Percy Brier Memorial Prize
This scholarship is closed.
- Enrolment status
- Current UQ student
- Student type
- Domestic, International
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Study area
- Arts, humanities and social sciences
- Scholarship focus
- Creative excellence
- Scholarship value
- Income from the endowment fund.
- Scholarship duration
- 1 year
- Number awarded
- 1
- Applications open
- 5 February 2024
- Applications close
- 28 March 2024
Eligibility
You're eligible if you:
- are an enrolled student
- your composition style/genre submission meets the conditions for the year, set by the Head of School of Music.
How to apply
Apply using the online application form. You will need to provide:
- details of the work you propose to perform
- a short bio.
Email your application to concerts@uq.edu.au.
Use our tips for putting together a great application to help you through this process.
Selection criteria
We'll consider:
- musical effectiveness: how well musical resources are used to create an engaging, expressive and/or surprising musical result
- creativity: how individual and distinctive the music is, and how well new or individual ideas are realised
- technical achievement: how idiomatic the music for the instruments is, how clearly and professionally the score is presented.
Percy Brier Composition Application Details
The University of Queensland is excited to announce an opportunity for composers to create a new piece in honour of Percy Brier. This piece, designed for SATB (with divisi if required), is expected to run for approximately 4 –5 minutes.
Text Selection and Approval:
Composers have the freedom to choose the text for their composition.
It is mandatory that the chosen text be discussed and approved by Dr Robert Davidson.
Please ensure that this discussion occurs prior to the application closing date of March 28.
Premiere and Conducting:
The composed piece will be premiered at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) concert on 15 September and will be conducted by the renowned Dane Lam.
Submission Deadlines:
All compositions must be submitted by 16 June.
What happens next
We'll send you an email to let you know when we've received your application. If you have not received an email within 2 days of applying, email us at concerts@uq.edu.au.
About this scholarship
Percy Brier (1885-1970) was born in Queensland and studied at Trinity College and the Royal Academy of Music. He was a Brisbane-based organist, choral director, composer, music teacher and music historian in a professional career that began in 1906 and extended for more than six decades.
More information about Percy is available in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Following his death, his son Eric Brier provided a gift to establish a prize in his memory for composition of greatest promise.