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