2025 Laura van der Heijden – cello
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