University Secretary's Department List of Awards, Scholarships and Prizes

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
       

 

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