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Graduate students whose papers are accepted for presentation may request to be considered for the NYSSL Chapter's annual Student Paper Prize. The student will be expected to be present for the majority of the meeting. The Student Paper Prize is juried by three members of the NYSSL Chapter, and, since 2019, receives an award in the amount of $200. 

Previous Winners: 

2024 Annual Meeting (SUNY Potsdam, NY)
Carlos Marcelo Ascencio Gómez (McGill University), "Latincouver: Defining 'Latin' Identities in Vancouver through its Music Festival, Carnaval del Sol."
 
2023 Annual Meeting (Université de Montreal, Quebec)
Ihlara McIndoe (McGill University), "Stories and Sounds: Exploring the Aisteach
Fictional Archive and the Process of Becoming in Ireland and Aotearoa.”

2022 Annual Meeting (Eastman School of Music, NY)
Sadie Menicanin (University of Toronto), "Franz Schreker’s Der Geburtstag der Infantin at the Garden Theatre of Vienna’s Kunstschau 1908."

2021 Annual Meeting (Colgate University, NY)
Emmalouise St. Amand (Eastman School of Music), "Listening in Lycra: Jazzercise Records and the Race of the Slender Body."

2019 Annual Meeting (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)
Amanda Hsieh (University of Toronto), “'Degenerate' Opera?: Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten.”   

2018 Annual Meeting (SUNY, Fredonia)
David H. Miller (Cornell University), “The First International Webern Festival; or, It happened at the World’s Fair.” 
John Green (Eastman School of Music), “Sound and Meaning on Radio in John Cage’s The City Wears a Slouch Hat (1942).” 
2017 Annual Meeting (University of Toronto)
Patrick Nickelson (University of Toronto), “Inside the Theatre of Eternal Music: Collective Composition, Archives, and the Historiography of Drones.”
2016 Annual Meeting (SUNY, Potsdam)
Annalise Smith (Cornell University),"Influence at the Paris Opéra: The Case of Devismes du Valgay." 

2015 Annual Meeting (York University)
Alessia Macaluso (York University), "The Exile of Innocence: Fascist Disenchantment and the Music of Goffredo Petrassi."
Roseen Giles (University of Toronto), "Jesuit Spirituality and the Fate of Carissimi's Oratorios."

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