The Silver Medal is the Company's oldest award and was inaugurated in 1889. The Medal was originally established as an annual award to the most distinguished student of the following colleges in rotation:
The Royal Academy of Music
The Royal College of Music
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama
This is the actual Silver Medal and ribboned miniature that was awarded to Mr Richard Standen in 1949. It is held in a gilt-blocked Royal Mint presentation case. Mr Standen (1912-87) was a bass baritone, specialising in oratorio and opera. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music; debuted at the Royal Albert Hall with the Bach Choir in 1949 and was a participant in BBC Promenade Concerts in the 1950s and 1960s.
Past Winners:
1890 - Stanley Hawley, pianist - RAM
1891 - Ethel Sharpe, pianist - RCM
1892 - Joseph Spaight, pianist - GSMD
1893 - Llewela Davis, pianist - RAM
1894 - Clara Butt, singer - RCM
1895 - Francis Lloyd Chandos, singer - GSMD
1896 - Percy Hilder Miles, violinist & composer - RAM
1897 - Samuel Grimson,violinist - RCM
1898 - Fanny Woolf, violinist - GSMD
1899 - Harry Farjeon, composer - RAM
1900 - Muriel Foster, singer - RCM
1901 - Mabel Monteith, pianist - GSMD
1902 - Adam Ahn von Carse, composer - RAM
1903 - Kate Elizabeth Anderson, singer - RCM
1904 - Henry Ernest Geehl, composer - GSMD
1905 - Edwin York Bowen, pianist & composer, RAM
1906 - James Friskin, pianist & composer - RCM
1907 - Frances Ethel Scarborough, pianist & composer - GSMD
1908 - Bertram Walton O'Donnell, cellist & composer - RAM
1909 - Ellen Constance Edwards, pianist - RCM
1910 - Maurice Gordon Burgess, pianist - GSMD
1911 - Olive Turner, pianist composer & singer - RAM
1912 - Eugène Aynsley Goossens, violinist composer & conductor - RCM
1913 - John Ernest Hope, organist - GSMD
1914 - Harriet Cohen, pianist - RAM
1915 - Herbert Howells - RCM
1916 - Lilian Stiles Allen - GSMD
1917 - Philip Augustus Levi - RAM
1918 - Doris Houghton - RCM
1919 - Margaret Fairless - GSMD
1920 - Gladys Chester - RAM
1921 - John Pennington - RCM
1922 - William Primrose - GSMD
1923 - Arthur Lawrence Sandford - RAM
1924 - Norman Greenwood - RCM
1925 - Roy Galbraith Henderson - RAM
1926 - John Turner - GSMD
1927 - Edgar Kendal Taylor - RCM
1928 - Stanley Pope - GSMD
1929 - Joan Coxon - RAM
1930 - Cyril James Smith - RCM
1931 - Julius Ungerson - GSMD
1932 - J. D. Yelland Richards - RAM
1933 - James Whitehead - RCM
1934 - Norman Walker - GSMD
1935 - Beatrix Marr - RAM
1936 - Lancelot Dossor - RCM
1937 - David Lloyd - GSMD
1938 - Denis Matthews - RAM
1939 - Arnold Ashby - RCM
1940 - Rose Hill - GSMD
1941 - Arnoldus van Wyk - RAM
1942 - Raymond O'Connell - RCM
1943 - Owen Brannigan - GSMD
1944 - Ronald Bertram Smith - RAM
1945 - Alan Loveday - RCM
1946 - Brenda Farrow - GSMD
1947 - Nona Liddell - RAM
1948 - Gervaise de Peyer - RCM
1949 - Richard Standen - GSMD (see image above)
1950 - Robin Wood - RAM
1951 - Denis Vaughan - RCM
1952 - John Heddle Nash - GSMD
1953 - Jean Harvey - RAM
1954 - Patricia Bishop - RCM
1955 - Maureen Guy - GSMD
In 1956 the gift of the Lady Corbett Memorial Fund, followed by that of the Bannerman Lockett Fund, enabled the Company to grant the Silver Medal annually to the RAM and RCM respectively. The Company decided at that time to also convert the GSMD's triennial award into an annual Medal by drawing on its own funds. However, in 1959 a generous gift of stock from Mr H. Seymour Fowler, a Liveryman, endowed the GSMD Silver Medal in the same way as the others.
1956
- Oswald Russell - RAM
- Malcolm Binns - RCM
- Michael Davis - GSMD
1957
- Margaret Barton - RAM
- Alan Rowlands - RCM
- Janet Coster - GSMD
1958
- Janice Williams - RAM
- Ian Lake - RCM
- Jill Nott-Bower - GSMD
1959
- Elizabeth Vaughan - RAM
- Frances Mason - RCM
- Audrey Deakin - GSMD
1960
- Jean Evans - RAM
- Brian Hawkins - RCM
- Keith Sellors - GSMD
1961
- Steuart Bedford - RAM
- Charles Tunnell - RCM
- Neil (Richard) van Allan - GSMD
1962
- Dennis Simons - RAM
- Graham Mackley Nicholls - RCM
- Hazel Holt - GSMD
1963
- Nigel Wickens - RAM
- Kenneth Montgomery - RCM
- Patricia Blans - GSMD
1964
- Faith Puleston - RAM
- Colin Kitching - RCM
- Colin Verrall - GSMD
1965
- John Wilbraham - RAM
- Stephen Savage - RCM
- Leslie Child - GSMD
1966
- Hugh Shecham - RAM
- Richard Weigall - RCM
- Teresa Cahill - GSMD
1967
- Peter Pettinger - RAM
- Michael Lankester - RCM
- Roy Gillard - GSMD
1968
- Norma Burrowes - RAM
- Dennis Somers - RCM
- Stuart Kale - GSMD
1969
- Stephen Adams - RAM
- Graham Bond - RCM
- Elizabeth Gale - GSMD
1970
- Linda Hibberd - RAM
- John Balme - RCM
- John York - GSMD
1971
- Barbara Lowe - RAM
- Howard Shelley - RCM
- Philip Pickett - GSMD
1972
- Felicity Lott - RAM
- John Forster - RCM
- Gary Peacock - GSMD
1973
- Derril Brown - RAM
- Simon Nicholls - RCM
- Mary Beverly - GSMD
1974
- Judith Jeffrey - RAM
- Phillippa Davies - RCM
- Josephine Bromage - GSMD
1975
- Sara Mousley - RAM
- Yitkin Seow - RCM
- Jaqueline Fugelle - GSMD
1976
- Lorna Washington - RAM
- Melvyn Tan - RCM
- Robert Penkett - GSMD
1977
- Nicola Lanzettas - RAM
- Januz Stechley - RCM
- Margaret Perry - GSMD
1978
- Vanessa Scott - RAM
- David Cowley - RCM
- Jane Marshall - GSMD
1979
- Lesley Garrett - RAM
- Kathryn Stott - RCM
- Jenny Miller - GSMD
1980
- Jean Rigby - RAM
- John Lenehan - RCM
- Christine Jackson - GSMD
1981
- Geoffrey Dolton - RAM
- Paul Coker - RCM
- Paul Parfitt - GSMD
1982
- Susan Bullock - RAM
- Barry Douglas - RCM
- Briony Shaw - GSMD
1983
- Gail Mortley - RAM
- Stephen Brya - RCM
- Maria Bovino - GSMD
1984
- Philip Lloyd-Evans - RAM
- Helen Choi - RCM
- Michael Stirling - GSMD
1985
- David Barrell - RAM
- Nicholas Unwin - RCM
- Robert Poulton - GSMD
1986
- Marie-Anne Hetherington - RAM
- Amanda Hurton - RCM
- Karen Jones - GSMD
1987
- Andrew Forbes - RAM
- Rolf Hind - RCM
- Anne Lewis - GSMD
1988
- Neal Davies - RAM
- Sarah Harper - RCM
- Lucy Parham - GSMD
1989
- Bethan Dudley - RAM
- Ian Jones - RCM
- David Mattinson - GSMD
1990
- Hilary Summers - RAM
- Rosemary Joshua - RCM
- Louise Hopkins - GSMD
1991
- Mark LeBrocq - RAM
- Katrina Makepeace-Lott - RCM
- Gwyn Hughes-Jones - GSMD
1992
- Nicholas Gedge - RAM
- Susan Blair - RCM
- Rachel Cannon - GSMD
1993
- Aled Hall - RAM
- Daniel Roberts - RCM
- Alison Buchanan - GSMD
1994
- Christopher Maltman - RAM
- Patrick Bailey - RCM
- Arisa Fugita - GSMD
1995
- Geraldine Mcgreevy - RAM
- John Wilson - RCM
- Louise Gannon - GSMD
1996
- Giselle Allen - RAM
- Dilshad Billimoria - RCM
- Kia Hui Tan - GSMD
1997
- Leslie Hollingsworth - RAM
- Richard Morrison - RCM
- William Purefoy - GSMD
1998
- Timothy Murfin - RAM
- James Rutherford - RCM
- Yuko Nishino - GSMD
1999
- Christopher Glynn - RAM
- Natasha Marsh - RCM
- Stephan Loges - GSMD
2000
- Cecilia Osmond - RAM
- Alexandra Wood - RCM
- Sa Chen - GSMD
2001
- Christopher Dixon - RAM
- Sally Pryce - RCM
- Alenka Ponjavic - GSMD
2002
- Sarah Tynan - RAM
- Julienne De Villiers - RCM
- Michiko Kobayashi - GSMD
2003
- Rebecca Bottone - RAM
- Gareth Twigg - RCM
- Claire Booth - GSMD
2004
- Ronan Collett - RAM
- Phillip Neil Martin - RCM
- So Ock Kim - GSMD
2005
- Kishani Jayasinghe - RAM
- Sofi Jeannin-Foissard - RCM
- Ciara Hendrick
2006
- Richard Rowe - RAM
- Mark Probert - RCM
- Vitan Ivanov - GSMD
2007
- Kaye Symonds-Joy - RAM
- Andrew Aarons - RCM
- Alexander Grynyuk - GSMD
2008
- George Humphreys - RAM
- Laura Lucas - RCM
- Alexander Karpeyev
2009
- Marta Gonçalves - RAM
- Ksenija Sidorova - RCM
- Jonathan Sells - GSMD
2010
- Marcus Farnworth - RAM
- Jiafeng Chen - RCM
- Brian O'Kane - GSMD
2011
- Sadie Fields - RAM
- Jessica Grimes - RCM
- Ashley Riches - GSMD - click here for more information
2012
- Gareth Brynmor John - RAM
- Sean Riley - RCM
- Jonathan Chan - GSMD
2013
- Florian Mitrea - RAM
- Pierre O'Reilly - RCM
- James Platt - GSMD
2014
- Andrey Lebedev - RAM - click here for more information
- Ryan Linham - RCM - click here for more information
- Rose Hsien - GSMD - click here for more information
2015
- Daniel Lebhardt - RAM
- Gemma Summerfield - RCM - click here for more information
- Marina Koka - GSMD - click here for more information
2016
- Ghislaine McMullin - RAM - click here for more information
- Alix Lagasse - RCM - click here for more information
- Michael Petrov - GSMD
2017
- Margarita Balanas - RAM - click here for more information
- Katie Coventry - RCM - click here for more information
- Ming Xie - GSMD - click here for more information
2018
- Anna Kondrashina - RAM - click here for more information
- Josephine Goddard - RCM - click here for more information
- Ema Nikolovska - GSMD - click here for more information
2019
- Charles Cunliffe - RAM - click here for more information
- Harry Thatcher - RCM - click here for more information
- Elisabeth Pion - GSMD - click here for more information
2020
- Harry Rylance - RAM - click here for more information
- Katy Thomson - RCM - click here for more information
- Ben Tarlton - GSMD - click here for more information
2021
- Ariel Lanyi - RAM - click here for more information
- Daniel Floyd - RCM - click here for more information
- Sabine Sergejeva - GSMD - click here for more information
2022
- Guylaine Eckersley - RAM - click here for more information
- Jack Campbell - RCM - click here for more information
- William Bracken - GSMD - click here for more information
2023
- Emma Rawicz - RAM - click here for more information
- Anian Wiedner - RCM - click here for more information
- Ana Balestra - GSMD - click here for more information