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