| 1975 |
John Vance |
University of Northern Colorado |
| 1976 |
Ken Crane |
Berklee College of Music |
| 1977 |
Stan Adams |
University of Southern Illinois |
| 1978 |
Don Lucas |
Texas Tech University |
| 1979 |
Chris Matten |
University of Texas-Austin |
| 1980 |
Paul Hunt |
Youngstown State University |
| 1981 |
Tom Ashworth |
University of North Texas |
| 1982 |
Susan K. Smith |
University of North Texas |
| 1983 |
Stephen B. Parsons |
University of Kansas |
| 1984 |
David Vining |
Florida State University |
| 1985 |
Mark R. Williams |
University of Texas-Austin |
| 1986 |
Steve Schoppert |
McNeese State University |
| 1987 |
Julie Josephson |
New England Conservatory |
| 1988 |
Jeff Knutson |
Eastman School of Music |
| 1989 |
no recipient |
| 1990 |
no recipient |
| 1991 |
Lynn Mostoller |
Eastman School of Music |
| 1992 |
Algat Abduraimov |
Kazakhstan |
| 1993 |
James Fantz |
University of Houston |
| 1994 |
Jon Etterbeek |
Juilliard School of Music |
| 1995 |
Tricia Baran |
Arizona State University |
| 1996 |
Barry Hearn |
University of Illinois |
| 1997 |
Norbert Laczko |
Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary |
| 1998 |
Stephen Lange |
Indiana University |
| 1999 |
Nathan Zgonc |
San Francisco Conservatory |
| 2000 |
Jerry Hou |
University of Minnesota |
| 2001 |
Clifford Dale Moore II |
Florida State University |
| 2002 |
James Williams |
Juilliard School of Music |
| 2003 |
Robert Kozanek |
Academy of Performing Arts, Prague |
| 2004 |
Simeon Stoyanov |
Central Michigan University |
| 2005 |
Marques Young |
Juilliard School of Music |
| 2006 |
Quirijn van der Bijlaard |
Rotterdam Conservatory |
| 2007 |
Jeremy Wilson |
University of North Texas |
| 2008 |
Steve Menard |
University of San Francisco |