Musician of the Year
1961:          Leonard Bernstein
1962:          Leontyne Price
1963:          Erich Leinsdorf
1964:          Benjamin Britten
1965:          Vladimir Horowitz
1966:          Yehudi Menuhin
1967:          Leopold Stokowski
1968-69:     Birgit Nilsson
1970:          Beverly Sills
1971:          Michael Tilson Thomas
1972:          Pierre Boulez
1973:          George Balanchine
1974:          Sarah Caldwell
1975:          Eugene Ormandy
1976:          Arthur Rubinstein
1977:          Plácido Domingo
1978:          Alicia de Larrocha
1979:          Rudolf Serkin
1980:          Zubin Mehta
1981:          Itzhak Perlman
1982:          Jessye Norman
1983:          Nathan Milstein
1984:          James Levine
1985:          Philip Glass
1986:          Isaac Stern
1987:          Mstislav Rostropovich
1988:          Sir Georg Solti
1989:          Leonard Bernstein
1990:          Herbert von Karajan
1991:          Gian Carlo Menotti
1992:          Robert Shaw
1993:          Kurt Masur
1994:          Christa Ludwig
1995:          Marilyn Horne
1996:          The Juilliard String Quartet
1997:          James Galway
1998:          Seiji Ozawa
1999:          Andre Previn
2000:          Carnegie Hall (Concert Hall of the Century)
2001:          Martha Argerich
2002:          Sir Simon Rattle
2003:          Kronos Quartet
2004:          Wynton Marsalis
2005:          Karita Mattila
2006:          Esa-Pekka Salonen
2007:          Bernard Haitink
2008:          Anna Netrebko
2009:          Yo-Yo Ma
2010:          Riccardo Muti
2011:          Anne-Sophie Mutter
2012:          David Finckel and Wu Han

Composer of the Year
1992:          John Corigliano
1993:          Elliott Carter
1994:          Morton Gould
1995:          Gunther Schuller
1996:          Milton Babbitt
1997:          John Adams
1998:          Ned Rorem
1999:          Ellen Taafe Zwillich
2000:          Stephen Sondheim
2001:          Steve Reich
2002:          Lou Harrison
2003:          Tan Dun
2004:          George Crumb
2005:          Arvo Pärt
2006:          Osvaldo Golijov
2007:          William Bolcom
2008:          Kaija Saariaho
2009:          Christopher Rouse
2010:          Louis Andriessen
2011:          Thomas Adès
2012:          Meredith Monk

Conductor of the Year

1992:          Christoph von Dohnányi
1993:          Wolfgang Sawallisch
1994:          Gerard Schwarz
1995:          Michael Tilson Thomas
1996:          Valery Gergiev
1997:          Colin Davis
2000:          David Robertson
2001:          Kent Nagano
2003:          Franz Welser-Möst
2004:          Joseph Flummerfelt
2005:          Osmo Vänskä
2008:          Robert Spano
2009:          Marin Alsop
2011:          Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
2012:          Jaap van Zweden

Instrumentalist of the Year<
1992:          Yo-Yo-Ma
1993:          Mieczyslaw Horszowski
1994:          Leon Fleisher
1995:          Evgeny Kissin
1996:          Adolph Herseth
1998:          Stanley Drucker
1999:          Emmanuel Ax
2000:          Cho-Liang Lin
2002:          Midori
2003:          Evelyn Glennie
2005:          Christian Tetzlaff
2006:          Earl Wild
2007:          Pierre-Laurent Aimard
2008:          Charles Rosen
2010:          Joshua Bell
2012:          Gil Shaham

Vocalist of the Year
1992:          Thomas Hampson
1993:          Cecilia Bartoli
1994:          Cheryl Studer
1996:          Anne Sophie von Otter
1997:          Renée Fleming
1999:          David Daniels
2000:          Dawn Upshaw
2001:          Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
2002:          René Pape
2003:          Deborah Voigt
2004:          Susan Graham
2006:          Rolando Villazón
2007:          Barbara Cook
2009:          Stephanie Blythe
2010:          Elīna Garanča
2011:          Simon Keenlyside
2012:          Jonas Kaufmann

Ensemble of the Year
1995:          The Tokyo String Quartet
1997:          Beaux Arts Trio
1998:          Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
1999:          Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
2000:          Emerson String Quartet
2002:          Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
2004:          Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
2005:          Bang on a Can All-Stars
2006:          Ensemble intercontemporain
2008:          Chanticleer
2009:          Pacifica Quartet

Collaborative Pianist of the Year
1998:          Martin Katz
2010:          Warren Jones

Educator of the Year
2001:          Dorothy Delay
2005:          Joseph W. Polisi
2011:          Vivian Perlis