Past Awards
2024: Antares Boyle, “Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 4 (2023).
Committee: Will Ayers (chair), Landon Morrison (2023 award co-winner), C. Catherine Losada
2023: Landon Morrison, “Encoding Post-Spectral Sound: Kaija Saariaho’s Early Electronic Music at IRCAM, 1982–87.” Music Theory Online 27, no. 3 (2021); and Mariusz Kozak, “Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Violin Phase and the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?” Music Theory Online 27, no. 2 (2021).
Committee: Benjamin Levy (chair), Jocelyn Ho (2022 award winner), Abigail Shupe
2022: Jocelyn Ho, “Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Tōru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II”. Music Theory Online 27, no. 4 (2021).
Committee: Antares (Tara) Boyle (chair), Drake Andersen (2021 award co-winner), and Sumanth Gopinath (2021 award co-winner)
2021: Drake Andersen, “(Per)forming Open Form: A Case Study with Earle Brown’s Novara.” Music Theory Online 26, no. 3 (2020), and Sumanth Gopinath, “Departing to Other Spheres’: Psychedelic Science Fiction, Perspectival Embodiment, and the Hermeneutics of Steve Reich’s Four Organs.” In Rethinking Reich (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Committee: Amy Bauer (chair), Philip Rupprecht (2020 winner), and William Ayers
2020: Philip Rupprecht, “Rhythmic Dignity: Motive, Signal, and Flux in the Music of James Dillon.” Musiktheorie, 34, no. 4 (2019), pp. 347–76.
Committee: Brian Moseley (chair), Judith Lochhead, and George Adams