1st & Audience Award: Emad Zolfaghari
2nd & Transcriptions Prize: Kinga Wojdalska
3rd: Andy Park
Illumination Prize: Mao Konishi
Primrose Laureates
2021
2021
1st, Performance by a BIPOC Composer Prize & Audience Award: Natalie Loughran
2nd: Samuel Rosenthal
3rd: Nicholas Swensen
Transcriptions Prize: Keoni Bolding
2018
1st: Hae-Sue Lee
2nd: Zoë Martin-Doike
3rd: Leonid Plashinov-Johnson
2014
1st: Zhanbo Zheng
2nd: Manuel Vioque-Judd
3rd: Cong Wu
Honorable Mention: Born Lau, Kei Tojo
2011
1st: Ayane Kozasa
2nd: Elias Goldstein
3rd: Vicki Powell
Honorable Mention: Da Kyung Kwak, Matthew Lipman
2008
1st: Dimitri Murrath
2nd: Emily Deans
3rd: Molly Carr
2005
1st: Jennifer Stumm
2nd: David Aaron Carpenter, David Kim
3rd: Not awarded
Honorable Mention: Yu Jin
2003
1st: Che-Yen (Brian) Chen
2nd: Teng Li
3rd: Nils Mönkenmeyer
Honorable Mention: Amalia Aubert, Abigail Evans
2001
1st: Antoine Tamestit
2nd: Ula Žebriunaitė
3rd: Not awarded
1999
1st: Lawrence Power
2nd: Roland Glassl
3rd: Elizabeth Freivogel
1997
1st: Christina Castelli
2nd: Rita Porfiris
3rd: Karin Brown
1995
1st: Catherine Basrak
2nd: Joan DerHovsepian
3rd: Scott Lee
1993
1st: Nokuthula Ngwenyama
2nd: Kathryn Lockwood
3rd: Not awarded
1991
1st: Kirsten Docter
2nd: Kin-Fung Leung
3rd: Not awarded
1989
1st: Daniel Foster
2nd: Ming Pak
3rd: Kai Tang
1987
1st: Lynne Richburg
2nd: Carla-Maria Rodrigues
3rd: Paris Anastasiadis
1979
1st: Geraldine Walther
2nd: Jun Takahira
3rd: Patricia McCarty