CAPMT Lifetime Achievement Award
CAPMT Lifetime Achievement Award for service in music recognizes an individual or a group residing in the same geographic area where the CAPMT State Conference will be held during the award year.
PURPOSE
• Recognition of deserving individuals and/or groups
• Increase public awareness for "classical music” in general
• Increased visibility of CAPMT
CRITERIA FOR CONSIDERATION
The individual or group nominated for an award should have demonstrated leadership and service in the music community of his or her geographical area over a significant period of time. This might include work as an administrator, donor, volunteer, teacher or performer. Private companies, government agencies and arts support groups are eligible.
METHOD OF SELECTION
The CAPMT Board of Directors nominates and selects recipients of the Teacher of the Year and Lifetime Achievement awards (by electronic discussion and vote in May).
Current Lifetime Achievement Award Winner |
2026 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERDr. Dmitry Rachmanov |
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Dr. Dmitry Rachmanov is Director of Keyboard Studies at California State University, Northridge. A sought-after performer, master class clinician, adjudicator and lecturer, Dr. Rachmanov has served on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music and Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and has been a guest artist/lecturer at The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Royal Northern College of Music (UK), Shanghai and Beijing Central Conservatories.
Rachmanov has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, London's Barbican and South Bank Centres, at venues across Europe and Asia, and performed as soloist with Ukraine National Symphony, and National Orchestra of Porto, among others. He has recorded for Naxos, Parma, Vista Vera and Cambria labels.
An active member of the American Liszt Society, Dmitry Rachmanov is the president of the society’s Southern California chapter. He was the Artistic Director of the ALS 2016 Festival “Liszt and Russia,” hosted by CSUN. His summer festivals include Piano Sicily and InterHarmony in Italy, Adamant in Vermont. He is a Co-Founder of the OpusOne Festival in Los Angeles.
A proponent of Russian repertoire, Rachmanov gave the US premiere of Boris Pasternak Piano Sonata, broadcast by the NPR, and he is a founding member and President of the Scriabin Society of America. His April 2014 commemorative all-Scriabin program at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall was described as “a ‘poem of ecstasy’ in every sense: giant in conception, quantity, quality, execution, thoughtfulness, and sensitivity” by the New York Concert Review. He is in the process of recording a video anthology of Alexander Scriabin’s piano works.
Dr. Rachmanov is a recipient of numerous awards: “Jerome Richfield Memorial Scholar” and Phi Beta Delta’s Outstanding Faculty Award at CSUN, “Outstanding CAPMT Member State Recognition Award” by California Association of Professional Music Teachers, Art Consultant Award by Shanghai International Cultural Exchange Association, and the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame Award.
Past Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
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