Joseph Conyers, 2024

Darol Anger, 2023

Itzhak Perlman, 2022

Edgar Meyer, 2021

Jeffrey Irvine, 2020

Mimi Zweig, 2019

Roland and Almita Vamos, 2018

Jamie Laredo, 2017

Sylvia Rosenberg, 2016

Kim Kashkashian, 2015

Paul Kantor, 2014

Matt Glaser, 2013

Paul Rolland (posthumous), 2012

Donald Weilerstein, 2011

Hans Jorgen Jensen, 2010

William Preucil, Sr., 2009

Alice Schoenfeld, 2008

Eleonore Schoenfeld (posthumous), 2008

Lynn Harrell, 2007

Helen Kwalwasser, 2006

Lawrence Hurst, 2005

Donald McInnes, 2004

Paul Katz, 2003

Heidi Castleman, 2002

Robert Mann, 2000

Fritz Magg (posthumous), 1998

Franco Gulli, 1997

Gary Karr, 1996

George Neikrug, 1995

Karen Tuttle, 1994

Nathan Gordon, 1993

Warren Benfield, 1992

Alice Chalifoux, 1991

Jascha Brodsky, 1990

Orlando Cole, 1990

Harvey Shapiro, 1989

Janos Starker, 1988

Zara Nelsova, 1987

Jascha Heifetz (emeritus), 1986

William Lincer, 1986

Efrem Zimbalist (emeritus), 1985

Leonard Sorkin, 1985

Eudice Shapiro, 1984

Aldo Parisot, 1983

Bernard Greenhouse, 1982

Roman Totenberg, 1981

Oscar Shumsky, 1980

Lillian Fuchs, 1979

Raya Garbousova, 1978

Paul Doktor, 1977

Rafael Bronstein, 1976

Dorothy DeLay, 1975

Yehudi Menuhin, 1974

David Walter, 1973

Gabor Rejto, 1972

Joseph Fuchs, 1971

William Primrose, 1970

Gregor Piatigorsky, 1969

Joseph Gingold, 1968

Samuel Applebaum, 1967

Ivan Galamian, 1966

Pablo Casals, 1965

Hans Letz, 1964

Isaac Stern, 1963

Hans Hess, 1962

Samuel Gardner, 1961

Louis Persinger, 1960

Joesph Szigeti, 1959