About the ISME World Conference Presenter Award

Purpose of the Award

To enable music educators with demonstrated financial need to attend the ISME biennial World Conference by meeting registration costs and contributing towards travel, accommodation, and sustenance.

Eligibility

ISME members who have been accepted to give a spoken or poster presentation for the first time.
Not available to performing groups.
Past recipients are not eligible.

Criteria

Quality and significance of proposed research.
Applicant’s financial need.
Importance of conference attendance.

Award Value

Up to US $1500 for travel, accommodation, and sustenance.

General Guidelines for all World Conference Awards

All awards are available to ISME members only.

Award normally distributed post-conference attendance, unless otherwise approved by the ISME Finance Committee.

Eligible costs: travel, accommodation, sustenance. Membership and registration are not covered by these awards.

Application Requirements

One-page CV and a Personal statement of 300–400 words saved as a single pdf file.
Referee report (400 words).

Application Process

Please login Here with your ISME credentials to apply for this award.

Past Recipients of this Award

2024, Helsinki

Ashley Wright

Marshall Islands

Benson Charles Odongo Okong’o

Kenya

Jiang Ziyi

China

Lucy Magaly Bellota-Villafuerte

Peru

Muxi Tang

China

Rajashree Srinivasan

India

Shuai Li

China

Timóteo Francisco Lidia Cuche

Mozambique

Yang Shengqin

China

2022, Brisbane (online)

As the 2022 world conference was online only, travel and accommodation expenses support was not relevant, so a different awards program was offered.

2020, Helsinki (cancelled)

No conference was held in 2020 so no awards were made.

2018, Baku

Gillian Howell

Australia

Iman Shah

Nepal

Riju Tuladhar

Nepal

Kushal Karki

Nepal

John Shrestha

Nepal

Kyna Elliott

USA

László Stachó

Hungary

Avril McLoughlin

Ireland

Angie Mullins

South Africa

Celeste M. Romulo

Philippines

Katharina Loibner

Austria

Lisa Burrell

USA

2016, Glasgow

Alla Toropova

Russia

Anibal Martel Andrade

Peru

Arthur Gill

Pakistan

Erkan Sulun

Turkey

Gertrude Bien Aime

Haiti

Milca Maria Cavalanti de Paula

Brazil

Nicole Canham

Australia

Yen-Ting Wu

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