John Romey has won the 2025 Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize for his article,“The pieces that are in the hands of everyone belong to the public’: Philippe-Emmanuel de Coulanges, Song Games and Operatic Artefacts in Seventeenth-Century Paris” published in Volume 36 Issue 3 of Cambridge Opera Journal. The Prize is awarded annually by the Sixteenth Century Society for the best article published in English on the history of France and its empire in the Early Modern Era (1450-1750). Read the article here.

Joshua Tolulope David has won an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship for his chapter, which is being published as a COJ article and will appear in Volume 37.1. Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowships provide funding for the final year of PhD dissertation work and are awarded on the basis of academic merit. The fellowship support dissertation and predissertation research in musicology and related fields, and is a crucial part of the Society’s ongoing investment in the future of musicology. Read the article "Representation, Performative Exchange and Afropolitanism: Rethinking Opera Production in Nigeria through The Magic Flute" here.

Jacek Blaszkiewicz has won an ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for his article published in Volume 34 Issue 2 of Cambridge Opera Journal. The awards are given annually to outstanding pieces of work, with Jacek Blaszkiewicz's piece winning the award for an article in the concert music field. Read the article "Verdi, Auber and the Aida-type" here.