Mozart Fellowship

The Mozart Fellowship is a composer residency attached to the Music Department of the University of Otago, one of the five Arts Fellowships at the university. The Mozart Fellowship is New Zealand's premier compositional residency; the list of past fellows includes many of New Zealand's most notable composers. The current Mozart Fellow is Kenneth Young (until January 2021).

The Fellowship was established in 1969 and the first appointed Mozart Fellow was Anthony Watson. It is awarded for a 12-month period, and no composer may hold the Fellowship for more than two years. Composers are also expected to spend the majority of their time based in Dunedin.

The appointed composer is paid a stipend which allows him or her to live and are given the freedom to work on projects of their own choice, although traditionally many recipients of the award have written compositions for performers within the University's Music Department or the city's orchestra Dunedin Symphony.

List of Mozart Fellows

• 1970–71 Anthony Watson
• 1972 John Rimmer
• 1973–74 Edwin Carr
• 1975 Larry Pruden
• 1976–77 Gillian Bibby
• 1980 Chris Cree Brown
• 1981 John Elmsly
• 1983 Chris Cree Brown
• 1984 Jonathan Besser
• 1985 Kim Dyett
• 1986–87 Nigel Keay
• 1988–89 Anthony Ritchie
• 1990–91 Martin Lodge
• 1992 Gillian Whitehead and Bruce Crossman
• 1993 Helen Bowater
• 1994–95 Christopher Marshall
• 1996 Cheryl Camm
• 1997 Jason Kaminski
• 1998 Paul Booth
• 1999 Harold Anderson
• 2000 Ross Carey
• 2001 Alison Isadora
• 2002 Michael Norris
• 2003–04 Noel Sanders
• 2005–06 Rachel Clement
• 2007 Neville Copland
• 2008–09 Chris Watson
• 2010–11 Chris Adams
• 2012 Robbie Ellis
• 2013 Samuel Holloway
• 2014–15 Jeremy Mayall
• 2016-17 Chris Gendall
• 2018-19 Dylan Lardelli ,
• 2020 Kenneth Young ,

See also

• Frances Hodgkins Fellowship
• Robert Burns Fellowship

External links

• University of Otago Mozart Fellowship page