  • Peter Slowik, 2002
  • Thomas Tatton, 1999
  • Alan de Veritch, 1999
  • Dwight Pounds, 1997
  • Maurice Gardner, 1995
  • Ann Woodward, 1995
  • Myron Rosenblum, 1995
  • David Dalton, 1993

Founders Award

for Performance, Scholarship, Composition, Instrument Building, Philanthropy, or Service to the AVS

  • Hiroshi Iizuka, 2022
  • Peter Paul Prier, 2016
  • David Bynog, 2014
  • David Liptak, 2012
  • Marcus Thompson, 2012
  • Carol Rodland, 2012
  • George Taylor, 2012
  • Phillip Ying, 2012
  • Catherine Carroll, 2010
  • Masao Kawasaki, 2010
  • Michael Kimber, 2010
  • Dwight Pounds, 2010
  • Kathryn Steely, 2010
  • Nancy Buck, 2008
  • Nokuthula Ngwenyama, 2008
  • Michael Palumbo, 2008
  • Steven Kruse, 2006
  • Louise Zeitlin, 2006
  • Kim Kashkashian, 2004
  • Korey Konkol, 2004
  • Helen Callus, 2002
  • Catherine Forbes, 2002
  • Ellen Rose, 2002
  • Ann Frederking, 1999
  • Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot, 1999
  • Henry Janzen, 1999
  • Lisa Hirschmugl, 1999
  • Roger Myers, 1997

Honorary Members of the AVS

  • Carlos Aleixo dos Reis, 2022
  • Carlos María Solare, 2021
  • Pinchas Zukerman, 2018
  • Nobuko Imai, 2014
  • Tabea Zimmermann, 2014
  • Roberto Díaz, 2012
  • Joan Tower, 2008
  • Donald Maurice, 2007
  • Nancy Giles, 2006
  • Franz Beyer, 2004
  • Uta Lenkewitz-von Zahn, 2002
  • Allan Lee, 2001
  • Tully Potter, 2001
  • Gunter Ojstersek, 2000
  • Karen Tuttle, 2000
  • Franz Zeyringer, 2000
  • Harry Danks, 1997
  • Maurice Gardner, 1995
  • A. Baird Knechtel, 1995
  • Maurice Riley, 1990
  • Leila Riley, 1990
  • Rebecca Clarke, 1977

AVS Distinguished Service Awards

The AVS has granted awards for distinguished service, including the AVS Disinguished Service Citation, AVS Scroll of Distinguished Service, and Service Awards on behalf of the AVS, to the following individuals:

  • Kathryn Steely, 2018
  • Atar Arad, 1995
  • Laura Kuennen-Poper, 1995
  • Alan de Veritch, 1995
  • St. Paul Sunday Morning, 1995
  • Peter Slowik, 1993
  • Lisa Hirschmugl, 1993
  • William Preucil, 1993
  • Eric Chapman, 1993
  • Donna Dalton, 1993
  • Rosemary Glyde, 1991
  • Mary Arlin, 1991
  • Sheila McDonald, 1991
  • Emanuel Vardi, 1991
  • Lucille Taylor, 1989
  • Kristi Wilkerson, 1989
  • Charles Avsharian, 1989
  • Eric Chapman, 1989
  • Louis Kievman, 1989
  • Harold Klatz, 1989
  • Donald McInnes, 1989
  • Robert Oppelt, 1989
  • Joseph de Pasquale, 1989
  • Leila Riley, 1989
  • Thomas Tatton, 1989
  • Walter Trampler, 1989
  • Emanuel Vardi, 1989
  • Maurice Riley, 1987
  • Francis Tursi, 1987
  • Ann Woodward, 1987
  • USAF Symphony, 1987
  • David Dalton, 1985
  • A. Baird Knechtel, 1985
  • Dwight Pounds, 1985
  • Yizhak Schotten, 1985
  • Katherine Collier, 1985
  • Myron Rosenblum, 1983
  • Franz Zeyringer, 1983
  • Milton Katims, 1983
  • Lillian Fuchs, 1981
  • Louise Goldberg, 1977
  • William Primrose, 1975