2025 Katherine Balch – whisper concerto 
2024 Kaija Saariaho – Innocence
2023 Gavin Higgins – Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra
2021 Dani Howard – Trombone Concerto
2020 Frank Denyer – The Fish that Became the Sun (Songs of the Dispossessed)
2019 Rebecca Saunders – Yes
2018 Mark-Anthony Turnage – Hibiki
2017 Philip Venables – 4.48 Psychosis
2016 Luca Francesconi – Duende, The Dark Notes: violin concerto
2015 Hans Abrahamsen – Let me tell you…
2014 George Benjamin – Written On Skin
2013 Gerald Barry – The Importance of Being Earnest
2012 Jonathan Harvey – Messages
2011 James Dillon – Nine Rivers
2010 Kaija Saariaho – Notes on Light
2009 George Benjamin – Into the Little Hill
2008 Thomas Adès – Tevot
2007 Jonathan Harvey – …towards a pure land
2006 Julian Anderson – The Book of Hours
2005 Thomas Adès – The Tempest
2004 Harrison Birtwistle – The Shadow of Night
2003 George Benjamin – Palimpsests
2002 Peter Eötvös – Three Sisters
2001 Wolfgang Rihm – Jagden und Formen
2000 Gérard Grisey – Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil
1999 Henri Dutilleux – The Shadows of Time
1998 Thomas Adès – Asyla
1997 Colin Matthews – Renewal
1996 Michael Tippett – The Rose Lake
1995 Peter Maxwell Davies – Symphony No. 5
1994 Witold Lutoslawski – Symphony No. 4
1993 Magnus Lindberg – Joy
1992 Harrison Birtwistle – Gawain
1991 Poul Ruders – Symphony
1990 Olivier Messiaen – St François d'Assise