Announcements: Scholarships and Awards

Cynthia Lee Wong wins the 2007 Robert Starer Composition Award for "On Baldness and Other 
Songs" for Soprano and Orchestra.

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The deadlines for the awards have passed; the previous announcements for the award submissions are shown below.
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Robert Starer Composition Award: Students who wish to compete for the Robert Starer Composition Award must submit their score by April 16, 2008. Address any questions to Professor Olan.

Elebash Dissertation Award: Students who wish to apply for the Elebash Dissertation Award must have submitted a proposal and supporting materials by 1 May 2008. Questions may be addressed to Professor Jeffrey Taylor. There is also a new series of modest stipends for those students who need to do field work or undertake travel in order to carry out a research project or begin to develop a proposal for a dissertation related to music in New York.

The guidelines for the stipends are as follows: The Elebash Committee invites proposals for small-scale research projects aimed at developing dissertation proposals dealing with any aspect of music and musical life in New York City, in the past or at present. Proposals should include (1) a clear outline of the topic, (2) a detailed description of the work to be carried out with Elebash support, and (3) a budget, estimating the cost of any travel, subsistence outside the New York area, video- or audiocassettes, photocopying, etc. The budget should not include the applicant's living expenses while in New York; for this item the Committee will divide the available funds equitably among all successful applicants in any year. Each applicant should submit one letter of recommendation from a faculty member who has read the proposal. Proposals are due 1 May 2008; decisions will be announced by May 1.

Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award in Music: Students who are defending dissertations in the upcoming months and who wish to have them eligible for the Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award must have defended the dissertation before April 1, 2008. Please note that dissertations defended after that date will be eligible for the 200 5Award and that dissertations must, in any event, be nominated for the award by one's defense committee. Address questions to Professor Olan.

Higini Anglès Dissertation Award: The Foundation for Iberian Music, a project of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Higini Anglès Dissertation Award.

Named after the eminent Catalan musicologist Higini Anglès (1888-1969), this prize of $1000 is awarded to a student of the music programs of The CUNY Graduate Center who has completed a dissertation on a subject that is in line with the mission of the Foundation for Iberian Music.

The dissertation committee of the Music Programs will nominate candidates for the award. The director of the Foundation for Iberian Music, in consultation with the director of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and members of the faculty of The Graduate Center’s Music Programs, determines eligible dissertations and selects award recipients.

 

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The following people won awards in the past:

Barry Brook Award

2007: Kyle Adams "A New Theory of Chromaticism from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century"

2006: Cathy Ragland,  “Ni Aquí ni Allá (Neither Here nor There): Música Norte a and the Mexican Working-Class Diaspora”

2005: Channan Willner, “Durational Pacing in Handel’s Instrumental Works: the Nature of Temporality in Music of the High Baroque.”

2004:  Marva Duerksen, for her dissertation Organicism and Music Analysis: Three Case Studies, and Philip Stoecker, for his dissertation, Studies in Post-Tonal Symmetry: A Transformational Approach.

2003: David Garcia won the Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award for "Arsenio Rodriquez: A Black Cuban Musician in the Dance Music Milieus of Havana, New York City, and Los Angeles."

2002: Marc Thorman "Speech and Text in Compositions by John Cage, 1950-1992," and Andrew White, "Good Invention Repaid with Interest: The Importance of Borrowing in Bach's Compositional Practice."


Robert Starer Award

2007: Pedro Malpica, for “Taripakuy,” a  trio for flute, cello and piano.

2006: Nathan Bowen, "Cassia" for flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano.

2005:  Pat Muchmore, “palimpsest alpha for solo cello and chamber orchestra” and Tolga Tuzun, “Cross-Sections/Kesitler 1. Blueprint for clarinet and piano.”

2004: Michael Capobianco, "String Trio."

2003: Gregg Wramage, "in shadows, in silence" for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, 'Cello, Percussion and Piano.

2002: Scott Ethier, "Spray" for Orchestra.

Higini Anglès Dissertation Award

2006:  Mauricio Molina, “Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula”
 

Other Recent Awards

Lucille Field Goodman Award: Heather Feldman and Julia Grella.

Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship: Stephen Amico

Elebash summer fellowships: Marc. E. Johnson, Andrea Saposnik, and Elizabeth Wollman

 Magnet Dissertation Year Fellowship: Catherine Losada

Jewish Foundation for Education of Women: Alessandra Ciucci

 

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