Albert H Maggs Composition Award

Eligibility

To be eligible for this scholarship, you need to:

• be a composer who has been resident in Australia for at least 2 years immediately preceding the last day of application for the award.

Applicants do not have to be students or alumni of the University of Melbourne.

As a condition of the award the successful candidate must agree:

* to submit to the selection committee within eighteen months of the announcement of the grant of the award a work of a serious nature ('the commissioned work'). The selection committee may, at its discretion, extend this period;

* to permit The University of Melbourne from time to time to borrow and to perform the commissioned work in public or otherwise without payment of any fee.

Selection criteria

Selection will be made on the basis of documents including a list of works, overview of commissions, publications and performances, a copy of a score and matching recording of ONE composition you have written in the last three years.

Apply online via the link below (link is visible only during the application open phase)

Applicants can expect to receive an outcome 4 weeks after the closing date.