Paul A. Pisk Award Winners
This Prize was inaugurated in 1991 to recognize the most outstanding scholarly paper read at an Annual Meeting of the Society by a graduate music student. See the award guidelines for full details.
RECIPIENTS
| 2016 | Braxton D. Shelley (University of Chicago) "'Tuning up' in Contemporary Gospel Performance" |
| 2015 | Frederick G. C. Reece (Harvard University) "'How to Forge a Missing Link: Winfried Michel’s 'Haydn' and the Style-Historical Imagination" |
| 2014 | Mathieu Langlois (Cornell University) "'Mere Bastard Sounds': Dandrieu and Musical Pictorialism" |
| 2013 | David Chapman (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) "Improvisation, Watermelons, and Steve Reich's Piano Phase" |
| 2012 | Barbara Swanson (Case Western Reserve University), “Old Chant, New songs: Plainchant and Monody in Early Modern Rome” |
| 2011 | Mark Ferraguto (Cornell University) “Beethoven à la moujik: Russianness and Learned Style in the ‘Rasumovsky’ String Quartets” |
| 2010 | Remi Chiu (McGill University) “St. Sebastian Motets as Curatives for the Plague” |
| 2009 | Rebekah Ahrendt (University of California, Berkeley) “’Allons en paix, rebatir nos maisons': Staging the réfugié experience” |
| 2008 | Kimberly Anne Francis
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “’Il reste encore des questions’: Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky Develop the Symphonie de Psaumes” |
| 2007 | Emily Abrams Ansari (University of Western Ontario/Harvard University)
“Aaron Copland and Cultural Diplomacy: 'Un-American' Composer Meets Cold War Ambassador” |
| 2006 | Jesse Rodin (Harvard University)
“‘When in Rome...’: What Josquin Learned in the Sistine Chapel” |
| 2005 | Paul Berry (Yale University)
“‘Alte Liebe': Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, and the Poetics of Musical Memory” |
| 2004 | Robert Fallon (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Record of Realism in Messiaen's Bird Style” |
| 2003 | Ted Dumitrescu (Universiteit Utrecht)
“A Flemish-Italian Gift to the Tudors” |
| 2002 | Silvio dos Santos (Brandeis University)
“Ascription of Identity: The Bild Motif and the Character of Lulu” |
| 2001 | Jennifer Shaw (SUNY Stony Brook)
“New Performance Sources and Old Modernist Productions: Die Jakobsleiter in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" |
| 2000 | Gundula Kreuzer (St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford)
"'Oper in Kirchengewande': Verdi's Requiem and the Anxiety of the German Nation" |
| 1999 | Hilary Poriss (University of Chicago)
"Making their Way Through the World": Italian One-Hit Wonders, 1825-1850 |
| 1998 | No award |
| 1997 | Cormac Newark (Christ Church, Oxford)
"‘Mille sentiments confus l’agitent’: Understanding La Muette de Portici" |
| 1996 | Stefano Castelvecchi (University of Chicago)
"Sentimental and Anti-Sentimental in Da Ponte’s and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro" |
| 1995 | Kate van Orden (University of Chicago)
"‘Chansons plus menestrieres que musiciennes’: Singing to Timbres in Late Sixteenth-Century France" |
| 1994 | Kelley Harness (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"La flora (1628): A Symbolic Transfer of Power in Early Seventeenth-Century Florence" |
| 1993 | John R. Clevenger (Eastman School of Music)
"Achille at the Conservatoire (1872–1884)" |
| 1992 | Luisa Vilar-Paya (University of California, Berkeley)
"Schoenberg’s Re-centerings: Pitch Organization and Formal Processes in Early Twelve-Tone Music" |
| 1991 | Mark W. Stahura (University of Chicago)
"Refuting the Ripieno in Handel’s Orchestra" |
