Isabel Frey receives the
Award of Excellence 2025

Isabel Frey, currently a senior artist and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, was awarded the Award of Excellence 2025 by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) for her dissertation "Vocal Yiddishkeit: Postvernacular Transmission and Performance of Yiddish Folksong." Frey wrote her outstanding dissertation in the field of Ethnomusicology as part of the structured doctoral program "Music Matters. Materialities, Knowings and Practices in Performing Arts" at the mdw. This state prize, which comes with a cash award of EUR 3,000, has been presented since 2008 to the 40 best dissertations of the previous academic year.
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