Sir Thomas Elder's proposal for scholarships in music performance, tenable at the Conservatorium, was accepted by the Council of the University of Adelaide in 1897. There are five categories of performance for which Elder Scholarships may be awarded each year by the board of the Elder Conservatorium, which entitle the holder to three years' free tuition in their principal subjects and in such secondary subjects as the director of the Conservatorium may approve.
Elder Scholarship — partial list of recipients Piano 1898: Elsie M. Hamilton Maude Mary Puddy — special mention 1899: Maude Mary Puddy 1902: Florence Olga Schache 1908: L. A. H. "Harry" Brose 1911: Dorothy Oldham when? Ariel Shearer 1916: Myrtle Gwendoline Adamson 1919: Alice Meegan 1924: Peggy Palmer 1927: Betty Froome Puddy 1930: Winifred Louise "Wynne" Fisher 1936: Maurine Bonython 1947: Ashleigh Hambridge Tobin 1954: Shirley Curry
Violin 1898: Nora Kyffin Thomas 1902: Eugene Horatio Alderman 1906: Daisy Kennedy 1907: Bertha Jones 1909: Hilda Marie Reimann, 1912: Erica Chaplin (aged 13) 1916: Tryphena Grace Pyne 1922: Edward Black 1929: George Hooker 1933: Teresa Audrey Commane 1947: Beatrice Jane Allgrove 1954: I. Beckler
Violoncello 1902: Harold Stephen Parsons 1904: Fritz Homburg 1920: Melville W. J. Williams 1927: John O'Connor McCabe 1935: Beatrice Ellen Pether
Organ 1912: Alfred Bampton 1924: Arnold Carey Farley 1928: Norman Chinner 1930: Gordon Bowen 1936: Clarence Black 1937: Clifford Reginald Bevan 1940: Colin Holmes 1947: John Murray Gordon 1954: P. Cooper
Singing 1902: Maurice Clayton Chenoweth (tenor) 1906: May Clytie Hine 1908: two awarded Muriel E. Cheek Walter J. Wood (special tenor prize) 1909: Francis H. Halls 1916: two awarded Hilda Simcock (contralto) Annie Vera Thrush 1919: three awarded Valda Harvey Raymond Wood Reginald Thrush (special tenor prize) 1929: Geraldine Cash 1931: Mavis Beryl Kekwick 1936: Mary Constance Dempster
Eugene Alderman Scholarship The Alderman Scholarship was founded 1908 by Eugene Alderman, and after his death revived as a memorial from funds raised for the purpose, and in this incarnation was awarded concurrently with the Elder Scholarship, for students of violin (for preference), otherwise violoncello, pianoforte, organ, or singing. It was originally for three years' tuition at the Elder Conservatorium, but later for a cash amount of $18 10s. (around $1000 in today's values).
See also Elder Overseas Scholarship to Royal College of Music, London
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