Sleath String Performance Prize
- Enrolment status
- Current UQ student
- Student type
- Domestic, International
- Study level
- Undergraduate, Honours
- Study area
- Arts, humanities and social sciences
- 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 in the Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Music (Honours) or a dual program that includes the Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Music (Honours)
- available to perform at the annual competition.
How to apply
Apply via the online application form. You must provide your personal details and details of the works you propose to perform.
Use our tips for putting together a great application to help you through this process.
Selection criteria
Eligible applicants will be invited to perform at the competition where the student with the most outstanding performance on an orchestral stringed instrument with a bow will receive the prize.
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.
We'll provide more details of the competition by email after assessing your eligibility.
About this scholarship
Howard Fortnam Sleath (1899–1984) was well known to instrumentalists throughout Australia for the excellence of his craftsmanship and skill as a maker of stringed instruments. In 1974 he donated a set of four instruments (two violins, a viola and a cello) to The University of Queensland Department of Music. Following his death, the University of Queensland received a bequest from Howard Sleath to assist the study of stringed instruments played with a bow. Established in 1998, the annual Sleath String Performance Prize is one of the activities funded from that bequest.