The Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce that Meghan Forsyth of Toronto has been awarded $12,000 as the recipient of the Foundation’s 2008 advanced music study award. The 2008 award was offered in the area of research in Canadian music and was open to candidates from across Canada under thirty years of age.
Ms. Forsyth is presently a second-year doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto. She holds a master's degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Cambridge, and an undergraduate degree in music from the University of Lethbridge. Her current doctoral thesis research focuses on traditional Acadian violin music in Prince Edward Island. She has published her master's research on the traditional violin music of the Shetland Isles in Shima, the "International Journal of Research into Island Cultures" and has given presentations on this research at conferences in Canada, the USA, and England.
