| 1859 | William Henry Bliss |
| 1865 | Frederick Scotson Clark (later Organist, English Church, Stuttgart) |
| 1867 | George Purnell Merrick |
| 1871 | Joseph Cox Bridge (later Organist, Chester Cathedral and Director of Studies, Trinity College of Music) |
| 1876 | Hugh Brookbank |
| 1877 | Thomas Spinney (later Organist, St Edmund’s, Salisbury) |
| 1883 | Alfred Herbert Brewer (later Organist and Master of the Choristers, Gloucester Cathedral, and Composer) |
| 1887 | Francis Cunningham Woods (later Organist, Highgate School) |
| 1896 | Reginald Pullen |
| 1899 | James Heap (later Music Master, King Edward School, Bath) |
| 1904 | Cyril Winn (later HM Inspector of Schools Music) |
| 1908 | Lawrence Collingwood (later Conductor, Sadler’s Wells) |
| 1911 | Harry Sibree Price |
| 1913 | Herbert Frederick Grizelle |
| 1915 | Guillaume Francis Ormonde (later Organist and Master of the Choristers, Truro Cathedral) |
| 1920 | Peter Grenville Temple (later Director of Music, Campbell College) |
| 1923 | Alfred Ainger Negus (later Assistant Director of Music, Harrow School) |
| 1927 | Bernard Naylor (later Organist, The Queen’s College, Oxford, and Composer) |
| 1931 | Kenneth Forbes Malcolmson (later Director of Music and Precentor, Eton College) |
| 1935 | John Gardner (later Director of Music, Repton College and Composer) |
| 1939 | Patrick Forbes (later Director of Music, Ardingly College) |
| 1943 | Alec Wyton (later Director of Music, Cathedral of St John the Divine, Manhattan) |
| 1948 | Jared Armstrong (later Director of Music, Wellington College) |
| 1952 | David Wright (later Assistant Organist, New College, Oxford) |
| 1956 | Richard Latham (later Assistant Organist, Gloucester Cathedral) |
| 1959 | Julian Dams (Organist Emeritus, Sherborne Abbey) |
| 1961 | Christopher Herrick (later Assistant Organist, St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey) |
| 1963 | John Nicholl |
| 1965 | Julian Larkin (later Sub-Organist, Portsmouth Cathedral) |
| 1967 | Ian Parker |
| 1969 | James Parsons (later Director of Music, Oundle School) |
| 1971 | Stephen Ridgely-Whitehouse (later Director of Music, St Peter’s, Eaton Square) |
| 1973 | James Joseph (Opera North) |
| 1974 | Richard Vendome (later Leverhulme Fellow in Music, Oxford University, and Organist, Littlemore Parish Church) |
| 1975 | Mark Uglow (Director of Music, St Mary Abbots, Kensington) |
| 1977 | Mark Cyphus (Organist, Eleventh Church of Christ the Scientist, Baker St.) |
| 1979 | Michael Howell (Director of Music, Holy Trinity, Skipton) |
| 1981 | Mark Shepherd (Director of Music, Charterhouse) |
| 1983 | David Trendell (later Director of Music, King’s College, London and St Mary’s, Bourne St.) |
| 1985 | James Henderson (Director of Music, Sherborne School) |
| 1987 | Tony Henwood (Director of Music, Latymer Upper School) |
| 1989 | Richard Tanner (Director of Music, Rugby School) |
| 1991 | Robert Sharpe (Director of Music, York Minster) |
| 1993 | Charles Cole (Musical Director, London Oratory School Schola, Assistant Director of Music, Brompton Oratory; Duty Organist, Westminster Cathedral) |
| 1995 | Graeme McCullough (Director of Music, All Saints, Worcester MA) |
| 1997 | Tansy Castledine (Director of Music, Peterborough Cathedral) |
| 1999 | Richard Hills (Assistant Organist, St Mary’s, Bourne St.) |
| 2001 | Timothy Burke (Chorus Master, Opera North) |
| 2003 | Stephen Wood (Welsh National Opera) |
| 2005 | Carlene Mills |
| 2007 | Alistair Reid |
| 2009 | Joshua Hales (later Assistant Organist, Sheffield Cathedral) |
| 2011 | George de Voil (Director of Music, St James’s, Sussex Gardens; Assistant Director of Music, Wellington College) |
| 2013 | Tim Muggeridge (First Officer, Virgin Atlantic Airways) |
| 2015 | Bartosz Rafal Thiede (Director of Music, St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny; Choral Director, Kilkenny College) |
| 2017 | James Andrew Short (Director of Music, The English Church, Florence) |
| 2019 | Christopher Holman |
| 2021 | Miles Swinden |
| 2022 | Michael Koenig (first incumbent of the Graduate Organist post) |
| 2022 | Sungjoon Park |
