2010 – Clayton Parr
DePaul University

2008 – Donald Caldwell
Pasadena, CA  

2007 – Leonard Riccinto*
Measure for Measure

 2006 – Jerry Blackstone
University of Michigan

 2004 - Jameson Marvin
Harvard University

 2002 - Gerald Polich
Kansas State University

2001 - Bruce Trinkley
Pennsylvania State University

2000 - Rev. Richard H. Trame, S.J.*
Loyola Marymount University
IMC Executive Secretary, emeritus

1998 - Leonard de Paur*
DePaur Chorus

1996 - Walter Gould*
Lawson-Gould Publishers

1994 - Simon Carrington
Kings Singers, founder

1992 - John Low Baldwin*
Hamilton College
University Glee Club of New York

1990 - Carl Zytowski
University of California, Santa Barbara

1988 - Morris Hayes*
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

1987 - Wendell Whalum*
Morehouse College

1986 - Bruce McInnes
Amherst College
Mastersingers USA

1985 - Robert Cutler*
Lehigh University

1984 - Elliot Forbes*
Harvard University

1983 - Fenno Heath*
Yale University

1982 - F. Austin Walter*
Rutgers University

1981 - William L. Dawson*
Tuskegee Institute

1980 - Allen C. Crowell
University of Georgia

*Deceased