2022–2023 Winners
Doctoral competition
Department of Performance
Winner: Bailey Wantuch
Grant application: “Nikolai Roslavets’s Violin Sonatas, 1913-1930: the Painterly Influence of Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematism”.
Award $12,000
Department of Music Research
Winner: Jeremy Tatar
Grant application: “Metric Transformations in Hip-Hop Sampling Practice”
Award $12,000
Master’s Competition
Department of Performance
Winner: Charles Chiovato Rambaldo
Grant application: “Arrangement of Debussy for two marimbas”
Award $5,000
Department of Music Research
Winner: Farzad Daemi Milani
Grant application: “Persian-Arabic Seventeen-Tone Temperament: A Microtonal Extension to the Heptatonic Scale”
Award $5,000
2021–2022 Winners
Doctoral competition
Department of Performance
Winner: Stuart Jackson
Grant application: “The Ghost in the Machine: Exploring Human/Machine Interaction in the Works of David Tudor and Pierre Boulez”.
Award $11,000
Department of Music Research
Winner: Shanti Nachtergaele
Grant application: “The Professional Double Bassist, 1760–1890: A Sociomaterial History”
Award $11,000
Master’s Competition
Department of Performance
Winner: Dylan Hillerbrand
Grant application: Singing Race: The Moresche of Orlando di Lasso”
Award $5,000
Department of Music Research
Winner: Tania Nazare Rodrigues
Grant application: “The Anime Sound: Compositional Elements in Anime Music”
Award $5,000
2020–2021 Winners
Doctoral competition
Department of Music Performance
Winner: Alicia Choi
Grant application: "The String Quartet Seminar: An Underutilized Course Format in Higher-Education"
Award: $11,000
Learn more about Alicia and her research
Department of Music Research
Winner: Hester Bell-Jordan
Grant application: "'Notorious ladies' and 'charming daughters': Gender and Work in Piano Making and Music Publishing around 1800"
Award: $11,000
Learn more about Hester and her research
Master's competition
Department of Music Performance
Winner: Christopher Keach
Grant application: "Trumpet Music by Women Composers: A Detailed Database to Promote Greater Diversity in Trumpet Repertoire"
Award: $5,000
Learn more about Christopher and his research
Department of Music Research
Winner: Chooi Chong
Grant application: "The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Postcolonial Context"
Award: $5,000
Learn more about Chooi and her research
2019–2020 Winners
Doctoral competition
Department of Music Performance
Winner: Shulamit Sarid
Grant application: “Welcome to the Jungle –2Cellosand the Genre-Audience Relationship”
Award: $11,000
Department of Music Research
Winner: James Donaldson
Grant application:“Topics and Formal Processes in Post-Tonal Music”
Award: $11,000
Master's competition
Department of Music Performance
Winner: Kiarra Saito-Beckman
Grant application: “Forgotten Composers: Reviving the Music of Ethel Smyth and Germaine Tailleferre”
Award: $5,000
Department of Music Research
Winner: Mikhail Mazin
Grant application: “Governing the Moscow Conservatory, 1889-1905”
Award: $5,000
2018-2019 Winners
Doctoral competition
Department of Music Performance
Winner: Hannah Darroch
Grant application: "Cultural convergences: Exploring the emulation of traditional Māori flutes in New Zealand's contemporary classical music"
Award: $11,000
Department of Music Research
Winner: Alessandra Ignesti
Grant application: "Ippolito Baccusi and the musical culture of northeastern Italy"
Learn more about Hannah and Alessandra's projects.
Master's competition
Department of Music Performance
Winner: Anabel Gutierrez
Grant application: "First-time tour of the harp in Cuba"
Award: $5,000
Department of Music Research
Winner: Rachel Hottle
Grant application: "Unconventional formal structures and function in the music of Joanna Newsom"
Learn more about Anabel and Rachel's projects.
2017-2018 Winners
Doctoral competition
Department of Music Research
Winner: Kristin Franseen
Grant application: “Ghosts in the Archive: The Queer Knowledge and Public Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson”
Award: $10,000
Master's competition
Department of Music Performance
Winner: Jessica Tsang
Grant application: "Personally curated, yet easily disposable"
Award: $5,000
Department of Music Research
Winner: Jeremy Tatar
Grant application: “Tonal Practice in the Early Twentieth Century”
Award: $5,000