Past Guest Composers
| 2012 | Lowell Liebermann |
| 2011 | Tania León |
| 2010 | Robert Carl |
| 2009 | Charles Argersinger |
| 2008 | Eric Whitacre |
| 2007 | John Corigliano |
| 2006 | Ellsworth Milburn |
| 2005 | David Crumb |
| 2004 | Stephen Michael Gryc |
| 2003 | Chen Yi |
| 2002 | Donald Freund |
| 2001 | Morten Lauridsen |
| 2000 | Thomas Benjamin |
| 1999 | Jan Krzywicki |
| 1998 | Martin Rokeach |
| 1997 | Libby Larsen |
| 1996 | no festival this year |
| 1995 | Chinary Ung |
| 1994 | Brent Pierce |
| 1993 | James Mobberley |
| 1992 | William Kraft |
| 1991 | Jeffrey Hass |
| 1990 | Elliott Schwartz |
| 1989 | Michael Schelle |