2026 Award Nominees

Nominees

AMS AWARD NOMINATIONS

Nominations for 2026 American Musicological Society awards will be posted here. Nominations are listed after being vetted for eligibility. This page is offered as a courtesy to potential nominators and to the community for information on publications being considered for AMS awards.

Abigail Fine	The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch	University of Chicago Press	Lewis Lockwood Award
Adam Behan	“Music History, the Practice Turn, and Maria Yudina’s Journey through the Soviet ‘Thaw’, 1959–63”	Journal of the Royal Musical Association	Alfred Einstein Award
Alan Green	Allen Sapp – Selected Works for Piano	A-R Editions	Claude V. Palisca Award
Alana Mailes; Maurice Whitehead	“A Stuart Musician’s Conversion to Catholicism: Richard Dering and the Venerable English College, Rome”	Music & Letters	Alfred Einstein Award
Alejandro L. Madrid	“Listening through the Colonial Noise: Things, Sound Objects, and Legacy at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv’s Konrad T. Preuss Collection”	Journal of the American Musicological Society	H. Colin Slim Award; Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award
Alejandro L. Madrid	The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening	Duke University Press	Otto Kinkeldey Award
Alexandra Kieffer	“Embodied Ritual, Efficacious Song: Marcel Mauss and the Limits of Anthropology”	Ethnomusicology	Alfred Einstein Award
Alexandra Wilson	“Universal in Scope and Appeal? The Politics of ‘National’ vs ‘International’ Opera at Post-war Covent Garden”	Transactions of the Royal Historical Society	H. Colin Slim Award
Alexandra Wilson	Someone Else’s Music: Opera and the British	Oxford University Press	H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award
Amy Bauer; Liam Cagney; William Mason	The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music	Oxford University Press	Ruth A. Solie Award