Doris Duke Performing Artist Award
Jazz musicians who received the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award: list of 8 recipients by year.
The Doris Duke Artist Award is undertaken by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and designed to "empower, invest in and celebrate artists by offering multi-year, unrestricted funding as a response to financial and funding challenges both unique to the performing arts and to each grantee". Started in 2011, the program supports artists in jazz, theatre, and contemporary dance. The Doris Duke Artist Award now offers up to $575,000 of individual support ($550,000 in unrestricted funding and up to $25,000 to artists who have demonstrated that they are saving towards later years of their career). The prize was $275,000 until it was doubled 2023 in commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the program and Doris Duke Foundation's continued commitment to supporting individual performing artists. Two classes of Doris Duke Impact Awards totaling $80,000 were made in 2014 and 2015, but the program was discontinued after that.
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Recipients
| 2012 | Vijay Iyer American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, and writer |
| — | Wayne Shorter American jazz saxophonist and composer (1933–2023) |
| — | Dee Dee Bridgewater American singer (born 1950) |
| — | Anthony Braxton American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945) |
| — | Randy Weston American jazz pianist (1926–2018) |
| — | Cécile McLorin Salvant American jazz singer of French and Haitian roots |
| — | Oliver Lake American musician (born 1942) |
| — | Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah American jazz composer and trumpeter |