Silke Leopold (2025)
Jean-Jacques Nattiez (2025)
Leonardo Waisman (2025)
Bonnie J. Blackburn (2022)
Malena Kuss (2022)
Dorothea Baumann (2019)
Madeleine Regli (2019)
H. Robert Cohen (2017)
David Fallows (2015)
Catherine Massip (2015)
Simha Arom (2012)
Tatsuo Minagawa (2012)
Pierluigi Petrobelli (2009)
Robert M. Stevenson (2007)
Michel Huglo (2007)
Ludwig Finscher (1992)
Rudolf Häusler (1992)
Hellmut Federhofer (1987)
Kurt von Fischer (1987)
Paul Henry Lang (1987)
Nino Pirrotta (1987)
Mathis Burckhardt (1983)
Eduard Reeser (1982)
Friedrich Blume (1973)
Ernst Mohr (1972)
Armen Carapetyan (1971)
Anthony van Hoboken (1962)
Higini Anglès (1958)
Charles van den Borren (1956)
Edward J. Dent (1949, Hon. Pres.)
Wilhelm Merian (1948)
Alfred Cortot (1928)
Guido Adler (1927, Hon. Pres.)
Henry Prunières (1927)
Honorary IMS Membership Committee (2022–27)
Chair: Daniel K. L. Chua (HK)
Members: Laura Tunbridge (UK)
Internal Regulations for Honorary IMS Memberships
- IMS Honorary Memberships are awarded for outstanding service and/or scholarship that has consolidated, facilitated, or advanced the aims of the society.
- One or, at most, two awards may be given every year, or on a cumulative basis to coincide with the congressional and intercongressional meetings of the IMS.
- An Honorary Membership Committee (according to § 8.1, “Committees,” of the IMS Statutes) consists of three members, including the chair who should be a Directorium member, and is responsible for selecting potential recipients for discussion and election by the Directorium. Nominations can also be submitted to the IMS President by society members and passed on to the Committee for consideration.
- The election will be decided by a simple majority of Directorium members present for the discussion on honorary memberships.
- Persons elected as honorary members will be honored with a short laudatio and given life membership of the society.
Approved by the IMS Directorium, 11 August 2026