IMC Honorary Members are chosen among the world’s outstanding professionals, educators, performers and composers. Recently, IMC has awarded honorary membership to persons who have served the IMC in an exceptional way.

Leo Brouwer (Cuba)
José Carreras (Spain)
Gengchen FU (China)
Awatef Abdel Karim Hussein (Egypt)
Sonja Greiner (Germany)
Richard Letts (Australia)
Frans de Ruiter (Netherlands)
Rodion Shchedrin (Russia)
Einar Solbu (Norway)
Alica Terzian (Argentina)
Zuqiang WU (China)

Claudio Abbado (1933-2014)
Munir Bashir (1930-1997)
Karl Boehm (1894-1981)
Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)
Adrian Boult (1889-1983)
Luis Heitor Correa de Azevedo (1905-1992)
Frank Callaway (1919-2003)
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)
Alain Daniélou (1907-1994)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012)
Maureen Forrester (1930-2010)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Lars Grunth (d. 2015)
Lu Ji (1909-2002)
André Jurres (1912-2001)
Dimitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Lucrecia Kasilag (1917-2008)
Aram Khatchaturian (1903-1978)
Shigeo Kishibe (1912-2005)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)
Gilles Lefebvre (1922-2001)
Li Huanzhi (1919-2000)
Ingvar Lidholm (1921-2017)
He Luting (1903-1999)
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
Frank Martin (1890-1974)
Robert Mayer (1880-1985)
Narayana Menon (d.1997)
Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)
J.H. Kwabena Nketia (1921-2019)
Seiji Ozawa (1935-2024)
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)
Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)
Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003)
Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922-2000)
Mstislav Rostropovitch (1927-2007)
Paul Sacher (1906-1999)
Peter Schreier (1935-2019)
Ravi Shankar (1920-2012)
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Tania Siver (d. 2023)
Isaac Stern (1920-2001)
Erich Stockmann (1926-2003)
Joan Sutherland (1926-2010)
Henryk Szeryng (1918-1988)
M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916-2004)
Trân Van Khê (1921-2015)