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Awards / Grants
The Frederick R. Selch Award
The Frederick R. Selch Award, named for an important collector of American musical instruments who was a founding member and second president of AMIS, was established in 2004 to honor the best student paper presented at an annual meeting of the Society. Papers will be judged by a committee appointed by the President, which may include members of the Board of Governors, the program committee, or additional persons: a prize is awarded at their discretion. The prize will consist of $250 and a certificate. The first prize was awarded at the 2005 Annual Meeting.
Previous Recipients
Receipient Name | Year | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
Wesley Somers | 2023 | "The Jarana as Baroque Guitar: A Neocolonial Claiming of Jarocho Instrument-Making Traditions." |
Francis Lapointe | 2022 | “George Hooper Mead: One of Canada’s First Instrument Makers, 1827–1851” |
Dominik Ukolov | 2022 | “Historical Instruments in Virtual Acoustic Environments: A Framework for the Generation of Interactive Acoustic Objects and Multimodal Organological Datasets” |
Julin Lee | 2021 | “Sounds of Futuristic Nostalgia: The Cultural Legacy of Blade Runner and the Yamaha CS-80.” |
Saskia Maxwell Keller | 2019 | “The Side-Saddle Seating Position and Its Relationship to the Popularization of the Cello Endpin during the Victorian Era” |
Jimena Palacis Uribe | 2018 | “The Brass Bands of Santiago Chazumba in Oaxaca, México: A Historical Reconstruction” |
Charles Pardoe | 2018 | “Reconstructing ‘the Kindian Lute’: An Invitation” |
Núria Bonet | 2017 | Plymouth University, “Mechanised Shawms: Comparing the Development of the Tenora, Suona and Jangsaenap” |
Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet | 2016 | University of Edinburgh, “Self-Destructive Elements in the Construction of Guitars in the 19th Century" |
Diane Oliva | 2015 | Harvard University, "Toward a History of Walking-Stick Violins" |
Emily Peppers | 2014 | University of Edinburgh, "An Untold Story: Private Instrument Collections and Music-Making in Sixteenth-Century France" |
Jayme Kurland | 2013 | Arizona State University, "A Narrow Escape from Nazi Europe: Mark Brunswick and His Work with the National Committee for Refugee Musicians, 1938-1943" |
Olga Sutkowska | 2012 | Universität der Kunste Berlin, “The Art of Tibiae: A Music-Archaeological Case Study of an Instrument from Late Antiquity" |
Melanie Piddocke | 2011 | "Which Lempp? Identifying Instruments by Friedrich and Martin Lempp of Vienna" |
Karen Loomis | 2011 | "What Happened to This Broken Harp? An Early Gaelic Harp with a Story to Tell" |
Lisa Norman | 2010 | "Early natural horns in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Instruments and other collections: An organological investigation" |
Hannes Vereecke | 2009 | “The Geometrical Documentation of Historical Musical Instruments” |
Eugenia Mitroulia | 2008 | “The Saxotromba: Fact or Fiction” |
Edmond Johnson | 2007 | “Who’s Playing the Player Piano—and Can the Talking Machine Sing?: Shifting Perceptions of Musical Agency in Mechanical Instruments, 1890-1910” |
Mauricio Molina | 2006 | "In quattuor lignis; Reconstructing the History, Timbre and Performance Practice of Medieval Iberian Square Frame Drum" |
Sunni Fass | 2005 | "Cultural Resonance: Musical Instruments as Material Culture" |
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