2024 BBC Singers
2023 Manchester Collective
2021 Dunedin Consort
2020 Scottish Ensemble
2019 Aurora Orchestra
2018 The Sixteen
2017 Manchester Camerata
2016 National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
2015 London Contemporary Orchestra
2014 London Philharmonic Orchestra
2013 Britten Sinfonia
2012 National Youth Choir of Scotland
2011 Aurora Orchestra
2010 London Sinfonietta
2009 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Ensemble 10/10
2008 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
2007 Britten Sinfonia
2006 I Fagiolini
2005 Hallé Orchestra

From 2005, the Large Ensemble Award was renamed the Ensemble Award and opened to any group of three players or more.

Large Ensemble

2004 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim
2003 London Sinfonietta
2002 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
2001 London Symphony Orchestra
2000 BBC Symphony Orchestra
1999 Westminster Cathedral Choir
1998 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
1997 City of London Sinfonia
1996 Welsh National Opera Orchestra
1995 Philharmonia Orchestra
1994 The Bournemouth Orchestras
1993 National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
1992 BBC Philharmonic
1991 English National Opera Orchestra
1990 London Symphony Orchestra