Music Undergraduate Scholarships & Awards
- Harold Fisher Opera Scholarship B'nai B'rith Victoria - next offered 2010
- Agnes Robertson Foundation Scholarship - next offered 2010
- Agnes Robertson Scholarship - next offered 2011
- Alan C. Rose Memorial Fund Project Grant - next offered 2010
- Athenaeum Prize - next offered 2010
- Brunner Prize for Violin/ Viola - next offered 2010
- Daisy Webster-Esther Nolan Singing Scholarship- Next offered 2011
- Dr Phillip Law Award - next offered 2010
- Francis Quinn Arts Encouragement Award- next offered 2010
- Friends of the VCA Award (Music)- next offered 2010
- Gwen Nisbet Encouragement Award - next offered 2010
- Gwen Nisbet Music Scholarship - next offered 2010
- John Gaitskell Memorial Mensa Award - Next offered in 2010
- Kate Flowers Memorial Scholarship - next offered 2010
- Lionel Gell Foundation Travelling Scholarship (Music)- next offered 2010
- Marion Isobel Thomas Estate Awards - next offered 2010
- Murray Ormond Vagg Scholarship - next offered 2010
- Music Lovers' Society Award - next offered 2010
- Music Student Provident Fund
- Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship (Music)
- Peers Coetmore Scholarship for Cellists - next offered 2010
- Ron and Margaret Dobell Foundation Music Theatre Award
- Sleath Lowrey Scholarship
- Spivakovsky Award - next offered 2010
- Victoria Welsh Male Voice Choir Ross Hartnell Memorial Scholarship - next offered 2010
- Willem van Otterloo Memorial Fund Award - next offered 2010
Amount: $1,000
Eligibility: Honours or graduate student majoring in classical voice
Criteria: The singer's potential for a career in opera and financial need
Selection: Winner selected by academic staff
Application Procedure: Download application form
Date/frequency: November 2009
The Scholarships listed above are administered by the School of Music for currently enrolled students only.
Through the generous donations and trusts established by our benefactors, the School of Music offers a range of scholarships and awards to students enrolled in our courses. Students may be required to audition for certain scholarships and awards and successful applicants may be asked to present a short recital at the presentation of the award.
If you have any questions about any of the scholarships or awards, please contact Rebecca Bywater, Executive Officer, via email: rbywater @ unimelb.edu.au, or telephone: 03 9685 9411.
Amount: $8,180 (fee remission)
Eligibility: Talent and financial need
Criteria: See Terms and Conditions via link below
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Application form and Financial Statement via links below
Date/Frequency: June 2009
Next award to be made in 2010
Amount: Variable - $4,500 in 2009
Eligibility: Keyboard students
Criteria: See Terms & Conditions via links below
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Application form and Financial Statement via links below
Date/Frequency: offered every three years
Next Award to be made in 2011
Amount: approximately$15,000
Eligibility: Honours and Postgraduate Students
Criteria: Contribution of the project to the applicant's professional development Performance and research aspects of the project
Expected aims and outcomes of the project
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Application form available via link below
Date/Frequency: This award is offered annually
Next award to be made in 2010
Amount: Prizes total $8,000
Eligibility: Undergraduate students
Criteria: Students will be selected for prizes at a competition
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Application form available from the School of Music Office
Date/Frequency: This award is offered annually
Award Date: May 2009
Amount: $1250
Eligibility: 2nd year students of repertoire violin or viola
Criteria: For the individual student who demonstrates greatest natural ability in performing on the violin or viola
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/Frequency: This award is offered annually
Amount: $18,000 over three years
Eligibility: Undergraduate vocal repertoire student auditioning for the undergraduate program and resident outside a radius of 50km from Melbourne GPO.
Criteria: Demonstrated financial need and potential to successfully complete the course as assessed by the audition panel
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application: This award is not open to student application
Procedure: Winner will be chosen by the selection panel at the time of audition
Date/Frequency: This award is offered every three years
Next award to be made in 2011
Award Date: February 2011
Amount: $4,200 approximately
Eligibility: Any student of improvisation enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate study
Criteria: Excellence in innovation performance, commitment to studies and School activities
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Applications available via the link below
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Next award to be made in 2009
Award date: October 2009
Amount: $1,000
Eligibility: First year female undergraduate student in improvisation or repertoire stream
Criteria: Selection based on the commitment and potential of student
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/frequency: This award is offered each year
Amount: $1000
Eligibility: Second year undergraduate student in improvisation or repertoire stream
Criteria: Selection based on the commitment and potential of student
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Next award to be made in 2009
Award Date: November 2009
Amount: $1500 approximately
Eligibility: First year undergraduate student in improvisation or repertoire stream
Criteria: Level of attainment in Principal Study and other practical and academic subjects. Commitment and personal contribution to musical activities in the College or community as demonstrated by concert programs and evidence of Principal Study Staff
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Amount: $5000 approximately
Eligibility: Third year undergraduate student in improvisation or repertoire stream
Criteria: Level of attainment in Principal Study and other practical and academic subjects. Commitment and personal contribution to musical activities in the College or community as demonstrated by concert programs and evidence of Principal Study staff
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Amount: $1000 (subject to change)
Eligibility: Third year undergraduate student in improvisation and repertoire stream
Criteria: Demonstrated excellence as a performer, taking in consideration -
Principal Study results, results of practical subjects, results of performance related studies subjects.
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Next award to be made in 2010
Award Date: March 2010
Amount: $5000
Eligibility: Undergraduate or postgraduate student violin, viola or cello
Criteria: Level of attainment in Principal Study and other practical and academic subjects
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Application forms available from the School of Music Office
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Next award made in 2010
Amount: 2 Awards of $10,000
Eligibility:
- Artistic merit demonstrated by a CD recording (up to three contrasting works of no more than 15 minutes duration)
- Merit of the planned travel proposal
- Likely success in completing a proposed course of study.
Criteria: See Terms and Conditions via link below
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff Application Procedure: Application form via link below
Date/Frequency: November 2009
Award date: December 2009
Amount: variable amounts
Eligibility: Offered to the student with the highest marks for principal study in both undergraduate and postgraduate studies
Criteria: Outstanding talent and commitment
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Next award to be made in 2009
Award Date: December 2009
Amount: $2000
Eligibility: Third year repertoire student
Criteria: Financial need, commitment and potential
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Application forms available from the VCA Music General Office
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Award Date: March 2009
Amount: $250
Eligibility: Third year repertoire piano student based on second year results
Criteria: Financial need, commitment and potential
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Next award to be made in 2009
Award Date: December 2009
Amount: grants of up to $250
Eligibility: Enrolled students in undergraduate or postgraduate study
Criteria: See Terms and Conditions via link below
Application Procedure: Download application form
Date/Frequency: June and November 2009
Amount: $3,500 (total prize money)
Eligibility: Third year repertoire brass student and undergraduate brass student participating in orchestra
Criteria: Level of attainment in Principal Study and other practical course subjects; commitment and personal contribution to musical activities in the College or community as demonstrated by concert programs and evidence from Head of Brass
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Next award to be made in 2009
Award Date: December 2009
Amount: $2,500 (total prize money)
Eligibility: First year undergraduate cello students
Criteria: The decision to award this scholarship is based on the audition that students undertake for entry into the VCA.
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: This award is not open to student application
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Next award to be made in 2010
Amount: $20,000 (awarded as the Dobell Scholarship $10,000 and Prize $10,000 for travel and further study. Intended to be awarded to the same student, but in exceptional circumstances may be awarded to two different students.)
Eligibilty: for a final year student enrolled in Music Theatre VCA.
Criteria:
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Artistic Merit as demonstrated by specific assessment tasks and continuous assessment and performance tasks.
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Likely success in completing proposed course of study.
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Provision of a complete and compelling travel /study itinerary and budget.
Selection: By Selection Committee, comprising Academic Staff and an independent Industry Representative
Application Procedure: Application form, including proposal for travel budget and itinerary, completion of assessment and performance tasks. Please check back later for applications for 2009.
Date/frequency: Annually. Scholarship awarded in June and Prize in October.
Amount: approximately $10,000 in prizes
Eligibility: Classical voice student (undergraduate and postgraduate)
Criteria: Potential as demonstrated to the panel; evidence of attainment to date that student is likely to complete all components of the course
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Application forms available here
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Applications close: 20 November 2009
Award Date: December 2009
Amount: $2,000
Eligibility: A Composition student enrolled in the Bachelor of Music Performance, Bachelor of Music Performance (Honours), Postgraduate Diploma in Music Performance or Master of Music Performance courses
Criteria: Students are not eligible unless they have satisfactorily completed at least one year of a Bachelor of Music degree at an Australian university.
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Application forms including Terms and Conditions (click this link to download PDF)
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Award Date: September 2009
Amount: $2000
Eligibility: Second year voice students (in 2009) in undergraduate repertoire stream
Criteria: Potential is demonstrated to the panel and evidence of attainment to date
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: All second year students (in 2009) will be invited to audition
Date/Frequency: This award is offered each year
Next award to be made in 2010
Amount: $5000
Eligibility: Final year undergraduate or postgraduate repertoire students intending to pursue further study in Europe.
Criteria: Results of assessments and proposed overseas study program (preferably in The Netherlands)
Selection: Winner selected by Academic Staff
Application Procedure: Application forms available from the VCA Music Office
Date/Frequency: This award is offered biannually.
Next award to be made in 2009
Award Date: October 2009