Gramophone Awards: Lifetime Achievement
~ Artist award
Artists
| # | Artist | Type | Gender | Area | Begin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Joan Sutherland (soprano) | Person | Female | Australia | 1926-11-07 |
| 1992 | Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Person | Male | Hungary | 1912-10-21 |
| 1993 | Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau (baritone) | Person | Male | Germany | 1925-05-28 |
| 1994 | Klaus Tennstedt (conductor) | Person | Male | Germany | 1926-06-06 |
| 1995 | Sir Michael Tippett (composer) | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 1905-01-02 |
| 1996 | Yehudi Menuhin (violinist) | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 1916-04-22 |
| 1997 | Мстислав Ростропович (Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist/conductor) | Person | Male | Russia | 1927-03-27 |
| 1998 | Menahem Pressler (pianist) | Person | Male | Germany | 1923-12-16 |
| 1999 | Isaac Stern (violinist) | Person | Male | United States | 1920-07-21 |
| 2000 | Carlo Bergonzi (tenor) | Person | Male | Italy | 1924-07-13 |
| 2001 | Victoria de los Ángeles (Spanish soprano) | Person | Female | Spain | 1923-11-01 |
| 2002 | Mirella Freni (soprano) | Person | Female | Italy | 1935-02-27 |
| 2003 | Leontyne Price (soprano) | Person | Female | United States | 1927-02-10 |
| 2004 | London Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | United Kingdom | 1904 | |
| 2005 | Marilyn Horne (American operatic mezzo-soprano) | Person | Female | United States | 1934-01-16 |
| 2006 | Charles Mackerras (Australian conductor) | Person | Male | Australia | 1925-11-17 |
| 2007 | Montserrat Caballé (soprano) | Person | Female | Spain | 1933-04-12 |
| 2008 | André Previn (pianist, conductor, composer, arranger) | Person | Male | United States | 1929-04-06 |
| 2009 | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Person | Male | Austria | 1929-12-06 |
| 2010 | Alfred Brendel (Austrian pianist) | Person | Male | Austria | 1931-01-05 |
| 2011 | Dame Janet Baker (mezzo‐soprano and alto) | Person | Female | United Kingdom | 1933-08-21 |
| 2012 | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Person | Male | Italy | 1933-06-26 |
| 2013 | Julian Bream | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 1933-07-15 |
| 2014 | James Galway (flautist) | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 1939-12-08 |
| 2015 | Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Person | Male | Netherlands | 1929-03-04 |
| 2016 | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) | Person | Female | Germany | 1928-03-16 |
| 2017 | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) | Person | Female | New Zealand | 1944-03-06 |
| 2018 | Neeme Järvi (Estonian conductor) | Person | Male | Estonia | 1937-06-07 |
| 2019 | Emma Kirkby (soprano) | Person | Female | United Kingdom | 1949-02-26 |
| 2020 | Itzhak Perlman (violinist and conductor) | Person | Male | United States | 1945-08-31 |
| 2021 | Gundula Janowitz (soprano) | Person | Female | Germany | 1937-08-02 |
| 2022 | Daniel Barenboim (pianist and conductor) | Person | Male | Argentina | 1942-11-15 |
| 2023 | Felicity Lott (soprano) | Person | Female | United Kingdom | 1947-05-08 |
| 2024 | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor and pianist) | Person | Male | United States | 1944-12-21 |
Relationships
| subseries of: | Gramophone Classical Music Awards |
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