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20/08/2025

2025 Arts Excellence Award Recipients Announced

Three outstanding young classical musicians have each been awarded $10,000 as recipients of the 2025 Dame Malvina Major Foundation ...

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12/08/2025

Dame Malvina Major Foundation Organist Award

The Dame Malvina Major Foundation is calling for youthful organists to apply for the 2025 Maxwell Fernie Dame Malvina Major ...

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14/08/2023

DMMF Arts Excellence Awards 2023 Recipients

As part of the Dame Malvina Major Foundation's Arts Excellence Awards 2023, five sopranos, a pianist, a trombonist, a flautist ...

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10/05/2023

Dame Malvina Major Foundation Awards Now Countrywide

The Dame Malvina Major Foundation Awards is now available countrywide, offering talented young performing artists across ...

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19/10/2022

Oliver Sewell Wins Dame Malvina Major Award

Ōtautahi tenor Oliver Sewell has been announced winner of the $50,000 Dame Malvina Major Award, at what he says is a “critical ...

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15/09/2022

South Island 2022 Arts Excellence Awards Winners

Coloratura soprano Calla Knudson and composer and musicologist Ihlara McIndoe are the winners of the 2022 Arts Excellence ...

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05/07/2022

Dame Malvina Major Foundation South Island Boost

The Christchurch committee of the Dame Malvina Major Foundation is inviting applications from across Te Waipounamu for its ...

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29/08/2018

Baritone Will King Wins Wellington Aria

Baritone Will King took first prize at the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Wellington Aria on Sunday night. Second place was ...

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06/06/2017

Whangarei’s Eliza Boom Wins Christchurch Aria 2017

Whangarei soprano Eliza Boom has won the first prize in the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Christchurch Aria 2017. The ...

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