Bernard Ocko, violinist 1926 Phyllis Kraeuter, cellist Margaret Hamilton, pianist Sonia Skalka, pianist 1927 Dorothy Kendrick, pianist William Sauber, pianist Sadah Schwartz-Shuchari, violinist Daniel Saidenberg, cellist Julian Kahn, cellist 1928 Adele Marcus, pianist Helen Berlin, violinist Louis Kaufman, violinist Olga Zundel, cellist George Rasely, tenor August Werner, baritone 1930 Helen McGraw, pianist Ruth Culbertson, pianist Mila Wellerson, cellist Louise Bernhardt, contralto 1931 Lillian Rehberg Goodman, cellist Marguerite Hawkins, soprano Edwiria Eustis, contralto Kurtis Brownell, tenor 1932 Milo Miloradovich, soprano Foster Miller, bass-baritone Dalies Frantz, pianist Huddie Johnson, pianist Inez Lauritano, violinist 1933 Catherine Carver, pianist Harry Katzman, violinist 1934 Joseph Knitzer, violinist Ruby Mercer, soprano 1935 Benjamin De Loache, baritone Judith Sidorsky, pianist Aniceta Shea, soprano Harvey Shapiro, cellist Florence Vickland, soprano Marshall Moss, violinist 1936 Frederick Buldrini, violinist 1937 Jorge Bolet, pianist Ida Krehm, pianist Pauline Pierce, mezzo-soprano Maurice Bialkin, cellist 1938 Carroll Glenn, violinist 1939 Mara Sebriansky, violinist William Horne, tenor Zadel Skolovsky, pianist Gertrude Gibson, soprano 1940 Abbey Simon, pianist Harry Cykman, violinist Thomas Richner, pianist 1941 William Kapell, pianist Robert Mann, violinist Lura Stover, soprano 1942 Jane Rogers, contralto Annette Elkanova, pianist David Sarser, violinist 1943 Dolores Miller, violinist Constance Keene, pianist Ruth Geiger, pianist 1944 Jeanne Therrien, pianist Jean Carlton, soprano Carol Brice, contralto 1945 Jane Boedeker, mezzo-soprano Paula Lenchner, soprano 1946 Leonid Hambro, pianist Jeanne Rosenbium, pianist Anahid Ajemian, violinist 1947 Berl Senofsky, violinist Abba Bogin, pianist Jane Carlson, pianist 1948 Sidney Harth, violinist Paul Olefsky, cellist Theodore Lettvin, pianist 1949 Lorne Munroe, cellist 1950 Angelene Collins, soprano Esther Glazer, violinist Betty Jean Hagen, violinist Margaret Barthel, pianist 1951 June Kovach, pianist Laurel Hurley, soprano Joyce Flissler, violinist 1952 Diana Steiner, violinist Yoko Matsuo, violinist Lois Marshall, soprano 1953 Gilda Muhlbauer, violinist Lee Cass, bass-baritone Georgia Laster, soprano 1954 William Doppmann, pianist Jean Wentworth, pianist Jules Eskin, cellist Martha Flowers, soprano 1955 Ronald Leonard, cellist Mary MacKenzie, contralto Nancy Cirillo, violinist 1956 Donald McCall, cellist Wayne Connor, tenor George Katz, pianist 1957 Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano Angelica Lozada, soprano Michael Grebanier, cellist 1958 Joseph Schwartz, pianist Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano Elaine Lee, violinist 1959 Howard Aibel, pianist Sophia Steffan, soprano Ralph Votapek, pianist 1960 Joseph Silverstein, violinist 1961 Werner Torkanowsky, conductor 1964 Elizabeth Mosher, soprano 1968 Jorge Mester, conductor 1971 Kun-Woo Paik, pianist Zola Shaulis, pianist 1972 Robert Davidovici, violinist 1973 Voice Edmund LeRoy, baritone First Prize Barbara Hendricks, soprano Second Prize Susan Davenny Wyner, soprano