Prizes and Scholarships
Scholarships
- The HR Taylor Trust - has very kindly provided two scholarships, each of £3000 per annum for a period of three years beginning in the academic year 2006/07. The scholarships are open to Music W300 and W301 students holding ABRSM Grade 8 on violin or viola and intending to specialize in performance. Auditions will take place in Introduction Week at the beginning of the Autumn Semester.
- The Penningtons Scholarship - This scholarship is worth £1,000 and is held for a year. It will be awarded as a result of auditions during week 3 Autumn Semester, to the most promising instrumentalist or singer in any musical style.
Penningtons is a firm of solicitors with offices in London, Basingstoke, Newbury and Godalming. They are well known for their patronage of arts projects and recently won the Southern Business Times Award in recognition of their work with The Watermill Theatre, Newbury. No student will be allowed to hold more than one scholarship. Audition will normally be heard by the Head of Performance and the staff conductor.
- Choral Scholarships - one or more, tenable for up to three
years, offered in conjunction with the Dean and Chapter of Guildford
Cathedral.
- Organ Scholarships - offered by Guildford Cathedral, tenable for up to three years.
Prizes
- The Croser Hughes Chamber Music Award - for the best undergraduate
chamber music ensemble.
- Joyce Dixey Award - for the best composition performed at
a special concert held each year (donated by the Mechanical-Copyright
Protection Society).
- The David Lovatt Prize - this composition prize is offered
in the form of a professionally performed and recorded CD of the winning
work. Robert Naylor Memorial Prize - for the most meritorious undergraduate
performance in the degree recitals.
- Robert Naylor Memorial Prize - for the most meritorious undergraduate
performance in the degree recitals.
- The Graham Smith Memorial Prize - for the best undergraduate
composition folio.
- Shoana M Mackay Dissertation Award - for the most meritorious
final-year undergraduate dissertation.
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