2024 Jasdeep Singh Degun sitar
2023 Abel Selaocoe cello
2021 Nicola Benedetti violin
2020 Lawrence Power viola
2019 Alina Ibragimova violin
2018 Igor Levit piano
2017 James Ehnes violin
2016 Daniil Trifonov piano
2015 Colin Currie percussion
2014 Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
2013 Steven Osborne piano
2012 Maurizio Pollini piano
2011 Leon Fleisher piano
2010 Stephen Hough piano
2009 Janine Jansen violin
2008 Imogen Cooper piano
2007 Michael Collins clarinet
2006 Anthony Marwood violin
2005 Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
2004 Mitsuko Uchida piano
2003 Paul Lewis piano
2002 Thomas Trotter organ
2001 Piotr Anderszewski piano
2000 Leif Ove Andsnes piano
1999 Graham Johnson piano
1998 Murray Perahia piano
1997 Julian Bream guitar, lute
1996 Itzhak Perlman violin
1995 András Schiff piano
1994 Iona Brown violin
1993 Steven Isserlis cello
1992 Geoffrey Parsons piano
1991 Evelyn Glennie percussion
1990 Håkan Hardenberger trumpet