Distinguished Service Award Recipients
2010 Diane and Dr. Richard (Dick) Loomer (Vancouver, BC)
2008 Barbara Clark (Ottawa, ON)
Her Honour The Honourable Barbara A. Hagerman (Charlottetown, PEI)
2006 Henry Engbrecht (Winnipeg, MB), conductor and pedagogue
2004 Howard Dyck (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON), conductor and long-time host of CBC Radio Two's Choral Concert
2002 Patricia Abbott (Montreal QC), arts administrator and conductor
2000 Georgie Crawford (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC); founder and executive director of the English Montreal School Board (Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal) Chorale, 1980-2000
1998 Audrey Nutter (Winnipeg, MB), arts administrator; for 14 years of selfless dedication and inspiring work as executive director of the Manitoba Choral Association
1996 Chantal Masson-Bourque (Québec, QC), conductor, teacher; Jon Washburn (Vancouver, BC), conductor
1994 Madge McCready (Edmonton, AB), arts administrator
1992 Wayne Riddell (Montreal, QC), church musician, teacher, lecturer, conductor; Deral Johnson (London, ON), choral music educator
1990 Dr. Elmer Iseler (Toronto, ON), conductor
1988 Nicholas Goldschmidt, O.C., artistic director