Marsden Fund Masters Scholarship in Music

Please read the regulations carefully to be sure you are eligible to apply. Then click on the “Apply now” button and complete the online application form. We recommend you check the form early in case a reference or endorsement is required to support your application, and to familiarise yourself with the form. All sections (including request sections) must be completed by the closing date, which is midnight on the specified date (unless stated otherwise). We recommend you do not have two different scholarship applications open within the same browser.

Outcomes are determined by a selection committee and are usually notified around six weeks after the closing date.

Up to $17,000, plus up to $10,000 towards compulsory tuition fees

The Scholarship may be awarded to a student who is enrolled full-time in a masters thesis, research portfolio or research project of at least 90 points in a Master of Music (MMus) in the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland who meets all the requirements of these regulations and who is or will be undertaking research in the culture of musical arrangement and women in private musical life in Vienna c.1790-c.1830. Students who have already commenced the research component of their programme are not eligible for consideration for this scholarship.

To take up and be paid the Scholarship, the recipient must be enrolled full-time in a thesis, research portfolio or research project of at least 90 points in a Master of Music. The Scholarship is tenable by a domestic or international student