| 1981 |
Paul Eachus |
Indiana University |
| 1982 |
John Wasson |
University of North Texas |
| 1983 |
Randy Campora |
Florida State University |
| 1984 |
Dan Satterwhite |
University of North Texas |
| 1985 |
Bruce Blomquist |
University of Arizona |
| 1986 |
Blair Bollinger |
Curtis Institute of Music |
| 1987 |
Harold Van Schaik |
Eastman School of Music |
| 1988 |
Matthew T. Guilford |
New England Conservatory |
| 1989 |
no recipient |
| 1990 |
Robert Byrd |
University of Southern Mississippi |
| 1991 |
Robert Fournier |
Indiana University |
| 1992 |
Sergei Fedianin |
Kazakhstan |
| 1993 |
Steven Brown |
University of Illinois |
| 1994 |
Darren McHenry |
Juilliard School of Music |
| 1995 |
Norbert Lazsko |
Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary |
| 1996 |
Matthias Dangelmaier |
Trossingen Musik Hochschule, Germany |
| 1997 |
Michael McLemore |
University of Texas-Austin |
| 1998 |
J. Donald Crafton |
Catholic University |
| 1999 |
Joshua Brown |
University of North Texas |
| 2000 |
Jeffrey A. Gray |
Juilliard School of Music |
| 2001 |
Jussi Vuorinen |
Sibelius Academy of Music, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2002 |
Dan West |
University of North Texas |
| 2003 |
Zachary Bond |
Curtis Institute of Music |
| 2004 |
Michael Brown |
University of Michigan |
| 2005 |
Charles Reneau |
Juilliard School of Music |
| 2006 |
Matyas Veer |
Liszt Academy of Music-Budapest |
| 2007 |
Graeme Mutchler |
Juilliard School of Music |