Two Recent Researches in Music editions have received prestigious awards!
John L. Snyder was awarded the 2024 Diana McVeigh Prize for Best Edition of British Music (published between 2020 and 2023) for his edition of Ethel Smyth’s Serenade in D Major for Orchestra (N084) by the North American British Music Studies Association. The award committee found every aspect of the edition “to be expertly done, the scholarly apparatus excellent, the research extensive, the commentary exhaustive, and the score clear and easy to read.” They proclaimed it an “outstanding edition” that makes a “distinctive contribution to British music studies.”
Mark Ferraguto received the 2024 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society for his project of editing, performing, and recording of Franz Weiss’s opus 8 string quartets. The Greenberg Award is a grant-in-aid designed to stimulate active cooperation between scholars and performers by recognizing and fostering outstanding contributions to historical performing practices. The recording by the Eybler Quartet was released in November 2024. Ferraguto’s edition is published as volume N090 and is part of the String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe collection.
