John Cage Award For outstanding work in experimental composition. Jay Vilnai Conservatory Choral Award For excellence in the choral programs. David Craig Conservatory of Music Opera—Theater Award Erik Bagger Elinor Sohn Conservatory of Music Orchestra Award Stanislav Nikolov Conservatory of Music Cerf Award in Music Education Dawn Taitt Conservatory of Music Performance Awards For outstanding work in the performance area. Elanor Crawford Gabrielle de Sena Stephen Hands Ronnie Nissinboim Larry Robinson Miriam Gideon Award Marie Incontrera Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music (HISAM) Award Moshe Axelrod Morton Feldman Composition Award Whitney Ashe Noah Creshevsky Special Award in Music John Chittum De Los Mederos Special Award in Music Performance Lindsey Eckenroth Lehman Engel Award (new) To the composition student who, in the past year, composed a particularly outstanding dramatic musical composition that was performed at Brooklyn College. Matthew Frey Robert Starer Performance Award To a performer(s) of a living composer’s work in public concert. Yotam Ginzberg Fabienne Seveillac Sherman Van Solkema Music History Writing Prize For the best undergarduate music-history paper from the previous academic year, from submissions nominated by the music-history faculty. Nora Friedman — for her term paper “Rare Authority: The Secondary Narratives of Hildegard of Bingen” (Music 24.1, spring 2008; instructor: Tina Fruehauf) Congratulations to all of the award winners this year!