Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music

This prize was founded in the year 1943 in memory of the late Philip Foster Neill, by his sister, who in that year settled the sum of £1,000 with the Trustees, Executors and Agency Co. Ltd., with instructions to pay the annual income to the Council. The late Mr Philip Neill was a medical student of the University of Otago, who died in 1943. Applicants must submit an original and unaided work in a form of structure prescribed by examiners, along with a midi recording of the work. The composition must be written for taonga pūoro (one player) and one other instrument/voice from a specified list, and should be between 8–15 minutes in duration.