The locations, adjudicators and winners of The Delius Prize have been as follows:

First Prize winner in the 2013 Competition
Year | Location | Adjudicator | First Prize / Second Prize |
2004 | RAM | David Lloyd-Jones | David Worswick and Neil Georgeson |
2005 | RAM | Lionel Friend | Cappa Quartet / Shula Olivera (runner-up) |
2006 | RAM | Sir Charles Mackerras | Liv-Marie Fletcher and Timothy End / Edgar Bailey and Timothy End |
2007 | RAM | Piers Lane | Jessica Hayes and Christopher White* |
2008 | RAM | Bo Holten | Rita Mascagna and Michele Gamba / Mihai Cocea and Florian Mitrea |
2009 | BC | Julian Lloyd Webber | Rebeca Omordia / Anna Ovsyanikova |
2010 | BC | Paul Spicer | Claire Lees / Philip Handy |
2011 | BC | Mark Stone | Dominika Fehér / Natalie Hyde |
2012 | Chetham’s School, Manchester | Lionel Friend | Jon Stainsby and Se Ho Lee* |
2013 | BC | Stephen Threlfall | Amy Littlewood and Hetti Price* |
2014 | No Prize held | ||
2015 | RAM | Jeremy Dibble | Thomas Ang / Amy Goodwin and Daniel Espie |
2106 | RAM | Bo Holten | Joseph Havlat / Euterpe Quartet |
2017 | RAM | Stephen Barlow | James Heron and Thomas Ang / Courtenay Cleary and Thomas Ang |
2018 | RAM | David Hill | Ye Jin Choi and Kevin Suherman / Hannah Curtis and Gus Tredwell |
2019 | RBC | Paul Guinery | Tom Pickles and Olivia Chew / Jeffrey Armstrong and Orestis Magou |
2020 | No Prize held due to COVID-19 | ||
2021 | No Prize held due to COVID-19 | ||
2022 | RBC | Sir Mark Elder | Yujie Wang / Antonida Kocharova and Ishan Bhadra |
2024 | RAM | Stephen Threlfall |
RAM = Royal Academy of Music, London
BC = Birmingham Conservatoire
RBC = Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
* = no second prize awarded
Notes
- A runner-up was identified in 2005 but a Second Prize was first awarded in 2006
- The finalists at the RAM to 2008 were judged as duos; at the BC they were judged as soloists
- The members of the Cappa Quartet (winners in 2005) were Anthony Sabberton and Giovanni Guzzo (violins), Adam Newman (viola) and Brian O’Kane (‘cello)
- The members of the Euterpe Quartet (runners up in 2016) were Sally and Sasha Gorski (violins), Kim Becker (viola) and Olivia da Costa (cello).