This award is presented annually by the Ball State University School of Music and its Music Alumni Association.
2007 Recipient
- Dr. Angelin Chang, 2007 Grammy Award Winner and Professor of Piano, Cleveland State University (Cleveland, Ohio)
Past Recipients
- 1958: Glenn Stepleton
- 1959: Ralph E. Hart
- 1960: Ethel Green Adams
- 1961: Carroll Copeland
- 1962: Walter Shaw
- 1963: Joseph Naumcheff
- 1964: Dee Stewart
- 1965: Marianna Riddick
- 1966: Wilbur Pursley
- 1967: Francis Barker
- 1968: Evelyn Messmore
- 1969: Marilyn Smiley
- 1970: Floyd Burt
- 1971: Judith Wyrick Abbott
- 1972: Don Neuen
- 1973: Ralph Horine
- 1974: Robert Miller
- 1975: Virginia Schoeff
- 1976: Kenneth Ward Matthews
- 1977: Peter Figert
- 1978: Patricia Taylor Pivnick
- 1979: Dorothy Copeland Elliott
- 1980: Lawrence J. Stewart
- 1982: Jacque Trussel
- 1983: Joseph Scagnoli
- 1984: Tim Lautzenheiser
- 1985: Jack Kelly
- 1986: Tom Preble
- 1987: Susan Taylor
- 1988: Erwin C. Mueller
- 1989: Mary Alice Cox
- 1990: Peggy Bennett
- 1991: Robert W. Shauver
- 1992: Jan Morris
- 1993: Marilyn Copeland Davidson
- 1994: Roberto Gonzalez
- 1995: Duilio Dobrin
- 1996: Laurence Kaptain
- 1997: James F. O'Donnell
- 1998: Patricia Wiehe
- 1999: Joe Barnard
- 2000: James Butz
- 2001: Penny Dimmick
- 2002: Susan Finger
- 2003: C. Brad Foley
- 2004: William D. Moylan
- 2005: Lynn Asper
- 2006: James Yarnell



