Achievement Awards

Every year since 1991 the National Flute Association has honored the best and the brightest of its colleagues with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The debut award went to Jean-Pierre Rampal; since that time, luminaries from Julius Baker to Sir James Galway have joined the ranks, along with recipients of the NFA's intermittent National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award. The Distinguished Service Award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated profound, dedicated service and commitment to the National Flute Association. 

We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 Achievement Awards. Please submit nominations below by 11:59pm Central US Time on Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

Listed below are past Lifetime Achievement Award and National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award winners.

• Patricia George, Lifetime Achievement Award
• Keith Underwood, Lifetime Achievement Award
• Jonathan Keeble, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award
• Robert Stallman, Posthumous Legacy Award

2022

For its 50th anniversary celebration in 2022, the NFA granted Golden Anniversary Awards in lieu of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award.

2020

These awardees were honored at the 2022 convention. 

• Karl "Fritz" Kraber, Lifetime Achievement Award
• Ransom Wilson, Lifetime Achievement Award
• Nancy Clew, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2019

• Emerson DeFord, Lifetime Achievement Award
• Susan Milan, Lifetime Achievement Award

2018

• András Adorján, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Eva Kingma, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• George Pope, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2017

• Ervin Monroe, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Laurie Sokoloff, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Linda Mintener, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2016

• Katherine Hoover, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• James Pellerite, Lifetime Achievement Award

2015

• Alexander Murray, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Harvey Sollberger, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Penelope Fischer, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2014

• Robert Dick, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Maxence Larrieu, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Patti Adams, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award
  

2013

• Barthold Kuijken, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Aurèle Nicolet, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Angeleita Floyd, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2012

• Betty Bang Mather, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Bonita Boyd, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Nancy Toff, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2011

• Carol Wincenc, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Trevor Wye, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Katherine Borst Jones, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2010

• Leone Buyse, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Fenwick Smith, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Gwen Powell, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2009

• Sir James Galway, Lifetime Achievement Award

2008

• Bickford Brannen, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Jim Walker, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Gerald Carey, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2007

• Peter Lloyd, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• John Wion, Lifetime Achievement Award

2006

• Jeanne Baxtresser, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Stephen Preston, Lifetime Achievement Award

2005

• Peter-Lukas Graf, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Sheridon Stokes, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Mark Thomas, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2004

• Friedrich von Huene, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Paula Robison, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Philip Swanson, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

2003

• Robert Aitken, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Hubert Laws, Lifetime Achievement Award

2002

• William Bennett, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Louis Moyse, Lifetime Achievement Award

2001

• Michel Debost, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Joseph Mariano, Lifetime Achievement Award

2000

• William Hebert, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Jack Wellbaum, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Ross Prestia, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

1999

• Jacob Berg, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Robert Cole, Lifetime Achievement Award

1998

• Albert Cooper, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Charles DeLaney, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• John Solum, National Flute Association Distinguished Service Award

1997

• Walfrid Kujala, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Donald Peck, Lifetime Achievement Award

1996

• Samuel Baron, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Robert Willoughby, Lifetime Achievement Award

1995

• Julius Baker, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• John Krell, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Albert Tipton, Lifetime Achievement Award

1994

• Frances Blaisdell, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Bernard Goldberg, Lifetime Achievement Award

1993

• Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Lois Schaefer, Lifetime Achievement Award

1991

• Jean-Pierre Rampal, Lifetime Achievement Award

1976

• Emil Medicus, Honorary Lifetime Member