| 1945 | Edward Cuthbert Bairstow |
| 1946 | Reginald Shephard Rose |
| 1947 | Archie W Sargent |
| 1948 | Francis Alan Jackson |
| 1949 | H Reginald Mason |
| 1950 | Frederick Waine |
| 1951 | Reginald Shephard Rose |
| 1952 | Edmund Stanley Walton |
| 1953 | Benjamin Dawson |
| 1954 | Benjamin Summerton |
| 1955 | William Allen Bean |
| 1956 | George James Stacey |
| 1957 | Joseph Samuel McElheran |
| 1958 | Walter Hartley |
| 1959 | Benjamin Dawson |
| 1960 | Bernard J Porter |
| 1961 | Ronald Perrin |
| 1962 | William Addamson |
| 1963 | Alec C Cooper |
| 1964 | Evelyne G Bowmer |
| 1965 | George L Baggaley |
| 1966 | Tom Ward |
| 1967 | Alec Brodie |
| 1968 | Michael Minns |
| 1969 | Avena Helen Norfor |
| 1970 | Lloyd D Smith |
| 1971 | Colin McGarritty |
| 1972 | Michael Phipps |
| 1973 | Jack Judson |
| 1974 | Alfred Alcock |
| 1975 | A Austin Winterbottom |
| 1976 | Peter Whitehead |
| 1977 | Ruth Smith |
| 1978 | Maureen Murfitt-Swindells |
| 1979 | Geoffrey Hunter |
| 1980 | Robert Hall |
| 1981 | Michael Latham |
| 1982 | Richard Crosby |
| 1983 | Peter Maw |
| 1984 | Eric Grewer |
| 1985 | David Templeman |
| 1987 | Lloyd D Smith |
| 1988 | Geoffrey Coffin |
| 1989 | George Pilling |
| 1991 | Douglas Heath |
| 1993 | Nicholas Page |
| 1994 | David Simpson |
| 1995 | Alan Aspinal |
| 1996 | Peter Whitehead |
| 1997 | Maureen Murfitt-Swindells |
| 1998 | Jean Pilling |
| 1999 | Edmund Cooke |
| 2000 | Alfred Boddison |
| 2001 | Cynthia Wood |
| 2002 | Edmund Cooke |
| 2003 | David Simpson |
| 2004 | Philip Paul |
| 2005 | Phillip Sangwine |
| 2007 | Andrew Roberts |
| 2009 | Adrian Crawford |
| 2011 | Raymond Sturdy |
| 2013 | Nigel Holdsworth |
| 2015 | Joan Johnson |
| 2017 | Maximillian Elliott |
| 2019 | John Scott Whiteley |
| 2021 | John Morley |
| 2023 | Alistair Timmis |
York & District Organists' Association
