Previous winners of the RPS Gold Medal: Complete list

We name all the previous recipients of the Royal Philharmonic Society's prestigious Gold Medal, introduced in 1870 to celebrate the centenary of Beethoven's birth

Published: November 18, 2020 at 11:41 am

When was the RPS Gold Medal first awarded?

The RPS Gold Medal was introduced in 1870, to celebrate the centenary of Beethoven's birth. It is the Royal Philharmonic Society's highest accolade and is awarded internationally to an outstanding musician.

List of previous winners of RPS Gold Medal

1871 William Sterndale Bennett Christine Nilsson Charles Gounod Joseph Joachim Helen Lemmens-Sherrington Arabella Goddard Charles Santley William G Cusins Theresa Tietiens Fanny Linzbauer

1872 Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa

1873 Hans von Bülow

1876 Louisa Bodda-Pyne Anton Rubinstein

1877 Johannes Brahms

1880 Stanley Lucas

1895 Adelina Patti

1897 Emma Albani Ignacy Jan Paderewski

1900 Edward Lloyd

1901 Eugene Ysaÿe

1902 Jan Kubelik

1903 Clara Butt

1904 Fritz Kreisler

1909 Louise Kirkby Lunn

1910 Emil Sauer

1912 Pablo Casals Harold Bauer Luisa Tetrazzini

1914 Muriel Foster

1916 Vladimir de Pachmann

1921 Henry Wood

1922 Alexander Mackenzie

1932 Alfred Cortot

1925 Frederick Delius Edward Elgar

1928 Thomas Beecham

1930 Ralph Vaughan Williams Gustav Holst

1931 Arnold Bax

1932 Sergey Rachmaninov

1934 Edward German Hamilton Harty

1935 Jean Sibelius

1936 Richard Strauss

1937 Felix Weingartner Arturo Toscanini

1942 Myra Hess

1944 Sergey Prokofiev Adrian Boult

1947 William Walton

1950 John Barbirolli

1953 Kathleen Ferrier

1954 Igor Stravinsky

1957 Bruno Walter

1959 Malcolm Sargent

1961 Artur Rubinstein

1962 Yehudi Menuhin

1963 Arthur Bliss Pierre Monteux

1964 Lionel Tertis Benjamin Britten

1966 Dmitri Shostakovich

1967 Zoltán Kodály

1970 Mstislav Rostropovich

1974 Vladimir Horowitz

1975 Olivier Messiaen

1976 Michael Tippett

1980 Clifford Curzon

1984 Herbert von Karajan

1986 Andres Segovia Witold Lutoslawski

1987 Leonard Bernstein

1988 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

1989 Georg Solti

1990 Claudio Arrau Janet Baker Bernard Haitink Sviatoslav Richter

1991 Isaac Stern

1992 Alfred Brendel

1994 Colin Davis

1995 Elliott Carter Rafael Kubelik

1997 Pierre Boulez

2000 Placido Domingo Simon Rattle

2002 Joan Sutherland

2003 Claudio Abbado

2004 György Ligeti

2005 Charles Mackerras

2007 Daniel Barenboim

2008 Henri Dutilleux

2009 Thomas Quasthoff

2010 Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2012 Mitsuko Uchida

2013 György Kurtág András Schiff

2014 John Tomlinson

2015 Martha Argerich Antonio Pappano

2016 Peter Maxwell Davies

2017 Charles Dutoit Mariss Jansons

2018 Jessye Norman

2019 Sofia Gubaidulina

2020 John Williams

2021 Vladimir Jurowski

2023

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