AMIS announces that Friedemann Hellwig is the winner of the Curt Sachs Award for 2025.

The 2025 Bessaraboff Prize is awarded to James Westbrook for Guitar Making in Nineteenth-Century London: Louis Panormo and his Contemporaries (Halesowen: ASG Music Limited, 2023).

The 2025 Frances Densmore Prize is awarded to Jayson Dobney for his article “Side Drums, Race, and Power in North America,” published in the 2023 volume of the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society.

Tsz-ching Tung (University of Hong Kong) has received the 2025 Fredrick R. Selch Award for her paper "In Reconstructing the 'Left-Hammered' Technique: A Historical Analysis of Early Cantonese Dulcimer Performance Practice," read at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA, June 7, 2025.