Awards
GRAMMY Awards
2011 Panamericana Suite won Best Latin Jazz Album, 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2011 Panamericana Suite won Best Classical Contemporary Composition, 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2008 Funk Tango won Best Latin Jazz Album, 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards
2005 Riberas won Best Classical Album 2005, 6th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2004 Merengue won Best Instrumental Composition 2004, 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards
2003 Brazilian Dreams won Best Latin Jazz Album 2003, 4th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2003 Historia del Soldado won Best Classical Album 2003, 4th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
2002 Appeared as Guest Artist on Bebo Valdes Trio El Arte Del Sabor, which won Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album 2002, at the 46th Annual GRAMMY Awards and the 3rd Annual (2002) Latin GRAMMY Awards
2001 Paquito D'Rivera Quintet, Live at the Blue Note won Best Latin Jazz Album, 2nd Annual Latin GRAMMY Award
2000 Tropicana Nights won Latin Jazz Album 2000, 1st Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards
1996 Portraits of Cuba won Best Jazz Performance, 39th Annual GRAMMY Awards
1979 Irakere won Best Latin Recording 1979, 22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards
Mr. D’Rivera has also received more than eight additional Grammy nominations. Available - more extensive list of awards and honors
Awards / Honors
2008 D'Rivera receives President's Award from the International Association for Jazz Educators
2007 - 2008 D'Rivera appointed "Composer in Residence" at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
2007 D'Rivera receives a 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award for Music Composition
2007 The Kennedy Center and The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Series for Artistic Excellence, Living Jazz Legend Award
2006 Jazz Journalists Association, Clarinet of the Year 2006 award
2005 National Medal for the Arts, presented at the White House by President George W. Bush on November 10th, 2005
2005 National Endowment for the Arts - Jazz Masters recipient
2004 Jazz Journalists Association, Clarinet of the Year 2004 award
2003 Doctorate Honoris Causa in Music, Berklee School of Music
2002 Outstanding Editorial Column, National Assoc. of Hispanic Publications
Available - more extensive list of awards and honors