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Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art
Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art
From 1978 to 2023, the Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art honored individuals with a lifetime of significant contributions to the professional choral art. Awardees were Chorus America members of national stature who worked with fully professionalized choruses.
Michael Korn, one of the founders of Chorus America and its first president (1977 to 1985), received this special namesake citation in 1986. Korn was artistic director and conductor of The Philadelphia Singers, which he founded in 1972, and associate conductor and chorus master of the Opera Company of Philadelphia. In 1991, in response to Korn's untimely death at the age of 44, this citation was renamed The Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art.
| 2023 | Robert Geary |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Grant Gershon |
| 2021 | Harry Christophers |
| 2020 | Kent Tritle |
| 2019 | Brad Wells |
| 2018 | Ragnar Bohlin |
| 2017 | Donald Nally |
| 2016 | Robert De Cormier |
| 2015 | Craig Hella Johnson |
| 2014 | Jon Washburn |
| 2013 | Christopher Bell |
| 2012 | Duain Wolfe |
| 2011 | Robert Porco |
| 2010 | Robert L. Simpson |
| 2009 | Alan Harler |
| 2008 | John Alexander |
| 2007 | Joseph Jennings |
| 2006 | American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) |
| 2005 | Libby Larsen |
| 2004 | Mary Lyons Earl Rivers |
| 2003 | Philip Brunelle |
| 2002 | Mary Deissler |
| 2001 | Marshall A. Rutter |
| 2000 | Paul Salamunovich |
| 1999 | Albert McNeil |
| 1998 | Vance George |
| 1997 | Richard Westenburg |
| 1996 | Louis Botto |
| 1995 | Dale Warland |
| 1994 | Alice Parker |
| 1993 | Dominick Argento |
| 1992 | Paul Hill |
| 1991 | Margaret Hawkins & R. Murray Schafer |
| 1990 | Ned Rorem |
| 1989 | Alfred Mann |
| 1988 | Doralene Davis |
| 1987 | Janice Kestler & Robert Page |
| 1986 | Michael Korn |
| 1985 | Lukas Foss & Walter Gould |
| 1984 | Todd Duncan & Gregg Smith |
| 1983 | Robert Shaw |
| 1982 | Jester Hairston |
| 1981 | Roger Wagner |
| 1980 | Margaret Hillis & Hugh Ross |
| 1979 | Fred Waring |
| 1978 | Thomas Pyle |