2023 Award Recipient – Steve Acciani
The Dave Goedecke Lifetime Achievement Award honors a California band director who has exhibited a lifetime of achievement in music education at the state level. The Lifetime Achievement Award may be given posthumously. The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually at the CBDA Annual Banquet at the California All State Music Educators Conference.
Nominees for the Dave Goedecke Lifetime Achievement Award must demonstrate outstanding contributions in all the following areas:
Years of Distinguished Service. The award is for lifetime achievement rather than for a single contribution, no matter how monumental. Nominees should have a minimum of 25 years of distinguished service to music education.
Categories of Distinction. The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented for achievement in leadership, teaching, and service. Distinction in these categories can be demonstrated through:
- Performance of the nominee on the job;
- Service beyond the requirements of the job at the state level;
- Outreach which has improved music education in nominee’s district, region, state, through outstanding music program or leadership to additional music educators.
- Service to California music education such as: service organization offices held, committee memberships, special projects, meetings, publications.
- Evidence of service in leadership roles in all of the following areas:
- Institutional
- Local and state
- Highly regarded as an exceptional mentor and role model by professional colleagues
| 2023 | Steve Acciani | Diamond Bar High School |
| 2022 | Cheryl Yee Glass | San Ramon Valley High School |
| 2021 | None | None |
| 2020 | Dr. Eric Hammer | University of the Pacific |
| 2019 | Michael Hipp | Retired Music Educator |
| 2018 | Greg Christiansen | Golden Valley High School (Merced) |
| 2017 | Lisa Butts | CBDA/CAJ Past President, Hanford West HS |
| 2016 | Ella Webb | Retired Music Educator |
| 2015 | Timothy Smith | Retired, California State University East Bay |
| 2014 | John Larrieu | Music Educator |
| 2013 | Dr. Thomas Lee | Director of Bands Emeritus, UCLA |
| 2012 | Dr. Edward Harris | Director of Bands, San Jose State University |
| 2011 | Robert Halseth | Director of Bands, Sacramento State University |
| 2010 | Warren Torns | Director of Bands, Mt. Carmel High School |
| 2009 | William Johnson | Director of Bands, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo |
| 2008 | Bill Hill | Retired Music Educator, Past President |
| 2007 | Tom Cole | Director of Bands, Rancho Bernardo High School |
| 2006 | Duane Weston | Director of Bands, College of the Sequoias |
| 2005 | Bill Schneider | Retired Band Director |
| 2004 | Frank “Buck” Shaffer | Director of Bands, Porterville High School |
| 2003 | Lyle Stubson | Music Educator/Former Board Member |
| 2002 | Margaret Neu | Music Educator, Davis Public Schools |
| 2001 | Burl Walter | Director of Bands, Reedley High School |
| 2000 | Larry Sutherland | Director of Bands, CSU Fresno |
| 1999 | Joe Foster | Music Educator/Past President |
| 1998 | LeRoy Roach | Music Educator/Former Board Member |
| 1997 | Dave Goedecke | Music Educator |
| 1996 | Bill Crane | Music Educator |
| 1995 | Sylvester McElroy | Music Educator |
| 1994 | Steve Connoly | Music Educator |
| 1993 | Ralph Bredenberg | Music Educator |