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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
| 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" |
| Pisk Prize Guidelines |