Faculty of VCA and Music
Graduate Awards
Discipline |
Prize |
Contact |
Value/Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Composition | Adolph Spivakovsky Scholarship for the Composition of Music UTR6.252 Eligibility: open to students who have satisfactorily completed first year of a bachelor of Music degree anywhere in Australia; and are enrolled anywhere in Australia, as a Principal Study Composition student, in a bachelor or higher degree in music performance Note: External submissions accepted |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$5,000) Annual award |
| Music | Alan C Rose Memorial Scholarship UTR7.245 Selection Criteria: Provided for the best quality project submissions from students in the discipline of Music |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$13,000) Annual awards |
| Music/Contemporary Music | Will Poskitt Piano Scholarship UTR6.72 Selection Criteria: Awarded to students undertaking piano as their principal instrument of study in the improvisation and/or classical stream, in memory of William Andrew Poskitt. Each recipient will be selected based on his or her demonstrated excellence as a performer, and personal contribution to the general musical activities of the faculty of the VCA and Music. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$1,500) Annual awards |
| Wilin | Wilin/Dara Access Scholarships Eligibility: Indigenous students Selection: Applicants will be assessed on financial need, and on career aspirations in relation to indigenous community engagement. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
$15,000 |
| Wilin | Portland House Scholarships Eligibility: Indigenous students Selection: Provided to assist talented Indigenous Australian students to overcome barriers to university education by alleviating some of the costs associated with higher education study. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
~$15,000 |
| Wilin | Besen Family Foundation Scholarships Eligibility: Indigenous students Selection: VCA & Wilin staff |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
~$15,000 |
| All disciplines, but targeted to FTV | Margaret Lawrence Social Justice Award UTR6.248 Selection Criteria: To provide the awards for students at the faculty to enable them to pursue eligible projects in film or other art forms. Eligible projects are projects which are designed to raise awareness and debate in the broader community about a wide range of global and local issues which do, or could, have an adverse impact on the communities within which those issues are evident or emerging. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$4,500) Annual award |
| All music, including Music Theatre, Production, Theatre | Cassidy Bequest Donor: Administered by Perpetual Trustees Selection: By VCA and Music Staff |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$20,000) Annual awards |
| All disciplines | Jim Marks Postgraduate Scholarship UTR6.239 Eligibility: Any Australian citizen or permanent resident postgraduate student Selection criteria: Students must demonstrate financial need, and must provide a proposal for how funds would be used, with specific reference to the furtherance of their artistic practice |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$13,000) Annual awards |
| MELBOURNE CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC SCHOLARSHIPS | |||
| Composition | Albert H Maggs Composition Award UTR7.127 Eligibility: Australian composers who have been resident in Australia for no less than two years immediately preceding the closing date for submissions. Note: External submissions accepted |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$10,00) Annual award |
| Composition | The Dorian le Gallienne Composition Award UTR6.72(122) Eligibility: Composers who are resident in Victoria who merit recognition and encouragement Note: External submissions accepted |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$1,500) Biennially award (odd years) |
| Composition | Adolph Spivakovsky Scholarship for the Composition of Music UTR6.252 Eligibility: open to students who have satisfactorily completed first year of a bachelor of Music degree anywhere in Australia; and are enrolled anywhere in Australia, as a Principal Study Composition student, in a bachelor or higher degree in music performance Note: External submissions accepted |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$5,000) Annual award |
| Flute | Leslie Barklamb Flute Award UTR6.72(153) Selection Criteria: Awarded to the recipient of the best mark for flute performance in the AMEB Examinations Note: External submissions accepted |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$400) Annual award |
| Music | Harold Clark English and Elizabeth English Scholarship UTR6.72(190) Eligibility: Students enrolled in a Music subject in the Faculty of Music. Selection Criteria: Best essay on a musical subject as determined by the Dean of the Faculty or nominee. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
(NAI) (~$3,000) Annual award |
| Music | M and E Kefford Scholarship UTR6.119 Selection Criteria: Student in need who is the child of British subjects resident in Victoria. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
(NAI) (~$1,000) Annual award |
| Music | Ivy May Pendelbury Bursaries Donor: Administered by ANZ Trustees. Eligibility: Anglican students in need. Selection Criteria: Information not supplied. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
Variable Annual award |
| Music | Donovan-Johnston Memorial Scholarship Eligibility: Musicians under 30 years of age Selection Criteria: Awarded to a student wanting to travel who has shown potential to become a recognised and respectable musician/singer |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
~$15,000 Annual award |
| Music | Elizabeth Stainkamph Memorial Prize UTR6.72(77) Selection Criteria: Awarded to the candidate placed highest overall in both the 8th grade piano and 8th grade theory examinations conducted by the Australian Music Examinations Board. Note: External submissions accepted |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$8,000) Annual award |
| Music | EC Wellisch Bequest UTR6.267 Selection Criteria: Awarded to students who are in financial need in their studies |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$8,500) Annual award |
| Music | AE Floyd Memorial Scholarship UTR6.174 Eligibility: Australian citizens, either graduated from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, or other tertiary music institution in Australia, who are under the age of thirty at the date when applications for the scholarship close, who wish to undertake further studies overseas |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$6,000) Awarded from time to time |
| Music | Welsford Smithers Scholarship UTR6.153 Eligibility: Open to Melbourne Conservatorium of Music graduates who wish to continue their studies overseas |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$30,000) Awarded from time to time |
| Music | Sir Bernard Heinze Award UTR7.145 Note: External submissions accepted |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$7,000) Annual award |
| Music | Nickson Travelling Scholarship UTR6.140 Eligibility: Candidates for the scholarship must have qualified for a degree or diploma in music or for the degree of bachelor of Arts with a major in music; or have qualified for such a degree or diploma in another university in Victoria approved for this purpose by the faculty. The scholarship is awarded to enable the scholar to pursue musical studies overseas. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$15,000) Biennial award (even years-next in 2012) |
| Music | Barbara Bishop Hewitt Scholarship UTR6.278 Eligibility: Open to Melbourne Conservatorium of Music graduates who wish to continue their studies overseas |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$5,500) Annual award |
| Music | Joyce McKenna Donor: Alan Barker (Equity Trustees) Eligiblity: Awarded to the most talented student for each such year to travel overseas to further his or her musical education. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$15,000) Annual award |
| Music – either Piano, Violin, Viola or Violoncello | Katharine Kearns Scholarship Managed: Trusts Company Eligibility: Under 30 years of age, Australian citizen, or normally residing in Australia Selection Criteria: Provided to enable selected persons of not more than thirty years of age at the time of the granting of the scholarship and who shall be either Australian citizens or other persons normally resident in Australia to travel abroad to further their studies in instrumental music in either pianoforte violin viola or violoncello |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
$25,000 Biennial award (even years) |
| Music Orchestral Instrument |
Willem Van Otterloo Fund UTR6.72(233) Eligibility: Awarded to a final year graduate or postgraduate student of an orchestral instrument for travel to further their studies in music Selection Criteria: Preference given to students selecting to study in the Netherlands |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$3,000) Biennial award (even years) |
| Music | Ormond Exhibitions UTR6.10 Selection Criteria: (a) up to two exhibitions of not less than $250 each to the student or students with the best results in the Second Year of the course for the degree of bachelor of Music; (b) up to two exhibitions of not less than $250 each to the student or students with the best results in the Third Year of the course for the degree of bachelor of Music; and (c) one scholarship of not less than $3,750 to the candidate for an award for postgraduate study or research in the faculty who, in the opinion of the dean on the advice of the head of the school of Music, is the best candidate not in receipt of any other postgraduate award. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI |
| Musicology | Percy Jones Award UTR6.72(145) |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$1,500) Biennial award (even years) |
| Piano | Phyllis Judd / Therese de Kretser Scholarship UTR6.242 Eligibility: Awarded to an Australian citizen enrolled in piano studies Selection Criteria: Award based on academic merit and financial need |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$40,000) Annual awards |
| Piano | FW Homewood Scholarship UTR6.56 Eligibility: Applicants must have completed the course for the degree no more than five years previously Selection Criteria: The applicant must submit a plan of study of the piano under a teacher, to be approved by the selection committee. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$1,750) Annual award |
| Piano | Grace Funston Scholarship UTR6.72(92) Selection Criteria: Awarded to a Bachelor of Music graduate or undergraduate, 25 years or under, based on skill as a pianist, academic attainment and financial need. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$28,000) Annual award |
| Piano | John Hellyar Piano Scholarship UTR6.277 Eligibilty: Australian-born pianist, under the age of 30, who enrolls in a course of advanced musical study Selection criteria: The applicant must demonstrate the capacity to pursue a course of advanced musical study. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$30,000) Annual award |
| Piano Accompaniment |
Maude Harrington Prize UTR6.72(35) Selection criteria: award annually to a student who shows proficiency in the art of accompanying a singer on the pianoforte and who is taking a full course for a degree or diploma in Music in a course conducted by the faculty |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
Books prize Annual award |
| Piano/Organ | Sir William McKie Travelling Scholarship UTR6.72(106) Selection Criteria: For a graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music to travel to a school of music in London for further studies |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$2,500) Awarded from time to time |
| Stringed Instrument | Corinna D’Hage Mayer String Scholarship UTR6.294 Eligibility: Open to Australian born string students wishing to enroll for a course of advanced musical study Selection Criteria: Awarded to outstandingly talented students of stringed instruments demonstrating the capacity to pursue a course of advanced musical study |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$20,000) Annual award |
| Viola, Violin or Violoncello | Kate Flowers Memorial Scholarship UTR6.254 Selection Criteria: Awarded to a full-time student in string studies who has completed at least one full year of tertiary studies, who demonstrates a love of music and performing; a genuine talent or potential in relation to playing their instrument; and an ambition to make music their career. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$7,000) Annual award |
| VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS | |||
| All disciplines | VCA Scholarship Endowment Fund UTR6.240 Selection: Selected by VCA staff |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$24,000) Annual awards |
| All disciplines | Friends of the VCA awards Donors: Friends of the VCA Selection: Selected by VCA staff |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
TBC |
| Art | John and Mary Kerley Studio Research Scholarship for International Exchange UTR6.249 Selection criteria: The scholarship is to assist with the cost of the student undertaking international study pursuant to a student exchange scheme. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$9,500) Annual award |
| Art | Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship (Art) UTR6.238 Eligibility: Candidates for the award must (a) hold, or be eligible as a graduand to hold, a Bachelor of Fine Art, Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Graduate Certificate in Fine Art, Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Art, Master of Fine Art or Master of Visual Art arising out of studies completed in the discipline of Art at the faculty or the College; (b) have graduated, or be eligible to graduate, from the discipline of Art at the faculty or the College within the four years immediately preceding the date of submission of the application for the fellowship; (c) be an Australian citizen or have resided in Australia for the four years immediately preceding the date of submission of the application for the fellowship; and d) make an application in the form and manner prescribed by the University. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$25,000) Biennial award (odd years) |
| Dance | Dr Phillip Law Travel Scholarship (Dance) UTR6.261 Eligibility: Any student enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate studies in the discipline of Dance (‘Dance’) at the faculty to enable them to travel overseas to enhance their knowledge and competency in dance. Selection: The scholarship is to be awarded to the student who shows the best potential to gain wider experience in dance from travel as demonstrated by the travel/study plans outlined in their application. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
$3,000 |
| Drama/Theatre | Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship (Drama) UTR6.237 Eligibility: Candidates for the award must a) hold, or be eligible as a graduand to hold, a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting), Postgraduate Diploma or Masters degree arising out of studies completed in the discipline of Drama at the faculty or the College; b) have graduated, or be eligible to graduate, from the discipline of Drama at the faculty or the College within the 10 years immediately preceding the date of submission of the application for the fellowship; c) be an Australian citizen or have resided in Australia for the four years immediately preceding the date of submission of the application for the fellowship; and d) make an application in the form and manner prescribed by the University. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$25,000) Biennial award (odd years) |
| Drama/Theatre | George Fairfax Memorial Awards
UTR6.251 Eligibility: Any applicant for the award must – (1) have graduated, or be eligible to graduate, in any undergraduate or postgraduate course in Drama at the faculty or the College within 10 years prior to 1 January of the year of the award (and preferably have three years industry experience); and (2) be an Australian citizen or have resided in Australia for four years immediately preceding 1 January of the year of the award. Selection: The fund is to be applied to provide the award to a graduate in the discipline of Drama with exceptional talent in any of the theatre arts. The purpose of the award is to provide recipients with the opportunity to enhance their professional careers in the theatre industry at a critical time in their careers. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$20,000) Biennial award (odd years) |
| Drama/Theatre | Grace Marion Wilson Trust Donor: Administered by Bullards Selection: By Theatre Staff |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
$12,000 Annual award |
| Drama/Theatre | Barbara Manning Scholarship
UTR6.241 Eligibility: Graduate students who demonstrate financial need. Selection: Scholarship is provided to support an outstanding candidate for one year of a postgraduate course being offered from time to time within the discipline of Drama/Theatre at the faculty in the fields of Animateuring or Directing. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$9,000)
From time to time. |
| FTV | EH Shepard Award Eligibility: Graduate students enrolled in either the Graduate Diploma of Film and Television (Animation) and the Masters by Coursework (Animation). Selection criteria: Eligible students must supply a screenplay and storyboard of their second semester production, along with other requirements. The Donor will make the final selection of the recipient |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
$5,000 Annual award |
| FTV | Film Victoria Brian Robinson Memorial Script Award UTR6.72(237) Eligibility: Students enrolled in the graduate diploma in Film and Television Selection: By FTV staff |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$400) Annual award |
| FTV | Erwin Rado Memorial Award UTR6.72(236) Selection: By FTV staff |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$700) Annual award |
| Contemporary Music | Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship (Music) UTR6.236 Eligibility: Candidates for the award must – a. hold, or be eligible as a graduand to hold, a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Music Performance or Graduate Diploma in Opera arising out of study in the discipline of Music at the faculty or the College; b. have graduated, or be eligible to graduate, from the discipline of Music at the faculty or the College within the four years immediately preceding the date of submission of the application for the fellowship; c. be an Australian citizen or have resided in Australia for the four years immediately preceding the date of submission of the application for the fellowship; and d. make an application in the form and manner prescribed by the University. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$20,000) Biennial award (odd years) |
| Contemporary Music - improvisation | Dr Phillip Law Music Scholarship UTR6.253 Eligibility: Any Contemporary music student of improvisation, who exhibits the greatest excellence in innovative performance and commitment to their studies and activities offered by the faculty. Selection: Candidates for the scholarship are to submit an application outlining why they think they are innovative. Short-listed students are to attend a brief audition and interview. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
$3,000 |
| Production | Trina Parker Scholarship UTR6.256 Eligibility: Students undertaking a postgraduate diploma in Production (Design). The purpose of the scholarship is to assist with the payment of the fees of the awardee for the diploma. Applicants for the scholarship must be Australian citizens or permanent residents of Australia. |
Contact: Eva Stephenson Hargitay Ph: 9685 9044 |
NAI (~$5,000) Annual award |