| 1992 | John Drew | Professor, Florida State University |
| 1993 | Albert Lube* | Professor, University of Houston |
| 1994 | Leon Brown* | Professor, University of North Texas |
| 1995 | Per Brevig | Professor, Juilliard School of Music and Manhattan School of Music |
| 1996 | Peter Gane | Professor, Guildhall School of Music |
| 1997 | John Swallow * | Former Professor, New England Conservatory, Yale University, Manhattan School of Music |
| 1998 | M. Dee Stewart | Professor, Indiana University |
| 1999 | Donald Knaub | Former Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2000 | Ingemar Roos | Frölunda, Sweden |
| 2001 | John Hill * | Former Professor, University of Iowa |
| 2002 | Curtis Olson | Former Professor, Michigan State University |
| 2003 | Viktor Sumerkin* | Professor, St Petersburg Conservatory |
| 2004 | Edwin “Buddy” Baker | Former Professor, Indiana, Colorado & Northern Colorado Universities |
| 2005 | Heinz Fadle* | Former Professor, Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Germany |
| 2006 | Denis Wick | Former Professor, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London |
| 2007 | Robert Gray* | Former Professor, University of Illinois |
| 2008 | Jan Kagarice | Adjunct Professor, University of North Texas |
| 2009 | Don Hough | Former Professor, University of Tennessee |
| 2010 | Branimir Slokar | Trombone Soloist |
| 2011 | John Marcellus | Professor, Eastman School of Music |
| 2012 | George Wiegel | Former Professor, Rotterdam Conservatory, The Netherlands |
| 2013 | Irvin L. Wagner | Professor, University of Oklahoma |
| 2014 | Eric Crees | Professor, Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| 2015 | Andrea Conti | Professor, Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| 2016 | Mogens Andresen | Professor, Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium |
| 2017 | Ben van Dijk | Professor, Amsterdam School of the Arts |
| 2018 | Ava Ordman | Professor, Michigan State University |
| 2019 | Nathaniel Brickens | Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2020 | Bart van Lier | Professor, Conservatorium van Amsterdam |
| 2021 | David Sporny | Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst /td> |
| 2022 | Jonas Bylund | Professor, Hochschule für Musik und TheaterHannover (GER) |
| 2023 | Dudley Bright | Professor, Royal Academy of Music (London) |
| 2024 | Abbie Conant | Retired Professor, Trossingen (Germany) |
* deceased