The Walter Willson Cobbett Medal is awarded annually by the Worshipful Company of Musicians "in recognition of services to Chamber Music". It was established in 1924 and endowed with £50 by Walter Willson Cobbett (1847–1937), an amateur violinist and expert on chamber music who went on to serve as the company's master in 1928–29. The medal is silver-gilt and features a portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven. Recipients 1924: Thomas Frederick Dunhill 1925: Mrs. Frederick Coolidge (United States) 1926: Alfred J. Clements 1927: Harry Waldo Warner 1928: Edward Elgar 1929: Frank Bridge 1930: Ralph Vaughan Williams 1931: Arnold Bax 1932: John Ireland 1933: Charles Wood (awarded posthumously) 1934: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs 1935: Richard Watkins 1936: Donald Tovey 1937: Pablo Casals 1938: Ivor James 1939: Herbert Withers 1940: Isolde Menges 1942: Ernest Walker 1943: Sidney Griller 1944: Myra Hess 1945: Herbert Walenn 1946: Lionel Tertis 1947: William Walton 1948: Michael Tippett 1949: Gordon Jacob 1950: Dennis Brain 1951: Gerald Moore 1952: Frederick Thurston 1953: Arthur Bliss 1954: Leon Goossens 1955: Edmund Rubbra 1956: Arthur Benjamin 1957: Thurston Dart 1958: Kathleen Long 1959: Yehudi Menuhin 1960: George Malcolm 1961: Lennox Berkeley 1962: Anne Macnaghten 1963: Norbert Brainin 1964: Emmanuel Hurwitz 1965: Joan Dickson 1966: Howard Ferguson 1967: Kenneth Leighton 1968: Elizabeth Maconchy 1969: Hugh Bean 1970: Cecil Aronowitz 1971: Watson Forbes 1972: Denis Matthews 1975: Janet Craxton 1976: Gordon Crosse 1977: Ivor Newton 1978: Wilfrid Parry 1979: Edwin Roxburgh 1981: Hugh Maguire 1985: Christopher Hogwood 1986: Philip Jones 1987: Peter Maxwell Davies 1988: Evelyn Barbirolli 1989: Jack Brymer 1990: Sidonie Goossens 1991: Eileen Croxford 1992: Elgar Howarth 1993: Nona Liddell 1994: Irvine Arditti 1995: Levon Chilingirian 1996: Amelia Freedman 1997: Yfrah Neaman 1998: David Takeno 1999: Richard Sotnick 2000: Christopher Rowland 2001: William Lyne 2002: Julian Bream 2003: John Woolf 2004: Sigmund Nissel 2005: Peter Cropper 2006: John Underwood 2007: Martin Lovett 2008: Joseph Horovitz 2009: Graham Johnson 2010: Stephen Dodgson 2011: Stephen Kovacevich 2012: Malcolm Singer 2013: Susan Tomes 2014: Richard Ireland 2015: Trevor Pinnock 2016: Steven Isserlis, CBE 2017: Kenneth Sillito 2018: William Bennett, OBE 2019: John Gilhooly, OBE References British music awards Chamber music Medals