Philip Neill Memorial Prize

The Philip Neill Memorial Prize is an annual prize administered by the University of Otago for excellence in original composition.[1] The award is open to all past and present students of a university in New Zealand, except previous winners who are excluded for a period of five years.

It was established in 1943 in memory of Philip Foster Neill, a medical student at the University of Otago who died during the polio outbreak of 1943. In the first year of the prize, 1944, the topic was for a prelude (or fantasia) and fugue for either piano or organ. Douglas Lilburn was publicly awarded the first prize of £25 on 25 June 1944, with Harry Luscombe of Auckland the runner-up.[2] It is the longest continuously running award of its kind in New Zealand.

The prize is determined each year with a set task with different parameters each year, usually relating to duration and instrumentation, which are announced early in the year, with a deadline for submission at the beginning of July. The prize is not always awarded.

List of award recipients
  • 1944 Douglas Lilburn for Prelude and Fugue in G Minor for organ[3]
  • 1945 Harry Luscombe for Sonata in G major for violin and piano[4]
  • 1946 Frank Callaway for Theme and Variations for String Orchestra[5]
  • 1947 tied between Dorothy Scott for In a younger Land, a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and violin, cello and piano[6] and Dorothea Anne Franchi for The Desolate Star a song cycle for baritone and piano setting text by Robin Hyde [7]
  • 1948 John Ritchie for Passacaglia and fugue on an original theme for two pianos[8]
  • 1949 Charles Martin for Sonata for pianoforte and violin[9]
  • 1950 Claire Neale for Variations on an original theme in the phyrgian mode, with a ground bass finale[10]
  • 1951 Georgina Smith for Theme and Variations [for two pianos][11]
  • 1952 Leslie Pearce Williamson Jordan for Fantasy-sonata for cello and piano
  • 1953 No award
  • 1954 Nigel Eastgate
  • 1955, 1956, 1957 No award
  • 1958 Barry Vercoe for A Program Suite for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon[12]
  • 1959 Dorothy Freed for Variations for woodwind quintet[13] and Philip Hodgson
  • 1960, 1961 No award
  • 1962 shared between Robin Maconie for Basia Memoranda for lyric tenor and string quartet and Graham Hollobon for Elegy, a song cycle setting text by Alastair Campbell
  • 1963 William Southgate for Toccata for Brass Choir[14] and Jenny McLeod
  • 1964 No award
  • 1965 Jack Body for Cantata for the festival of dedication of a church[15][16]
  • 1966 William Hawkey
  • 1967, 1968 No award
  • 1969 Noel Sanders
  • 1970 Gillian Bibby for Sanctuary of the Spirits, a children's opera,[17][18]
  • 1971 John Rimmer for Composition 2[19]
  • 1972 Christopher Norton
  • 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 No award
  • 1978 David Hamilton for Canticle 1 for oboe, baritone and piano.
  • 1979 Peter Adams for Sings Daphne for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano [20]
  • 1980 John Ritchie for Three Housman Songs
  • 1981 No award
  • 1982 Helen Caskie for Rhapsody for violin and piano[21]
  • 1983 No award
  • 1984 Richard Francis for Song-cycle (Auden) for Baritone and Pianoforte
  • 1985 Nigel Keay for Variations for piano
  • 1986 No award
  • 1987 Eve de Castro-Robinson for Undercurrents for solo clarinet
  • 1988, 1989, 1990 No award
  • 1991 Maria Grenfell for A Pinch of time ; five songs for bass-baritone and piano setting poems by Hone Tuwhare, Kevin Ireland and Allen Curnow[22]
  • 1992 John Elmsly[23] for Songs from 'The Treehouse' for SATB choir
  • 1993 Eve de Castro-Robinson for Split the Lark for violin and piano
  • 1994 Tecwyn Evans for Gerauschvoll for organ[24]
  • 1995 Christopher Marshall for Three Aspects of Spring
  • 1995 Dorothy Buchanan for Fragments and Letters for voice, clarinet and piano.
  • 1996 Cheryl Camm for Three Burns Songs for Soprano, Clarinet and Cello[25]
  • 1996 Michael Norris[26]
  • 1997 David Farquhar for Prospero
  • 1998 No award
  • 1999 Jeroen Speak for Etudes.
  • 2000 Leonie Holmes for A Tedious Brief Scene: Bottom's Dance for mixed chamber ensemble of nine players[27]
  • 2001 No award
  • 2002 Thorsten Wollman for Fishes and Birds for flute or violin, clarinet and piano[28]
  • 2003 John Rimmer for Bowed Insights for string quartet[19]
  • 2004 Robin Toan for Maze for piano and two percussionists[29]
  • 2005 No award
  • 2006 Carol Shortis for The Riddle of her flight
  • 2007 Brian Bromberg [30]
  • 2008 Chris Adams for Persephone for String Quartet[31]
  • 2009 Jack Body for Mediations on Michelangelo
  • 2010 No award
  • 2011 Alex Campbell-Hunt for Piano Trio
  • 2012 Corwin Newall for Scientists (Part 1)
  • 2013 Kerian Veraine for Crave Release for violin and piano
  • 2014 Linda Dallimore[32] for Syria: In Empathy for oboe and piano
  • 2015 Jeremy Mayall for Frosted Air Suite for flute and electronics[33]
  • 2016 Reuben Jelleyman for Soliloquy for Cello[34]
  • 2017 No award
  • 2018 Corwin Newall for #babylife for piano duet[35]
  • 2019 Megan Kyte[36] for Entends
  • 2020 David Hamilton for Canticle 6: Fragments from Lorca for Mezzo, Violin and Piano,[37] highly commended Chris Adams for Dowland Fragments for Mezzo, Violin and Piano
  • 2021 Ben Hoadley for Four Preludes for cello and piano [38]

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