Composition scholarship

The Elder Conservatorium of Music has received a generous and very enlightened charitable donation that establishes a new scheme for the creation of major orchestral compositions.

The Schueler Composition Awards (open to composers from or based in South Australia) have been established by Mr Norman Schueler and Mrs Carol Schueler, in honour of Mrs Gogo Schueler (Norman's mother).

Since the introduction in 2002 of a PhD by examination of composition folio the Elder Conservatorium has become a national 'hotspot' for composition, and has by far the largest concentration, in Australia, of postgraduate composers (from all parts of the country and overseas), supervised by Professor Graeme Koehne (Head of Composition) and Professor Charles Bodman Rae (Director/Dean).

The new Schueler Awards will be announced later this year and will result in major new orchestral works that will be offered for performance in 2007 by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.