American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Prize (1980-1989)

1980: Malcolm Peyton

1980: Donald Grantham

1980: Eugene O’Brien

1980: Lawrence L. Widdoes

1981: Edwin Dugger

1981: Meyer Kupferman

1981: Robert Erickson

1981: Ursula Mamlok

1982: Douglas Allanbrook

1982: MacDonald Harris

1982: George Walker

1982: Ramon Zupko

1983: Bernard Rands

1983: Bruce Saylor

1983: Joan Tower

1983: William Thomas McKinley

1984: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

1984: James Dashow

1984: John Melby

1984: William Kraft

1985: Donald J. Erb

1985: Ezra Sims

1985: Gheorghe Costinescu

1985: John Stewart McLennan

1986: Martin Boykan

1986: Martin Brody

1986: Sheila Silver

1986: Wayne Peterson

1987: Hugh Aitken

1987: Thomas E. Barker

1987: Dennis Riley

1987: Joel H. Hoffman

1988: Hale Smith

1988: Chinary Ung

1988: Fred Lerdahl

1988: Maurice Wright

1989: John Corigliano

1989: Karel Husa

1989: Michael Gandolfi

1989: Shulamit Ran