Elder Scholarships in Music

Sir Thomas Elder's proposal for scholarships in music performance, tenable at the Conservatorium, was accepted by the Council of the University of Adelaide in 1897.[1] There are five categories of performance for which Elder Scholarships may be awarded each year by the board of the Elder Conservatorium, which entitle the holder to three years' free tuition in their principal subjects and in such secondary subjects as the director of the Conservatorium may approve.

Elder Scholarship — partial list of recipients

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Piano

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  • 1898: Elsie M. Hamilton[2]
  • 1899: Maude Mary Puddy[3]
  • 1908: L. A. H. "Harry" Brose[4][5]
  • 1911: Dorothy Oldham
  • when? Ariel Shearer[6]
  • 1916: Myrtle Gwendoline Adamson[7]
  • 1919: Alice Meegan[8]
  • 1924: Peggy Palmer[9]
  • 1927: Betty Froome Puddy
  • 1930: Winifred Louise "Wynne" Fisher[10]
  • 1936: Maurine Bonython[11]
  • 1947: Ashleigh Hambridge Tobin[12]
  • 1954: Shirley Curry[13]

Violin

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  • 1898: Nora Kyffin Thomas[2]
  • 1902: Eugene Alderman[14]
  • 1906: Daisy Kennedy[15]
  • 1907: Bertha Jones[16]
  • 1909: Hilda Marie Reimann,[17] daughter of Gotthold Reimann[16]
  • 1912: Erica Chaplin (aged 13)
  • 1916: Tryphena Grace Pyne[7]
  • 1922: Edward Black[18]
  • 1929: George Hooker
  • 1933: Teresa Audrey Commane
  • 1947: Beatrice Jane Allgrove[12]
  • 1954: I. Beckler[13]

Violoncello

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  • 1904: Fritz Homburg
  • 1920: Melville W. J. Williams[19]
  • 1927: John O'Connor McCabe
  • 1935: Beatrice Ellen Pether

Organ

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  • 1912: Alfred Bampton[20]
  • 1924: Arnold Carey Farley[21]
  • 1928: Norman Chinner[22]
  • 1930: Gordon Bowen[10]
  • 1936: Clarence Black[11] Black began his music studies while a longterm hospital inpatient.[23]
  • 1937: Clifford Reginald Bevan[24] He was a student of Ernst Koch and Maude Puddy.[25]
  • 1940: Colin Holmes[26]
  • 1947: John Murray Gordon[12]
  • 1954: P. Cooper[13]

Singing

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Muriel E. Cheek
Walter J. Wood (special tenor prize)
  • 1909: Francis H. Halls[16]
  • 1916: two awarded[7]
Hilda Simcock (contralto)
Annie Vera Thrush
  • 1919: three awarded[27]
Valda Harvey
Raymond Wood
Reginald Thrush (special tenor prize)[28]
  • 1929: Geraldine Cash
  • 1931: Mavis Beryl Kekwick
  • 1936: Mary Constance Dempster[11]

Eugene Alderman Scholarship

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The Alderman Scholarship was founded 1908 by Eugene Alderman, and after his death revived as a memorial from funds raised for the purpose,[29] and in this incarnation was awarded concurrently with the Elder Scholarship, for students of violin (for preference), otherwise violoncello, pianoforte, organ, or singing. It was originally for three years' tuition at the Elder Conservatorium, but later for a cash amount of $18 10s. (around $1000 in today's values).

See also

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References

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  20. ^ "Personal". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XLIX, no. 14, 599. South Australia. 26 April 1912. p. 1. Retrieved 4 February 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  21. ^ "Personal". Australian Christian Commonwealth. Vol. XXXVII, no. 1886. South Australia. 19 December 1924. p. 11. Retrieved 4 February 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
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