1950s

• Philippe Entremont
  Philippe Entremont
  Philippe Entremont is a French pianist and conductor. He has made many recordings during his career, notably one in 1961 of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic....
  
   – Piano Medal

• Ingrid Haebler
  Ingrid Haebler
  Ingrid Haebler is an Austrian pianist. Studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Vienna Music Academy, Geneva Conservatory and privately in Paris with Marguerite Long. She toured worldwide, but is best known for a series of recordings from the 1950s to 1980s...
  
   – Beethoven Medal

• Donald Bell – Arnold Bax Memorial Medal, outstanding student from the Commonwealth
• Jacques Klein
  Jacques Klein
  Jacques Klein was a Brazilian composer and pianist.Born to a Jewish family in Aracati, he grew up in the nearby city of Fortaleza, where he began to study piano at the Conservatório Alberto Nepomuceno, which had been founded by his father...
  
  
• Kenneth Schermerhorn
  Kenneth Schermerhorn
  Kenneth Dewitt Schermerhorn was an American composer and orchestra conductor, most notably for the Nashville Symphony.-Biography:Schermerhorn was born in Schenectady, New York, where he studied clarinet, violin, and trumpet in school. At age 14, he forged a baptismal certificate to appear older so...
  
  

• Mario delli Ponti – Bach Medal
• Adam Harasiewicz, for outstanding achievement in piano

• Ahmet Adnan Saygun
  Ahmet Adnan Saygun
  Ahmed Adnan Saygun was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music. Ahmed Adnan Saygun is acknowledged as one of the most important 20th century composers in Turkish music history....
  
   – Jean Sibelius Composition Medal
• Miguel Querol Gavalda  – Gold Medal
• Peter-Lukas Graf
  Peter-Lukas Graf
  Peter-Lukas Graf is a flautist.He was born in Zürich in Switzerland. He was a pupil of André Jaunet, and later attended the Paris Conservatoire, where he won first prize with Marcel Moyse and Roger Cortot. Besides playing the flute both in orchestras and as a soloist, he is a conductor, and spent...
  
  

• Theo Bruins
  Theo Bruins
  Theo Bruins was a Dutch pianist and composer.Bruins' earliest piano lessons were with his mother. His professional piano studies commenced in 1946 with Jaap Spaanderman at the Conservatoire of the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum Foundation...
  
   - Beethoven medal
• Glenn Gould
  Glenn Gould
  Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach...
  
   – Bach Medal
• Idil Biret
  Idil Biret
  İdil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her interpretations of the Romantic repertoire.-Education:...
  
   – Dinu Lipatti gold medal
• Luis Garcia-Renart
  Luis Garcia-Renart
  -Biography:Born is Barcelona, Garcia first studied at the National Conservatory of Music and then at the conservatories of Bern and Basel in Switzerland with Sándor Veress and Sándor Végh. Between 1956 and 1960 he studied directly under Pablo Casals in France and Puerto Rico. In 1959 he won the...
  
   – Cello Prize

1960s

• Joaquín Achúcarro
  Joaquín Achúcarro
  Joaquín Achúcarro is a Basque Spanish classical pianist.- Biography and career :Achúcarro was born in Bilbao, Spain, in the difficult years of the Spanish post-war period. He began piano lessons at the Bilbao Conservatory and, in 1956, at the age of 13, made his concerto debut in Bilbao playing a...
  
   – Best Debut of the Year
• Piet Kee – Bach Medal
• Bogdan Paprocki – Opera Medal

• Aafje Heynis
  Aafje Heynis
  Aafje Heynis is a Dutch contralto. In 1961, she was awarded the Harriet Cohen International Music Award. A tea rose, hybridised by Buisman 1964, was named after her.-Biography:...
  
   – outstanding artistry
• Oscar Mischiati – A. Davison Memorial Medal for Musicology

• Barbara Hesse-Bukowska
  Barbara Hesse-Bukowska
  Barbara Hesse-Bukowska is a Polish pianist. She graduated from Warsaw's State Higher School of Music in June 1949, and took part a few months later in the first postwar edition of the International Chopin Piano Competition, winning the 2nd prize...
  
   – British Medal
• Byron Janis
  Byron Janis
  Byron Janis is an American classical pianist.-Life:He made several recordings for RCA Victor and Mercury Records, and occupies two volumes of the Philips Great Pianists series. His discography covers repertoire from Beethoven to David Guion and includes renditions of major piano concertos from...
  
   – Beethoven Medal (for best performance of two Beethoven Sonatas, the "Waldstein" and Opus 109)
• Yonty Solomon
  Yonty Solomon
  Jonathan " "Sir" Yonty" Solomon was a South African pianist who was soloist throughout the world with many of the most important symphony orchestras....
  
   – Beethoven Medal
• Arve Tellefsen
  Arve Tellefsen
  Arve Tellefsen is a Norwegian violinist.He was born and raised in Trondheim, Norway. When he was 6 years old, he began playing the violin in 'Trondheims musikkskole'...
  
  
• Yaltah Menuhin
  Yaltah Menuhin
  Yaltah Menuhin was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet.-Early life:Yaltah was born of Russian Jewish parents in San Francisco, the youngest of three extraordinarily musical children. Her siblings were Yehudi Menuhin and Hephzibah Menuhin...
  
   / Joel Ryce
  Joel Ryce-Menuhin
  Joel Ryce-Menuhin was an American pianist, who later became a Jungian psychologist in private practice.-Biography:...
  
  

• Vladimir Ashkenazy
  Vladimir Ashkenazy
  Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...
  
   – Piano Prize (shared)
• Norma Fisher
  Norma Fisher
  -Biography:Norma Fisher was born in London of Russian-Polish parents. She was soon recognised as "a rare musical talent" winning an exhibition at the age of eleven, to study with Sidney Harrison at the Guildhall School of Music...
  
   – Piano Prize (shared)
• Louise Talma
  Louise Talma
  Louise Talma was a composer. She was raised in New York City and studied at the Institute of Musical Arts , 1922–1930, and received her bachelor of music degree from New York University and masters of arts degree from Columbia University...
  
   – Sibelius Medal for Composition
• Gloria Saarinen – Commonwealth Medal
• Francis Chagrin
  Francis Chagrin
  Francis Chagrin ,) was a composer of film scores and popular orchestral music, as well as a conductor.- Career :...
  
   – Film Composer of the Year

• Bernadette Greevy
  Bernadette Greevy
  Bernadette Greevy was an Irish mezzo-soprano. She was founder and artistic director of the Anna Livia Dublin International Opera Festival. She was the first artist-in-residence at the Dublin Institute of Technology's Faculty of Applied Arts.-Biography:Bernadette Greevy was born in Clontarf, Dublin...
  
  
• Nelson Freire
  Nelson Freire
  Nelson Freire is a Brazilian classical pianist.Freire began playing the piano when he was three years old. He replayed from memory pieces his older sister had just performed. His teachers in Brazil were Nise Obino and Lucia Branco, former students of a pupil of Liszt. For his first public recital,...
  
  

• Martin Isepp – Carroll Donner Stuchell Medal for Accompanying

• Marie Collier
  Marie Collier
  Marie Collier was an Australian operatic soprano.Marie Collier was born in Ballarat, Victoria. She first came to prominence in 1952 singing the role of Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana for the National Theatre Opera company in Melbourne...
  
  
• Waleri Gradow (Valery Gradow)
• Ronald Stevenson
  Ronald Stevenson
  Ronald Stevenson is a British composer, pianist, and writer about music.-Biography:The son of a Scottish father and English mother, Stevenson studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music , studying composition with Richard Hall and piano with Iso Elinson, graduating with distinction...
  
   – for Busoni centenary radio programme (possibly award year was 1967)

• José-Luis Garcia

• Roger Smalley
  Roger Smalley
  Roger Smalley AM is a British-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley is currently a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.-Biography:Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire,...
  
   – Contemporary music performance
• Maureen Forrester
  Maureen Forrester
  Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, was a Canadian operatic contralto.-Life and career:Maureen Forrester was born and grew up in a poor section of Montreal, Quebec. She was one of four children to Thomas Forrester, a Scottish cabinetmaker, and his Irish-born wife, the former May Arnold. She...
  
   – the Council's Prize
• William Mathias
  William Mathias
  William Mathias CBE was a Welsh composer.-Brief biography:Mathias was born in Whitland, Carmarthenshire. A child prodigy, he started playing the piano at the age of three and composing at the age of five. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Lennox Berkeley, where he was elected a fellow...
  
   – Bax Society Prize
• Fernande Kaeser – Beethoven Medal

2000s

• Ilid Jones

• Cheryl Frances-Hoad (joint winner)

• Victoria Davies, harpist

Dates not yet determined

• Diane Andersen – Bach Medal
• Sebastian Benda – Bach Medal
• Jennifer Bullock
• Edwin Carr
  Edwin Carr (composer)
  Edwin Carr was a composer of classical music from New Zealand.-Biography:Edwin Carr was born in Auckland and was educated at Otago Boys' High School from 1940 to 1943. He studied music at Otago University from 1944-5 and Auckland University College from 1946, then left with his degree unfinished...
  
  
• Maria Clodes (Maria Clodes-Jaguaribe) – best young pianist of the year
• Paul Max Edlin
• Christopher Green-Armytage
• Jerome Jelinek – cello
• Fernando Laires – Beethoven Medal (in memory of Artur Schnabel
  Artur Schnabel
  Artur Schnabel was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura...
  
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• Aase Nordmo Løvberg
  Aase Nordmo Løvberg
  Aase Nordmo Løvberg is a Norwegian opera singer. She belongs among the 20th century's foremost Nordic singers. For many years she sang with Jussi Björling at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, and she has sung under renowned conductors such as Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti.Løvberg made her debut...
  
   (Gold medal for singing)
• Elizabeth Powell
• Abbey Simon
  Abbey Simon
  -Education:Simon began lessons with David Saperton at the age of five. At the age of eight, Simon was accepted by Józef Hofmann as a scholarship student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he trained with fellow classmates Jorge Bolet and Sidney Foster. Simon also took lessons...
  
  
• Erna Spoorenberg
  Erna Spoorenberg
  Erna Spoorenberg was a Dutch soprano.She was born in Yogyakarta, Java now part of Indonesia. As a child, she studied the violin and singing and, at the age of 14, she studied under Isa Neuhaus, a singer with the Düsseldorf Opera...
  
  
• Koji Toyoda – Bach medal
• Valerie Tryon
  Valerie Tryon
  Valerie Tryon is a British-born classical pianist. Since 1971 she has resided in Canada, but continues to pursue an international performing and recording career, and spends a part of each year in her native Britain. Among her specialisms is the music of Franz Liszt, of which she has made a number...
  
  
• Elena Vorotko – Bach Prize
• Ronald Woodcock