Abraham Beekman Cox Prize

The Department of Music awards The Abraham Beekman Cox Prize to the most promising and gifted composer(s) in the junior class. It is expected that the prize money, or a portion thereof, shall be used to defray the expenses of performing a composition or compositions by the recipient(s) on an occasion during his/her senior year. Recent winners include:

2024

Noah Stein and Natalie Brown

2023

Cameron Adams, Nathan Moran, and Jonathan Weiss

2022

Ben Kramer, Ben Beckman, and Sasha Semina

2021

Caroline Ho and James Brandfonbrener

2020

Michael Gancz and Parker Redcross

2019

Scott Feiner and Daniel Rudin

2018

Emil Ernstrom and Charles Romano

2017

Max Vinetz and Jack Lawrence

2016

Trey Pernell and Jacob Taswell

2015

Dominic Coles and Phil Jameson

2014

Daniel Rigberg

2013

Baldwin Giang and George Alexander Vourtsanis

2012

Anderson Freeman Alden and Nathan Charles Prillaman

2011

Emily Cooley

2010

Stephen Feigenbaum

2009

Lauren Loiacono and Daniel Schlosberg

2008

Rex Isenberg and Abraham Wayman

2007

Anna Lindemann and Austin Woerner

2006

Timothy Andres and Andrew McManus

2005

Eric Nathan and Jordan Nelson

2004

Alexander Temple

2003

Elaine Fefferman and Elizabeth Kelly

2002

Mark Dancigers, Robert Honstein, and Yiheng Wu

2001

Evan Johnson

2000

Matthew Croasmun

1999

Joshua Penman

1998

Michael Early and Jason Freeman