Past Presidents
Those listed below have previously served as President of the ISM.
- 2021-22 Deborah Keyser
- 2020-21 Professor Chris Collins
- 2019-20 Dr Jeremy Huw Williams
- 2018-19 Professor David Saint
- 2017-18 Susan Sturrock
- 2016-17 Nicolas Chisholm MBE
- 2015-16 Jeremy Jackman
- 2014-15 Professor Sir Barry Ife CBE
- 2013-14 Richard Hallam MBE
- 2012-13 Suzi Digby OBE (Lady Eatwell)
- 2011-12 Professor Paul Max Edlin
- 2010-11 Professor Gavin Henderson CBE
- 2009-10 Kenneth Ian Hÿtch
- 2008-09 Professor Roderick Swanston
- 2007-08 Roger Vignoles
- 2006-07 Colin Bradbury
- 2005-06 Robert Lloyd CBE
- 2004-05 Professor George Caird
- 2003-04 Professor John Morehen
- 2002-03 Guy Woolfenden OBE
- 2001-02 John Stephens OBE
- 2000-01 Sarah Walker CBE
- 1999-2000 Dr George McPhee MBE
- 1998-99 John Hosier CBE
- 1997-98 Professor George Pratt
- 1996-97 Ian Partridge CBE
- 1995-96 Emanuel Hurwitz CBE
- 1994-95 Sir Philip Ledger CBE
- 1993-94 Jack Brymer OBE
- 1992-93 Dame Gillian Weir DBE
- 1991-92 Sir John Manduell CBE
- 1990-91 Dr Lionel Dakers CBE
- 1989-90 William Mathias CBE
- 1988-89 Pamela Bowden
- 1987-88 Patrick Salisbury
- 1986-87 Louis Carus
- 1985-86 Meredith Davies CBE
- 1984-85 Sir David Lumsden
- 1983-84 John McCabe CBE
- 1982-83 Sir Charles Groves CBE
- 1981-82 Ronald Smith
- 1980-81 Evelyn Barbirolli OBE
- 1979-80 Ian Wallace OBE
- 1978-79 Sir David Willcocks CBE MC
- 1977-78 William Llewellyn MBE
- 1976-77 Ida Carroll OBE
- 1975-76 Richard Lewis CBE
- 1974-75 Willis Grant
- 1972-74 Leonard Blake
- 1971-72 Sir Charles Groves CBE
- 1970-71 Philip Cranmer
- 1969-70 Sir Peter Pears CBE
- 1968-69 Hervey Alan OBE
- 1967-68 Sir Anthony Lewis CBE
- 1966-67 Maurice Allen
- 1965-66 Frank Merrick CBE
- 1964-65 The Lord Menuhin OM KBE
- 1963-64 James Denny MBE
- 1962-63 Sir Jack Westrup
- 1961-62 Gerald Moore CBE
- 1960-61 Sir Thomas Armstrong
- 1959-60 Leslie Regan
- 1958-59 Sir William McKie MVO
- 1957-58 Douglas Fox OBE
- 1956-57 Sir Malcolm Sargent
- 1955-56 Sir Reginald Thatcher OBE MC
- 1954-55 W Greenhouse Allt CVO CBE
- 1953-54 Herbert Wiseman
- 1952-53 Walter Stanton
- 1951-52 Herbert Howells CH CBE
- 1950-51 Edric Cundell CBE
- 1949-50 Astra Desmond CBE
- 1948-49 Henry Havergal OBE
- 1947-48 Harold Craxton OBE
- 1946-47 Sir Ernest Bullock CVO
- 1945-46 Sir Thomas Armstrong
- 1941-45 Sir George Dyson KCVO
- 1940-41 Frederic Austin
- 1939-40 Sir Hugh Allen GCVO
- 1938-39 Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart CH
- 1937-38 Robert Forbes CBE
- 1936-37 Sir Percy Buck
- 1935-36 Sir Stanley Marchant, CVO
- 1934-35 Sir Edward Bairstow
- 1933-34 W Gillies Whittaker
- 1932-33 Harry Plunket Greene
- 1931-32 Bernard Johnson
- 1930-31 Sir John McEwen
- 1929-30 Sir Hugh Allen GCVO
- 1928-29 Sir Adrian Boult CH
- 1926-28 E Markham Lee
- 1925-26 Sir Walford Davies KCVO OBE
- 1924-25 Sir Donald Tovey
- 1923-24 Sir Landon Ronald
- 1922-23 Allen Gill
- 1921-22 Arthur Mann
