H. Colin Slim Award

The H. Colin Slim Award honors each year a musicological article of exceptional merit by a scholar who is beyond the early stages of their career. “Beyond the early stages” is here defined as more than twelve years beyond completion of the PhD degree.

The award is named for H. Colin Slim (1929–2019), who was one of the leading music scholars of his generation. A former President of the AMS, Colin Slim was an indefatigable researcher, an exemplary colleague, a dedicated teacher, and a talented pianist and conductor. He died on October 22, 2019, at the age of 90, in Berkeley, California. A noted scholar of Stravinsky and author of Stravinsky in the Americas: Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945), Slim also published important editions of operas by Rossini and Allessandro Scarlatti.

To be eligible for the H. Colin Slim Award, nominations must meet the following criteria. Eligible works:

• Must be authored by a member of the AMS or a citizen/permanent resident of Canada or the United States.
• Must have been authored by a scholar who is more than twelve years beyond completion of a PhD
• Must have been published during the preceding calendar year (referring to the copyright year as found in the front matter of the published work)
• Must be published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish

Nominations must be received via the AMS award nomination form by 11:59 p.m. ET on the submission deadline. Self-nominations are welcome, as well as nominations from colleagues and publishers. Nominators are asked to provide a digital review copy of the work, if available.

A committee of three scholars will choose a single award recipient from all eligible candidates. Award winners will receive a monetary prize, a certificate, and recognition at the annual meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Slim Award only once. An article may receive only one AMS award.