Faculty of Music
Graduate Awards
Discipline |
Prize |
Contact |
Value/Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cello | JS Bach Prize Donor: Thorald Harper bequest. Eligibility: Cello students in the Faculty of Music. Selection Criteria: Best performance of the first and any other movement of a solo sonata or suite by JS Bach. Competition is judged by a visiting performer. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: forms available from the Faculty Office in June for competition in September |
$400 Biennially in September |
| Chamber Music | Faculty Chamber Music Prize Donor: Information not provided. Eligibility: Chamber ensembles of up to 8 players of Faculty students Selection Criteria: Awarded to the chamber ensemble which gives the best performance of two movements of a work from the chamber music repertory. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: forms available June from the Faculty of Music Office for competition in October |
$800 Annual award |
| Chamber Music | Faculty Chamber Music Prize for a Contemporary Australian Work Donor: Associate Professor B Broadstock. Eligibility: Chamber ensembles of up to 8 players of Faculty students. Selection Criteria:Awarded to the chamber ensemble which gives the best performance of a contemporary Australian work from the chamber music repertory. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: forms available June from the Faculty of Music Office for competition in October |
$100 Annual award |
| Composition | The Dorian le Gallienne Composition Award R6.72(122) |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$500 in 2003 (Determined by Council) Biennially in June |
| Composition | Albert H. Maggs Composition Award R 7.127 Selection Criteria: Awarded to a composer resident in Australia for not less than two years, to write a work commissioned by the University. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: advertised 30 June in Weekend Australian and Age |
$4000 in 2002 and performance subsidy $1,500 Annual award |
| Music | The Ronald William Caporn Prize R6.72(203) Donor: Ms Claire Rosalie Henrietta Taylor Selection Criteria: The prize is to be awarded to a student enrolled for a degree in the Faculty for an outstanding performance in playing an instrument selected by the Dean |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
(NAI) Annual award |
| Music | Dublin Prize R6.72(3) Selection Criteria: For students and graduates making outstanding contributions in Art, Music, Literature and Science. NOTE: Past recipients have included concert pianist Ronald Farren-Price, historian Geoffrey Blainey and poet Vincent Buckley. |
Contact: Ian Powell (Academic Secretary) Ph: 8344- 7527 |
$4,000 in 2002 (NAI) Quinquennially award (Next 2007) |
| Music | Harold Clark English and Elizabeth English Scholarship Donor: Mrs Elizabeth English. Eligibility: Students enrolled in a Music subject in the Faculty of Music. Selection Criteria: Best essay on a musical subject determined by the Dean of the Faculty, or his or her nominee. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$200 in 2002 Annual award |
| Music | Dr A.E. Floyd Memorial Scholarship R6.174 |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: close 31 March; advertised Age Saturday Extra |
$2,000 in 2002 (Determined by Council) Awarded from time to time |
| Music | Sir William McKie Travelling Scholarship R6.72(106) |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$2,000 in 2002 (NAI) Biennially award |
| Music | Nickson Travelling Scholarship R6.140 Selection Criteria: Music or Arts graduates under 30 years of age from any Victorian University to study abroad. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$2,000 in 2002 (NAI) Biennially award |
| Music | Ormond Exhibition R6.10 Selection Criteria:Best postgraduate student not in receipt of other awards, to be used for research and postgraduate study. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$3695 in 2002 Annual award |
| Music | Ivy May Pendelbury Bursaries Donor: Administered by ANZ Trustees. Eligibility: Anglican students in need. Selection Criteria: Information not supplied. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
Variable Annual award |
| Music | Welsford Smithers Memorial Travelling Scholarship R6.153 Selection Criteria: Awarded to a Bachelor of Music graduate to continue studies overseas. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$20,000 in 2002 (Determined by Council) Awarded from time to time |
| Musicology | Percy Jones Award R6.72(145) Selection Criteria: Postgraduate student of the Faculty of Music pursuing studies in musicology. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$600 in 2002 (NAI) Biennially award |
| Orchestral Instrument | Concerto Competition Donor: Thorald Harper Bequest. Eligibility: Students in the Faculty of Music. Selection Criteria: Best performance in an orchestral instrument of the first movement of any Mozart concerto, judged by a visiting performer. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: forms available from the Faculty of Music Office the November prior to competition year |
$500 Biennial award |
| Performance | Matthew Lennard Fund R6.72(102) |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
(Determined by Council) Awarded from time to time |
| Piano | Concerto Competition Donor: Thorald Harper Bequest. Eligibility: Students in the Faculty of Music. Selection Criteria: Best piano performance of the first movement of any Mozart concerto, judged by a visiting performer. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: forms available from the Faculty of Music Office the November prior to competition year |
$500 Biennial award |
| Piano | Grace Funston Scholarship R6.72(92) Selection Criteria : Awarded to a Bachelor of Music graduate or undergraduate, 25 years of age or less, based on skill as a pianist, academic attainment, and financial need. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$5950 in 2002 (NAI) Annual award |
| Piano | FW Homewood Memorial Scholarship R6.56 Selection Criteria: Awarded, after an examination of applicants, by the Council to a graduate in piano of not more than 5 years’ standing pursuing piano studies. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: close 1 January |
$8,000 Annual award |
| Piano | Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Scholarship Donor: Information not supplied. Eligibility: Australian pianists. Selection Criteria: Awarded to the Australian pianist who gives the outstanding performance at a competition held alternately in Melbourne and Sydney (Melbourne 2001) and judged by a panel of pianists. Administered alternatively by the Faculty of Music and the Sydney Conservatorium. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$1,200 in 2002 (NAI) Annual award |
| Travelling Scholarship | French History Research Higher Degree Scholarship Donor: Helen Margaret Davies Eligibility: Research Higher Degree candidates (PhD.). with confirmed candidature, in the Faculty of Arts and the Facutly of Music. |
Contact: John Paul Collins Marketing and Development Officer Faculty of Arts Ph: 8344-5256 |
$1500 in 2007
Per annum Annual award |
| Viola | JS Bach Prize R7.147 Donor: Thorald Harper Bequest. Eligibility: Viola students. Selection Criteria: Best performance of the first and any other movement of a solo sonata or suite by JS Bach. Competition is judged by a visiting performer. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: forms available from the Faculty Office in June for competition in September |
$400 Biennially in September |
| Violin | JS Bach Prize R7.147 Donor: Thorald Harper Bequest. Eligibility: Violin students. Selection Criteria: Best performance of the first and any other movement of a solo sonata or suite by JS Bach. Competition is judged by a visiting performer. |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 Applications: forms available from the Faculty Office in June for competition in September. |
$400 Biennially in September |
| Violin | Dorcas McClean Scholarship R6.171 |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
$30,000 in 2003 (Determined by the Council ) One or more biennial awards |
| Vocal Studies | Mabel Kent Scholarship Donor: The Mabel Kent Estate. Eligibility: Students, preferably singers. Selection Criteria: Financial need |
Contact: Enquiries Ph: 8344-5256 |
Variable Annual award |