Diane Wittry was named among the "30 Top Professionals 2015" by Musical America Worldwide. She has received the American Symphony Orchestra League's Helen M. Thompson Award for outstanding artistic leadership of a regional orchestra; she has been honored as the Outstanding Alumnae for Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California for 2013; The "Women of Excellence" Award from Beaumont, Texas; and an "Arts Ovation Award" and the "Woman of Distinction Award" from City of Allentown. Wittry is also only the third American to be named a recipient of the Fiorino Doro Award from the city of Vinci, Italy. She has also been the subject of profiles in The New York Times, Newsweek, and featured on a PBS News Hour.