Sponsored by The Late Minnie May Bussey.
Value and conditions
Cash prize of $600.
Date of competition
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Entries close
Friday 2 August 2024 at 4pm
- The prize will be awarded to a Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University classical piano student for the purpose of undertaking postgraduate studies in pianoforte at the Conservatorium or an approved overseas institution.
- Previous winners of this prize are ineligible to enter.
Application form
- All competitors are required to play for between 25–40 minutes duration including five minutes for the set piece and the programme must include a work or works from each of the following categories:
- Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Scarlatti, Handel, Couperin
- Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Franck
- a virtuoso piece from the Romantic, Modern or Contemporary Repertoire
- a set piece (five minutes).
- In any year when there are no entries of a sufficiently high standard, no prize shall be awarded.
- The competition will be judged by a panel of three judges, such judges being appointed by the Director or his nominee. No judge mat be the teacher of a student who is competing.