Awards
The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music has established funds to support student work in topics on music in the eighteenth century. Please see below for information on the awards, the application process and lists of past winners.
The Sterling E. Murray Award for Student Travel
The Murray Award supports student travel to the Society’s biannual meetings. For more details, including how to apply, click here.
Past Winners
- 2022: Salzburg, joint with MSA
- Mitia Ganade D’Acol (Indiana University)
- 2021: Virtual Conference
- Ashley Greathouse (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music)
- Nathaniel Mitchell (Princeton University)
- Holly Roberts (University of Oregon)
- Morton Wan (Cornell University)
- 2018: Tallahassee, FL
- Michael Vincent (University of Florida)
- 2016: Austin, TX
- The prize was not awarded in 2016.]
- 2014: Bethlehem, PA
- Sarah Bushey (University of Florida)
- Evan Cortens (Cornell University)
- 2012: Charleston, SC
- Erick Arenas (Stanford University)
- Alison DeSimone (University of Michigan)
- Kimary Fick (University of North Texas)
- John Romey (Case Western Reserve University)
Student Paper Prize
This award is given to the best student paper read at a biennial meeting of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. The winner is chosen by the program committee, and students must submit their papers in advance to be considered.
Past Winners
- 2022: Salzburg, joint with MSA
- [No prize awarded in 2022]
- 2021: Virtual Conference
- Callum Blackmore (Columbia University)
- 2018: Tallahassee, FL
- Halvor Hosar (University of Auckland)
- 2016: Austin TX
- Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska (Northwestern University)
- 2014: Bethlehem, PA
- Devin Burke (Case Western Reserve University)
- 2012: Charleston, SC
- Dianne Goldman (Northwestern University)
- 2010: Brooklyn, NY
- Lisa de Alwis (University of Southern California)
The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Award
This award recognizes a graduate student who is currently working on a thesis or dissertation on topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion, or accessibility in eighteenth-century music scholarship. For more details, including how to apply, click here.
Past Winners
- 2022: Wayne A. Weaver (Cambridge University)
- The SECM is pleased to present its inaugural DEIA Award to Wayne Weaver (Cambridge University) for his dissertation, “Space, Race & Music in Late 18th-Century Kingston, Jamaica.” Weaver’s important and ambitious project reconstructs the sonic landscape of the Caribbean city, considering the contributions of Euro-colonial composers (principally, the organist Samuel Felsted), as well as the African and African-descended musicians who engaged these repertoires. Drawing on an impressive range of sources (including memoirs, periodicals, iconography, and ceremonial programming), Weaver demonstrates how cultural activity was instrumental to the construction of white Jamaican identity—while critically addressing the ways that enslaved and free people of color, both willingly and unwillingly, took part in this process.