1953 Naomi Weiss
1958 Virginia Hutchings
1963 Christopher Sager, Jeffrey Siegel
1966 Bonnie Kellert
1969 Nina Louise Tichman
1972 Dean Kramer
1975 Jane Coop
1978 Robert McDonald
1981 Francisco Rennó
1984 Gwendolyn Mok, Peter Collins
1987 Gail Niwa
1990 Vivian Choi
1993 Mark Anderson
1996 Lora Tchekoratova
1999 Ory Shihor
2002 Robert Henry, Yoshikazu Nagai
2005 Jie Chen
2008 Not awarded
2011 Yoonie Han
2014 Somang Jeagal
2017 Yi-Yang Chen
2021 Vivian Chen
  Violin Viola Cello
1950 Diana Steiner
1955 Elaine Skorodin
1959 Toby Saks
1964 Not awarded
1967 Ralph Kirshbaum
1970 Hiroko Yajima Marc Johnson
1973 Gil Morgenstern Steven Doane
1976 Mitchell Stern Nils Oliver
1979 Guillermo Figueroa Marcy Rosen
1982 Stacy Phelps Joen Vasquez Jonathan Spitz
1985 Adela Peña Cynthia Phelps Kari-Lise Ravnan
1988 Keng-Yuen Tseng Roberto Diaz Kim Bak Dinitzen
1991 Kyung-Sun Lee Daniel Foster Peter Stumpf
1994 Malin Broman Carol Rodland Zvi Plesser
1997 Jennifer Frautschi Kirsten Johnson Diliana Momtchilova
2000 Yoo-Kyung Min Roland Glassl Panu Luosto
2003 David Bowlin Melissa Reardon Cecilia Lee
2006 Daniela Shtereva Yu Jin David Requiro
2009 Ga Hyun Cho, Andrea Segar Emily Deans Hee-Young Lim
2012 Stefani Collins Matthew Lipman Matthew Zalkind
2015 Nadir Kashimov Yifei Deng
2018 Youjin Lee Muriel Razevi Tony Ryder
2022 Jaewon Wee SoHui Yun Sydney Lee
1976 Christopher Brown
1979 Don Freund
1982 Elisabeth Brusa
1985 Thomas Allen Levines
1988 Sung-Hyun Yun
1991 Yong Yang
1994 Eugenio Manuel Rodrigues
1997 Kent Marks
2000 Jason Haney
2003 Peter A. Gilbert
2006 Nathan J. Stumpff
2009 Zhou Tian
2012 Feng-Hsu Lee
2015 Roydon Tse
2018 Matthew Peterson
2022 Sam Wu
1952 Madelaine Chambers, soprano
1956 Robert Kerns, baritone
1961 No first prize awarded
1962 Rachel Mathes, soprano
1965 Esther Hinds, soprano; William Neill, tenor
1968 Jessye Norman, soprano; William Cochran, tenor
1971 Evelyn Petros, soprano
1974 Cynthia Clarey, mezzo-soprano; Robert Guarino, baritone
1977 Gwendolyn Bradley, soprano; Gregory Wiest, tenor; Christopher Deane, bass
1980 Mary Ann Hart, mezzo-soprano; Ben Holt, baritone
1983 Stefannie Pearce, soprano; Christopher Trakas, baritone
1986 Sally Steven, soprano; Ned Barth, baritone
1989 Rosa Vento, soprano; Tracey Scott Welborn, tenor
1992 Rebecca Turner, soprano; Bradley Garvin, bass-baritone
1995 Alison Buchanan, soprano; Stephen Powell, baritone
1998 Leslie Johnson, mezzo-soprano
2001 Tim Augustin, tenor; Audrey Babcock, mezzo-soprano
2004 Andrew Garland, baritone
2007 Eugene Chan, baritone
2010 Colleen Daly, soprano
2013 Soloman Howard, bass
2016 Maggie Finnegan, soprano
2019 Amanda Palmeiro, soprano
2023 Matthew Hill, tenor