The Company’s Gold Medal
The Company awards a Gold Medal to outstanding members of the music profession and members of the Livery. The first awards were to Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Walter Parratt in 1903.
1903 Sir Walter Parratt; Sir Hubert Parry; Charles Rube; James Coward; Thomas Southgate; Cyril Pearson
1905 Arthur Hill; John Stainer; Thomas Shaw-Hellier; William Cummings; Carl Hentschel
1907 Sir Charles Santley
1911 Charles Harriss
1914 William Ash; Claudius Ash
1916 Albert Williams; Phyllis Lett
1920 Walter Damrosch
1945 David Crawley
1966 Professor Nketia
1967 Alastair Crewdson
1978 Gerald Lockett
1988 Richard Crewdson
1993 Walter Ficker
1999 Antony Rubinstein
1999 Sir David Willcocks
2000 Lord Harewood KBE
2001 Dr Robin Orr
2002 Jeffery Lockett
2002 John Dankworth CBE
2003 Michael Berkeley
2003 Richard Hickox CBE
2004 Ruggerio Ricci
2006 Sir Charles Mackerras
2008 Richard Rodney Bennett
2009 Alfred Brendel KBE
2011 Adrian Davis
2013 Margaret Alford
2015 Judith Weir CBE
2018 Gavin Barrett
2019 John Rubinstein
2019 Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE
2020 Nicola Benedetti CBE
2021 Leslie East OBE