Honor Committee

  • Metin ARDITI, Geneva
    Writer, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
  • Bessy ARGYRAKI, Athens (Greece)
    Performing and Recording Artist
  • Jeff BARNEL, Paris (France)
    Songwriter, record producer and music publisher
  • Daniel-Sidney BECHET, Paris (France)
    Musician, composer
  • Boris BERGMAN, Paris (France)
    Lyricist, writer, actor and film director
  • Michel BERNARD, Drôme Provençale (France)
    Songwriter
  • Cécile BERNIER, Paris (France)
    Music publisher, Budde Music France
  • Richard DE BORDEAUX, Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer (France)
    Songwriter, SACEM associate
  • Petula CLARK, C.B.E., Geneva 
    Singer and Actress, Arts and Letters Commander
  • Nicole CROISILLE, Paris (France)
    Singer and Actress, Knight of the Legion of Honor
  • Eric DEMARSAN, Paris (France)
    Film composer and songwriter
  • Guy DEMOLE, Geneva
    Honorary President of the Foundation of the Grand Théâtre de Genève
  • Yves DERISBOURG, Paris (France)
    Recording Executive, Radio / Television Executive and Presenter

  • Serge ELHAÏK, Évreux (France)
    Writer, Historian of pop music arrangers
  • Christian GAUBERT, Paris (France)
    Musical Director-Pianist, and Arts and Letters Officer
  • Max GUAZZINI, Paris (France)
    Former Chairman of the Board of the NRJ radio network, and of the Stade Français Paris Rugby
  • Tony HATCH, O.B.E., London (Great Britain)
    Composer, Conductor and Producer
  • Michael VON DER HEIDE, Zurich
    Singer, Composer and Actor
  • Jacques LEISER, Montreux
    Producer, manager and photographer
  • Peter LORNE, Paris
    Singer, Songwriter
  • Makis MATSAS, Athens (Greece)
    President Minos-EMI, a Universal Music Company
  • Jacques METGES, Paris (France)
    Manager
  • Christian MORIN, Paris (France)
    Presenter, musician and actor
  • Alain MORISOD, Geneva
    Musician
  • Marie MYRIAM, Paris (France)
    Singer, Lyricist, and Knight of Arts and Letters
  • Xavier OBERSON, Esq., Geneva
    Professor at the Geneva University, Lawyer, Chairman of the Board of the Geneva Opera Foundation
  • Jacques PESSIS, Paris
    Journalist, Writer and Historian
  • The Late Jaques VERNET, Geneva
    Former President of the State Council of the Republic and Canton of Geneva
  • Tom VOLF, Paris (France)
    Director of the film Maria By Callas
    President of the Callas Foundation (Paris)
  • André WAGNIÈRE, Geneva
    Historian, former banker
  • The Late Claude WOLFF, Geneva
    Manager and producer
  • Frédéric ZEITOUN, Paris (France)
    Lyricist, Singer and Columnist