MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS - Honors/Awards

A photo of the right profile of Muhal Richard Abrams playing the piano copyright 2014 Richarda Abrams

HONORS/AWARDS

2015 Doris Duke Artist Award

2015 Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa ,
DePaul University, School of Music and The Theatre School, DePaul University, Chicago, Il.

2015 Keynote Commencement Speaker, DePaul University School of Music and The Theatre School,
DePaul University, Chicago, Il.

2015 Proclaimed New York City Jazz Record's "Musician of the Year"

2014 Doris Duke Impact Award

2014 Walter Dyett Lifetime Achievement Award, Jazz Institute of Chicago

October 19, 2012 The BNY Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation,
The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.

May 16, 2012 Degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa ,
Columbia University, New York City

2010 NEA Jazz Master, National Endowment for the Arts

2010 Inducted into the Downbeat Magazine "Jazz Hall of Fame"

2008 USA Prudential Fellow, United States Artists

April 11, 1999 Muhal Richard Abrams Day in Chicago, proclamation presented by Richard M. Daley,
Mayor of the City of Chicago

1990 First Recipient of The JazzPar Prize, the grand international jazz award, Danish Jazz Center,
Copenhagen, Denmark 1990 First JazzPar Prize Photo