Percy Brier Memorial Prize
- Enrolment status
- Current UQ student
- Student type
- Domestic, International
- Study level
- Undergraduate, Honours, Postgraduate coursework, Postgraduate research (HDR)
- Study area
- All study areas
- Scholarship focus
- Creative excellence
- Scholarship value
- money equal to the annual income from the fund
- Scholarship duration
- 1 year
- Number awarded
- 1
Eligibility
You're eligible to apply if you are:
- enrolled as a student at UQ.
Your composition must meet the conditions imposed for the year by the Head of School of Music.
How to apply
Apply via the online application form. You must provide your personal details and details of the work you propose to compose.
Use our tips for putting together a great application to help you through this process.
Selection criteria
Eligible applicants must submit their completed composition by the date set by the Head of School of Music.
All completed compositions will be judged against the following criteria:
- 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.
What happens next
We'll acknowledge your application via email. If you haven't received an email within 2 days of applying, please email music@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.