The Department of Music awards The Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize to stimulate and recognize scholarship and creative imagination in the field of music. It is awarded to that senior in any undergraduate department at Yale who has done distinguished work in an intensive major and who submits the best senior essay on a musical subject, or a musical composition exhibiting unusual originality and promise. Recent winners include:
2024
Jonathan Weiss and Nathan Moran
2023
Ben Beckman
2022
Dani Zanuttini-Frank and Michael Gancz
2021
Sammy Grob and Jake Gluckman
2020
Sofia Campoamor
2019
Jared Michaud and Emil Ernstrom
2018
Max Vinetz, composition and Miles Walter, composition
2017
Emma Hathaway, music history
2016
Dominic Coles, composition
2015
Benji Goldsmith, composition, and Nate Barnett, composition
2014
Baldwin Giang, composition, and Maxwell Ramage, composition
2013
Nicholas William Bleisch and Julian de Freitas
2012
Emily Christine Cooley, composition, and Oliver David Hill, music theory
2011
Ellis Ludwig-Leone, composition
2010
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, music history
2009
Paul Sherril, music theory
2008
David DeAngelis, music history
2007
Andrew McManus, composition
2006
Eric Nathan, composition
2005
Alexander Temple, composition
2004
Jonathan Boschetto, music history
2003
Mark Seto, music history
2002
Evan Johnson, composition
2001
Matthew Croasmun, composition
2000
Paul Berry, music history
1999
Jason Freeman, composition