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UWA Music graduate Andrew Cichy has won one of the most prestigious scholarships offered by Oxford University: a Clarendon Scholarship, awarded for three years of doctoral study.

Open to international graduate students in all subject areas, these scholarships are highly competitive with a success rate of less than 10 per cent. The scholarship covers university and college (accommodation) fees, and also provides a generous living allowance.

For the past year Andrew has been studying at Oxford in the Master of Studies (MSt) in Music (Musicology) program. It has been an exciting and busy year, with research undertaken in both England and on the Continent. Andrew has seized every opportunity and has undertaken extensive practical studies in addition to his Masters research program: organ tuition, choral conducting lessons, and singing lessons.

Andrew will begin his DPhil in the new (northern) academic year. His proposed topic is: 'English Catholic Liturgical Music after the Reformation: Behind locked doors or on distant shores. A study of repertoire, style and musical practices'. We all wish him well in the next exciting phase of his study.

Lorenzo Di Paolo was the successful recipient of the 2009 Friends of Music Travelling Scholarship. The funds will assist Lorenzo as he continues his studies at the Freiburg Musikhochschule in Germany, completing a Master in Performance under Harpsichord Professor Robert Hill and Basso Continuo teacher Michael Behringer. Lorenzo will be returning to Perth at the end of 2011.