Other Recipients of the Award
| 2023 | Manuel Piazza | Organ |
| 2022 | Aaron Tan | Organ |
| 2021 | Martin Jones | Organ |
| 2020 | Thomas Burton | Choral Conducting |
| 2019 | Jocelyn Lafond | Organ |
| 2018 | Gabrielle Gaudreault | Choral Conducting |
| 2016 | Kathleen Allan | Choral Conducting |
| 2012 | Joel Tranquilla | Choral Conducting |
| 2010 | Geneviève Leclair | Orchestral Conducting |
| 2008 | Meghan Forsyth | Research in Canadian Music |
| 2006 | Marie-Ève Scarfone | Collaborative Piano |
| 2004 | The Tokai String Quartet of Toronto (Amanda Goodburn and Csaba Koczo, violins, Yosef Tamir, viola, and Rafael Hoekman, cello) The Lloyd-Carr Harris String Quartet of Montreal (Emmanuel Vukovich and Aya Ito, violins, Frédéric Lambert, viola, and Hannah Addario-Berry, cello) |
Chamber Music |
| 2002 | Paul Jeffrey | Brass Instruments |
| 2001 | Jonathan Oldengarm | Organ |
| 2000 | Cynthia Yeh | Percussion Instruments |
| 1999 | Vincent Parizeau | Double Reeds (Bassoon) |
| 1998 | Rosemary Thomson | Conducting Community & Youth Orchestras |
| 1997 | Chester Jankowski | Composition |
| 1996 | Janet Brenneman | Music Education |
| 1995 | Grant Wenaus | Piano Accompaniment |
| 1994 | Karen Pegley Andrew Zinck |
Canadian Music - musicology |
| 1993 | Meredith Hall | Early Music |
| 1992 | The Hammerhead Consort | Chamber Music |
| 1991 | Jens Lindemann James Sommerville |
Brass Instruments (Trumpet) Brass Instruments (French horn) |
| 1990 | Virginia Caputo | Ethnomusicology - Children's Songs |
| 1989 | David Gerry | Pedagogy |
| 1988 | Marc-André Doran | Young Musician - Organ |
| 1987 | Bernard Labadie | Choral & Orchestral Conducting |
| 1986 | Robert May | Composition |
| 1985 | Gayle Young | Publication of Biography of Hugh Le Caine |
