1826 - 1849 / 1850 - 1899 / 1900 -1949 / 1950 - 1999 / 2000 to date

1951
Frederic Austin baritone
Ernest Irving music director

1953
Marion Scott musicologist
Albert Schweitzer musicologist

1959
Anton Rubinstein piano

1956
Paul Hindemith composer
Gregor Piatigorsky cello

1959
Benno Moiseiwitsch piano

1960
George Baker baritone

1970
Aaron Copland composer

1971
William Glock musical administrator

1984
Eric Fenby composer

1985
Lennox Berkeley composer
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau baritone
Yehudi Menuhin violin
Gerald Moore piano
Peter Pears tenor
Solomon Cutner piano

1986
Lorin Maazel conductor

1987
Janet Baker mezzo-soprano
Peter Maxwell Davies composer
Leon Goossens oboe

1988
Claudio Arrau piano
Julian Bream guitar
Bernard Haitink conductor

1989
John Denison music administrator
Vernon Handley conductor

1990
Charles Groves conductor
Rafael Kubelik conductor

1991
Thomas Armstrong organ
Harrison Birtwistle composer
Pierre Boulez composer
Elliott Carter composer
Joan Cross soprano
György Ligeti composer
Paul Sacher conductor
HRH The Duchess of Kent

1994
Felix Aprahamian music critic
Charles Mackerras conductor

1996
Howard Ferguson composer

1997
John Gardner composer

1998
The Earl of Harewood
George Christie music administrator

1999
David Willcocks conductor
Richard Steinitz author
Philip Jones trumpet
Anthony Payne composer