Prizes & Scholarships

Prizes:

• The Croser Hughes Chamber Music Award - £100 for the best undergraduate chamber music ensemble.
• Joyce Dixey Award - £200 for the best composition performed at a special concert held each year.
• The Richard Giles Prize - not less than £100 for the Tonmeister student whose Level HE2 mark has most increased compared to his/her Level HE1 mark.
• The APRS Jacques Levy Memorial Award - £250 for the best final-year Tonmeister project.
• David Lovatt Music Composition Prize - £500 for the winner of a competition to write a piece for professional ensemble (the money being used to pay for the costs of rehearsal, performance and recording of the piece).
• The Shona M Mackay Dissertation Prize - not less than £50 for best BMus (Music) final year dissertation.
• Robert Naylor Memorial Prize - not less than £50 for the most meritorious undergraduate performance in the degree recitals.
• AMS-Neve Prize for Creative Recording - £150 for the best final-year Tonmeister tape portfolio (donated by AMS-Neve plc).
• The AMS-Neve Discretionary Prize - £75 for the Most Natural Sounding Classical Recording for the most natural-sounding classical recording in a final-year portfolio.
• The Graham Smith Memorial Prize - £150 for the best final year undergraduate composition folio.

Scholarships (see also FAQ C8):

• 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.
• Penningtons Scholarship - £1,000 available to an undergraduate performer in year 1; the holder may be required to perform outside the University from time to time

NB...

• Students will not be allowed to hold more than one scholarship at any one time. Scholarship-holders will be expected to take a leading part in the musical life of the Department, and to represent the Department at outside events.
• Scholarships will be awarded by audition early in the Autumn Semester. A notice will be posted at the start of Freshers' week. Sign your name on this notice at the first opportunity. At the audition you should expect to play a piece of your own choice, lasting no more than 5 minutes. You may also be asked to play some technical exercises (sight-reading, scales, etc.).