This award is made solely on the criteria of effective teaching and recognizes a full-time faculty member who, by means of unusually effective teaching, has contributed significantly as a performer, composer, or teacher to the education of students.
2023-2024 Dariusz Terefenko
2022-2023 Matthew Curlee and Christel Thielmann
2021-2022 Paul O’Dette
2020-2021 James VanDemark
2019-2020 Mark Scatterday
2018-2019 Renée Jolles
2017-2018 Anne Lindblom Harrow
2016-2017 Barry Snyder
2015-2016 Douglas Humpherys
2014-2015 Steven Daigle
2013-2014 Jonathan Baldo
2012-2013 Chien-Kwan Lin
2011-2012 Carol Webber
2010-2011 Natalya Antonova
2009-2010 Kenneth Grant
2008-2009 Reinhild Steingröver
2007-2008 Nicholas Goluses
2006-2007 Alan Harris
2005-2006 Roger Freitas
2004-2005 David Higgs
2003-2004 John Graham
2002-2003 John Maloy
2001-2002 Vincent Lenti
2000-2001 Bonita Boyd
1999-2000 Nelita True
1998-1999 Masako Toribara
1997-1998 Sydney Hodkinson
1996-1997 John Beck
1995-1996 Donna Brink Fox
1994-1995 Catherine Tait
1993-1994 Jean Barr
1992-1993 Steven Doane
1991-1992 Steven Laitz
1990-1991 Gretchen Wheelock
1989-1990 Patrick Macey
1988-1989 Samuel Adler
1987-1988 Ruth Gross
1986-1987 Donald Hunsberger
1985-1986 Russell Saunders
1984-1985 Richard Killmer
1983-1984 Rayburn Wright
1982-1983 K. David Van Hoesen
1981-1982 Jerald Graue
1980-1981 Jan DeGaetani
1979-1980 Robert Spillman
1978-1979 Maria Luisa Faini
1977-1978 D. Stanley Hasty
1976-1977 Gilbert Kilpack
1975-1976 Francis Tursi
1974-1975 David Craighead
1974-1975 Dorothy Payne