Music Research Society honors Dóra Kiss
The Swiss Music Research Society (SMG) is awarding the Handschin Prize for Music Research for the third time. This year's award, which comes with prize money of 10,000 Swiss francs, goes to music and dance researcher Dóra Kiss.
Dóra Kiss completed her doctorate at the University of Geneva with the thesis "La saisie du mouvement, De l'écriture et de la lecture des sources de la belle danse". She was originally a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher.
She has been involved in various productions throughout Europe and has taught at various universities such as the Bern University of the Arts (HKB). She is currently working on a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) on the relationship between dance and music.
A total of eight recent doctoral graduates from Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Zurich and New York applied. According to the SMG, it was not easy for the selection committee, consisting of members of the SMG Board, to choose from the submitted dissertations, all of which were of high quality.
The prize is named after the Moscow-born Swiss musicologist and organist Jacques Handschin (1886-1955). It is awarded every two years to young academics. The award ceremony for Dóra Kiss will take place on November 7 at the University of Fribourg.
