This scholarship has closed - for the next intake

Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music

Scholarship details

Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music
Study levels Degree
Value $1,500
Close date Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Domestic/international Domestic Only

魅影直播 the scholarship

This prize was founded in the year 1943 in memory of the late Philip Foster Neill, by his sister, who in that year settled the sum of 拢1,000 with the Trustees, Executors and Agency Co. Ltd., with instructions to pay the annual income to the Council. The late Mr Philip Neill was a medical student of the University of Otago, who died in 1943. Applicants must submit an original and unaided work in a form of structure prescribed by examiners, along with a midi recording of the work. An exercise which has been submitted for the degree of Bachelor of Music or a composition which has already been published in written or recorded form, including public broadcast, will not be accepted. The composition must be written for taonga p奴oro (one player) and one other instrument/voice from the specified list, and should be between 8鈥15 minutes in duration.

Entry requirements

Applicants must be a past or present student of a university in New Zealand. The work should include a programme note and any performance notes necessary. Compositions must include a computer-set musical score and a MIDI recording that approximates the sounds of the instruments/voices.