The Albert H Maggs Composition Award is provided as a commission for Australian composers to create a new musical work of a substantial nature.
The commissioned composition must be lodged with the school of Music within 18 months of the award.
The work must be original. If the work employs copyrighted or previous published material such as samples, lyrics or other music taken from other copyright holders, it must be formally cleared by the candidate prior to submitting.
Applicants must have been a resident in Australia for at least 2 years immediately preceding the last day of application for the award. Previous awardees are eligible to apply. Whilst applications are open to all, this award is typically granted to composers of some experience and has a strong history of recipients from the professional field.
Applicants do not have to be students or alumni of the University of Melbourne.
As a condition of the award the successful candidate must agree:
(a) to submit to the selection committee within eighteen months of the announcement of the grant of the award a musical work of a serious nature ("the commissioned work"): provided that the selection committee may, at its discretion, extend this period.
(b) to permit The University of Melbourne from time to time to borrow and to perform the commissioned work in public or otherwise without payment of any fee.
(c) that any disposition of the copyright in the commissioned work shall reserve to The University of Melbourne the rights set forth in section 6(b) of this University trust record.
(d) that any publication of the commissioned work must acknowledge that it was commissioned under the terms of this standing resolution.
You can save your application and return to it during the application period, however uploaded documents will not be saved for partial submissions. Applications may not be accessible after 5PM AEST on the closing date.
