George Proctor Prize: Nolan Sprangers, “Stravinsky’s Media Ecology,” presented at the 2026 conference at the University of Manitoba.

Student Composer Prize: Marko Marinic, Under Wing.

George Proctor Prize: Simone Willmann, “Positioning Honesty, Positioning Scholars: Praxis of Acknowledging to Create Care-Centered Academic Practices,” presented at the 2025 conference at the University of Waterloo.

Student Composer Prize: Anika-France Forget, Songs for Dark Winter: Two Songs for Cello and Piano.

George Proctor Prize: Anneli Loepp Thiessen, “‘She shouldn’t be talking so much’: Women’s Musical Authority and the History of the Christian Music Industry,” presented at the 2024 conference at Brandon University.

Student Composer Prize: Liam Gibson, Snowmelt.

George Proctor Prize: Catherine Harrison-Boisvert, “Chanson et droit de vote des femmes aux États-Unis, 1910-1920 : envisager le genre musical comme véhicule de rhétorique politique,” presented at the 2023 conference at Université Laval.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Graeme Dick, “Hyperstition and Autopoiesis in the Aesthetics of Toronto’s Early New Music Concerts.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Sophie Stévance.

George Proctor Prize: Kamille Gagné, “Les Scènes alsaciennes de Jules Massenet: Un vecteur du discours revanchard dans la presse française,” presented at the 2022 conference at Acadia University.

Student Composer Prize: Frederick Lau, Gossamer.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Allyson Rogers, “The ‘NFB Sound’: Political Dimensions of the National Film Board of Canada’s Postwar Film Music,” and Vanessa Romao, “Hearing the Birdcall: Conceptions of the Animal, the Human, and Vocality in 18th-Century Nova Scotia.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Aurélie Thériault Brillon, “Analyse de la déterritorialisation d’une violoniste vers la musique traditionnelle québécoise instrumentale : esthétique, techniques de jeu et paramètres.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Jean Boivin.

George Proctor Prize: Luis Ramirez, “The Online Composer-Audience Collaboration,” presented at the 2021 conference.

Student Composer Prize: Chatori Shimizu, Wagyu Pigs.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): M. Gillian Carrabré, “The Gloving Lexicon: Exploring the Technical and Expression Gestures of Rave Performers.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Gabriel Dharmoo, “Reflets de la colonialité dans la scène des musiques nouvelles.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Rea Beaumont.

Student Composer Prize: Hannah Kim, Pointillistic Momentum.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Kristi Hardman, “Form as Timbre: Tracking the Form of Tanya Tagaq’s ‘Ilunikavi’ through Timbral Changes.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Héloïse Rouleau, “Développement Numérique de la Communauté Rap Québécoise: Articulation d’un réseau alternatif en réponse à sa marginalisation de l’industrie musicale.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Robin Elliott.

George Proctor Prize: Marie-Pier Leduc, “Musique apolitique? La critique musicale d’Émile Vuillermoz, de la première à la seconde guerre mondiale,” presented at the 2019 conference at the University of British Columbia.

Student Composer Prize: Ramsey Sadaka, …like evening rain clouds….

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Carolyne Sumner, “Musical Networks and Cultural Expression in Canada: The Postcentennial Years.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Sarah-Anne Arsenault, “Co-création d’une chanson populaire avec des adolescents québécois: analyse constructiviste du processus dans une approche de recherche-création.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Mary Ingraham.

George Proctor Prize: Kyle Hutchinson, “Tristan, Liszt, and Till Eugenspiegel: Chromatically-Altered Diminished Seventh Chords in Late Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Syntax,” presented at the 2018 conference at MacEwan University.

Student Composer Prize: Austin Leung, Little Childish Fantasy.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Adam Roy, “Canadian Mosaic: Pitch Structures and Resources in Barbara Pentland’s Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (1983).”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Martin Desjardins, “Le geste sonore comme objet d’analyse pour observer les pratiques musicales distinctives d’improvisateurs jazz.”

George Proctor Prize: Joseph Chi-Sing Siu, “Reexamining the Loosely-Knit Subordinate Theme in the Classical Style: A Phrase Rhythmic Approach,” presented at the 2018 conference at the University of Toronto.

Student Composer Prize: Gabriel Dharmoo, The Fog in our Poise.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Virginia Georgallas, “‘The Sublimest Music on Earth’ An Aural History of Niagara Falls in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Laura Trottier, “Le cross-over en musique classique au Québec: stratégie marketing ou démocratisation culturelle?.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Regula Burckhardt Qureshi.

George Proctor Prize: Annalise Smith, “Directorial Influence at the Paris Opéra: The Case of Devismes du Valgay,” presented at the 2016 conference at the University of Calgary.

Student Composer Prize: Naithan Bosse, Feedforward.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Jamie Meyers-Riczu, “Nature and the Construction of National Identity in Jean Coulthard’s The Pines of Emily Carr.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Paul Bazin, “Serge Garant et le genre mélodique: stylistique d’une première maturité.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Gordon E. Smith.

George Proctor Prize: Margaret Elizabeth Fox, “Perceptual Synthesis in Anton Webern’s Op. 28, Sehr Fließend.”

Student Composer Prize: Roydon Tse, Memories.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Muriel Smith, “Singing in ‘the Peg’: Anglo-Canadian and Mennonite choral exchanges in Winnipeg, Manitoba (1920 – 1960).”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Not awarded.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Marie-Thérèse Lefebvre.

George Proctor Prize: Maria Virginia Acuña, “Expectation and Experimentation in the Zarzuela Apolo y Dafne (c. 1699),” presented at the 2014 conference at Brock University.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, “Don’t Pocohontas Me: Modernity and Transnational Politics in Tanya Tagaq’s Throat Games with Concert Stage String Ensembles.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Erin Sheedy, “Chanter la « mosaïque musicale » : Florence Glenn et les festivals du Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: John Beckwith.

George Proctor Prize: Martin Guerpin, “Exotisme nègre ou musique de danse syncopée? Le jazz dans la musique savant française d’après-guerre,” presented at the 2013 conference at the University of Victoria.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Lucille Mok, “Performance as Narrative in Two Norman McLaren Animated Shorts.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Not awarded.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Elaine Keillor.

George Proctor Prize: Zoey Mariniello Cochran, “Resisting Foreign Domination through Laughter: The Nationalistic Implications of Multilingualism and Musical Characterization in Pergolesi’s Lo Frate ‘nnamorato,” presented at the 2012 conference at Wilfrid Laurier University.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Deanna Yerichuk, “Music’s Social(ization) Goals: The Emergence of Community Music Education in Toronto’s Settlement Houses, 1915-1946.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Not awarded.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music: Beverley Diamond.

George Proctor Prize: Jeremy Strachan, “Udo Kasemets, Canavangard, and the 1960s,” presented at the 2011 conference at Mount Allison University.

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (English): Daniel Laxer, “Instruments of Exchange: Music in the Fur Trade and the Arrival of European Instruments into the Canadian West 1760-1821.”

SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award for Writings on Canadian Music (French): Not awarded.

George Proctor Prize: Kimberly White, “Creating the Ideal Debutante: Cornélie Falcon’s 1832 Debut at the Paris Opéra” and Colleen Renihan, “‘Voices from History’: Postmodern Canadian Historicism in Istvan Anhalt’s Winthrop,” presented at the 2010 conference at the University of Regina.

George Proctor Prize: Jon-Tomas Godin, “L’emploi des marqueurs formels dans les sonates de Schubert” and Robert Rival, “The Comfort of Denial: Metre, Cyclic Form, and Narrative in Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet,” presented at the 2009 conference at Carleton University.