1980

Dean Billmeyer (USA) second place

Professor: Organ/Harpsichord
School of Music,
University of Minnesota

1983

Anne Page (Australia) second place

Professor of Harmonium,
Royal Academy of Music

Former Artistic Director of Cambridge Summer Recitals

Founder of the Cambridge Academy of Organ Studies

1984

no competition

1986

David Adams (Ireland)

Professor of Organ,
Royal Irish Academy of Music

1988

Andreas Liebig (Germany)

Former teacher at Music Academies in Lübeck and Oslo

Cantor at Sagene kirke, so called Nordkantkatedrale in Oslo (1996–2001)

1990

Kevin Bowyer (UK)

Organist to the University of Glasgow
Former Senior Lecturer in Organ at the RNCM

1992

Bengt Tribukait (Sweden)

Performs regularly (organ, harpsichord and piano) in Sweden and around the world. Successful recording artist.

1994

Fergal Caulfield (Ireland) & Jeann-Pierre Steyvers (Netherlands)
joint second place

1996

Neil Cockburn (UK)

Head of Organ Studies,
Mount Royal College Organ Academy

Curator of the Carthy Organ in the EPCOR Centre for Performing Arts' Jack Singer Concert Hall

1999

Shane Dauglas O'Neill (USA)

2002

Balint Karosi (Hungary)

Concert organist

2005

Guttom Guleng (Norway)

2008

Joseph Ripka (USA)

Concert organist