This is a list of distinguished members of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity (ΦΜΑ) who have achieved significant recognition in their respective fields, including (but not limited to) education, film, industry, literature, music, philanthropy, public service, radio, science, and television.
In determining the classification for each Sinfonian listed here, an attempt was made to classify the individual based on what he is most known for. In some cases, a person such as Aaron Copland may be known equally as a conductor and a composer. In other cases, an individual such as Branford Marsalis may be known equally as a jazz musician and a television personality.
Honorary members are in italics, charter members are in bold.
Jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger; member of the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame; had four number one hits in the 1930s
Founder of the George Banta Company (later known as Banta Corporation); served as historian of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and is honored as a "second founder" of that fraternity in recognition of his contributions to its development and expansion; instrumental in the expansion of Delta Gamma women's fraternity, of which he remains the only male initiate, and was an advocate of collegiate Greek life; mayor of Menasha, Wisconsin in 1892, 1895, and 1902–1903
Industrialist, financier, and art patron; founder of H. C. Frick & Company; chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company; played a major role in the formation of the giant United States Steel
Investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts; built Oheka Castle, the second largest private home in the US; served as Chairman of the National Music Week Committee of the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music in the 1920s
Mining engineer; founder, investor, and president of the Cyprus Mines Corporation; namesake of Harvey Mudd College, a science and engineering college in Claremont, California
Industrialist; steel magnate; under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the US, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world
Winner of the Presley Award at Hardin-Simmons University in 1954; named Composer Laureate of Arkansas in 1975; received the Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award in 1988
Well-decorated composer; recipient of the Arts and Letters Award, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, and Charles Ives Scholarship, all from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Noted for choral compositions Alleluia and Testament of Freedom; first recipient of the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit, in 1964; recipient of Yale University's Sanford Medal
Director of the New England Conservatory of Music, 1897–1930; member of "Boston Six"; "Sinfonia" in the fraternity's name is attributed to Chadwick, based on the name of a student organization he was a member of at the Leipzig Conservatory
Received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1968 for his orchestral work Echoes of Time and the River and a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition in 2001 for his work Star-Child
Director of the Eastman School of Music, 1924–1964; recipient of the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 4, Requiem, and the Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award in 1954
Long-time Director of Bands at the University of Michigan; recipient of the Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award in 1994 (awarded posthumously, as he died one month before the National Convention)
Composer, conductor, arranger, and performer; a Kennedy Center honoree in 1994; has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1995, and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005
Pianist and bandleader; has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966
Composer and musicologist; traced the sources and origins of popular songs to their folk and classical roots; recipient of the Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award in 1958
Musicologist and longtime professor at the University of Missouri School of Music. An author and first musicologist inducted into the Missouri Music Hall of Fame.
With his wife, became the first songwriters to have written three of the five tunes nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song - "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" from Best Friends, "It Might Be You" from Tootsie (with Dave Grusin), and "If We Were in Love" from Yes, Giorgio (with John Williams). "Up Where We Belong" from An Officer and a Gentleman won the award that year. They also wrote the popular theme song "And Then There's Maude" for the hit Norman Lear television series Maude.
Bergman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980 and in 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Berklee College of Music. He is a member of the board of Barbra Streisand's charitable foundation.
Professional speaker, singer, radio broadcaster, author and actor; longtime announcer for the Chicago Cubs; well-known for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" for various Chicago sports teams; named as a Signature Sinfonian in 2010; given a World Series ring by the Cubs for the 2016 World Series
Creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; named a Pittsburgh Penguins Celebrity Captain in 1991; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002
Capt. Winston Scott, 1950–present (Epsilon Iota 1970); member of the Space Shuttle Endeavour crew; Senior Vice President for External Relations and Economic Development, Florida Institute of Technology[63])
^"William Francis McBeth". The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. The Central Arkansas Library System.
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