Music Scholarship for Foreign Students

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23025, 30 April 1938, Page 16 (Supplement)

Music Scholarship for Foreign Students

£250 A YEAR PRIZE The British Council has decided to offer annually a scholarship of £250 a year to enable foreign music students to complete their education in England. The scholarship will entitle the holder to free musical training and .maintenance in England for three years. The annual competition for the prize will be held in London each spring, the lirst, this year, during the week beginning Monday, May D. The successful competitor will be known as the "Jiritish Council Music Scholar." The judges for the first competition will be l'rofessor Stanley Marchant (principal of the Royal Academy of Music and King Edward Professor of Music in the University of London), Dr. George Dyson (director of the Royal College of Music), Dr. G.. T. Thai ben Ball (organist of the Temple Church, London), Mr. Evlyn HowardJones (principal of the Howard-Jones School of Music), Dr. H. -C. Colles (representing the Music Committee of the British Council), and Mr. Ernest Makower (chairman of the Music Committee of the British Council, ex officio). The only comparable prize of this sort is stated to be the Prix de Rome, which enables promising art students to go to Rome to complete their education. Each country can be represented by one student, but in certain- cases a second student, if backed by a prominent conservatoire or other musical body, may also compete.