Established in 1904/5 and endowed separately by the American benefactor Andrew Carnegie and 1st Baron, Samuel Ernest Palmer (both Honorary Freemen of the Company) to fund scholarships at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Initially, each fund would provide up to 3 years' free tuition for 2 post graduate students. From 1926 these awards amalgamated into one Scholarship per fund and from 1971 were amalgamated further into a single fund for one student per year. The Award became known as The Carnegie/Palmer Scholarship. Excellence in 'sight reading' has always been a special condition of the Award.
In 2016, this award was replaced by the Musicians' Company Orchestral Artistry Scholarship - Click Here for further details.
Past Winners:
1905 - Elizabeth Tarttelin and Catherine Harman (C)
1905 - Muriel Herbert and Robert Stannard (P)
1908 - Grace Hawkins and Lionel Stanton (C)
1909 - Edith Harrhy and John Salter (P)
1911 - George Robert Stratton (C)
1912 - Kathleen Plank (C)
1913 - Ivy Rose and Leo Turpin (P)
1914 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1915 - Frank Hedley Nicholas (C), Lilian Irene Hurst (P),
1916 - Reginald William Pursglove (C)
1917 - Henry Stanley Taylor (P)
1918 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1919 - Kenneth Turner (C)
1920 - Katharine Mapple (C)
1921 - Douglas Hopkins (P)
1922 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1923 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1924 - Edith Corner (C), Beatrice Tanner (P)
1925 - John Robert Barnes (P)
1926 - Award becomes a single Scholarship from each fund
1927 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1928 - Helen Mary Smith (C)
1929 - Constance Cockerell (P)
1930 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1931 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1932 - Marjorie Mary Grange (C)
1933 - Veronica Norwood (P)
1934 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1935 - Arthur George Haley (C), Dorothy Kelly (P)
1936 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1937 - Mary Rachel Baseden (C)
1938 - Olive May Jack (P)
1939 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1940 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1941 - Barbara Myra Sharpe (C), Brenda Farrow (P)
1942 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1943 - Margaret Edythe Evans (C)
1944 - Mary Penheath Angwin (P)
1945 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1946 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1947 - Edward Maurice Samway (C)
1948 - Jeanne Mary Bailey (P), Joan Gabriel (C)
1949 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1950 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1951 - Shirley Gillian Walker (C), Patricia Langridge (P)
1952 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1953 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1954 - Julia Ann Warr (C), Judith Mary Bird
1955 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1956 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1957 - Sonia Levy (P)
1958 - Roger Francis Lunn (C)
1959 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1960 - Barbara Toppin (C), Elizabeth Barnett (P)
1961 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1962 - Jean Wilcox (P), Barry Kerry (C)
1963 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1964 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1965 - Richard Atkinson (P),
1966 - Janet Way (C)
1967 - Robert Cook (C)
1968 - John Abbey (P)
1969 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1970 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1971 - Anna Deathridge (P), Alison Jones (C)
At this point the awards were rationalised again and at a Court meeting of 5th July 1971 it was resolved that "...the Ernest Palmer Scholarship and the Andrew Carnegie Scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama be combined to provide an annual post-Diploma bursary[.] The Award to be known as the S.Ernest Palmer and Andrew Carnegie Music Scholarship for Post Diploma Study."
1972 - no new award winners this year (previous winners renewed)
1973 - Carol Harvey
1974 - award not minuted
1975 - award not minuted
1976 - Alison Sutton
1977 - Neil Lunt
1978 - Michael MacLean
1979 - Richard Cheetham
1980 - Barbara Redway
1981 - Margaret Izatt
1982 - Christopher Buckley
1983 - Elizabeth Morfee
1984 - David Riddell
1985 - Valerie Kampmeier
1986 - H Jones
1987 - Laurence Whitehead
1988 - Wei Kiat Ong
1989 - Edison Herbert
1990 - Francesc Garrigosa (Palmer) & Gisella Arnold (Carnegie)
1991 - Helen Lothian (Palmer) & Gisella Arnold (Carnegie)
1992 - Maria Fitzgerald (Palmer) & Stephen Ashworth (Carnegie)
1993 - Thomas Hewins
1994 - not recorded
1995 - Silas Standage
1996 - not recorded
1997 - Finnur Bjarnason
1998 - Alexander Somov
1999 - Nikolay Trendafilov
2000 - Hakan Vramsmo
2001 - Jamal Moqadem
2002 - Evgeny Osokin
2003 - Boris Brovtsyn
2004 - Phillipe Villafranca
2005 - Sibilia Konstantinova
2006 - Adriane Tilanus
2007 - Lioubov Ulybysheva
2008 - Leslie Boulin Raulet
2009 - Olga Muszynska
2010 - Ella Rundle
2011 - Kaija Lukas
2012 - Alejandra Diaz Perez
2013 - Jordan Sian
2014 - Monika Chmielewska
2015 - Hin-Yat Tsang
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