Now open: Joy and Norman Wheatley School of Music Scholarship

Students practice the violin during teaching sessions with at the ANU School of Music (Lannon Harley/ANU).

Photo Lannon Harley (ANU)

Applications are now open for the School of Music's most recently established award: the Joy and Norman Wheatley School of Music Scholarship.

This award seeks to support up to 3 first-year undergraduate students who are either planning to undertake an honours year or are studying a double degree, and who can demonstrate skills as a music practitioner/performer, with a preference to students studying Western music, broadly construed. There will be 2 rounds of this award: one in 2026 and the other in 2027.

The value of the prize is $10,000 per annum for up to 5 years of undergraduate music study. Joy Wheatley has generously provided funding for this award.

The award is determined by an application process. The application window commences on Monday, 29 June 2026 and closes on Sunday, 9 August 2026 (11.59 pm AEST). 

Apply here:

https://anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXJaY3sehavk9Ke

To know more about the conditions of the award, please read the document below.

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