2024 Lotte Betts-Dean mezzo soprano
2023 Timothy Ridout viola
2021 The Hermes Experiment
2020 Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
2019 Castalian String Quartet
2018 Sean Shibe guitar
2017 Joseph Middleton piano
2016 Clare Hammond piano
2015 Mary Bevan soprano
2014 Igor Levit piano
2013 Heath Quartet
2012 Oliver Coates cello
2011 Alina Ibragimova violin
2010 Iestyn Davies countertenor
2009 Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
2008 Gustavo Dudamel conductor
2007 Kate Royal soprano
2006 Andrew Kennedy tenor
2005 Edward Gardner conductor
2004 Ilan Volkov conductor
2003 Simon Trpceski piano
2002 Jonathan Lemalu bass
2001 Colin Currie percussion
2000 Christopher Maltman baritone
1999 Lisa Milne soprano
1998 Brentano Quartet
1997 Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo soprano
1996 Ian Bostridge tenor
1995 Daniel Harding conductor
1994 Skampa Quartet
1993 Sarah Chang violin
1992 Rosemary Joshua soprano
1991 Amanda Roocroft soprano
1990 Leontina Vaduva soprano