AVS Career Achievement Award
for Distinguished Contributions to Viola Performance and/or Teaching
- Geraldine Walther, 2024
- 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
- Martha Carapetyan, 2024
- Pamela Goldsmith, 2024
- Nokuthula Ngwenyama, 2024
- Melia Watras, 2024
- 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
- William Harris Lee, 2024
- Katrin Meidell, 2024
- 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
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:
- Hillary Herndon, 2024
- 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
