NZSM music therapy graduates winners of inaugural Morva Croxson Prize
Nolan Hodgson and Olly Lowery were the first and second prize winners of the 2017 Music Therapy New Zealand Morva Croxson Prize for Emergent Writers ("Morva Croxson Prize”).
The Morva Croxson Prize is an initiative of the Music Therapy New Zealand Council, named after MThNZ’s President Emeritus, Morva Croxson, a pioneer of New Zealand Music Therapy.
First place was awarded to Nolan Hodgson for his essay "He ora waiora: Music therapy and well-being in adolescent mental health”. Second prize was awarded to Olly Lowery for "Case study: Individual music therapy with an elderly man in a palliative care setting”. In addition to a monetary prize, both articles will be published in the 2018 issue of the New Zealand of Music Therapy. Both Nolan and Olly are graduates of the New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōkī Master of Music Therapy programme.
The panel of judges included Emeritus Prof Denise Grocke (University of Melbourne, Australia), Claire Molyneux NZ RMTh (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) and Dr Vini Olsen-Reeder (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ).
Postgraduate students and early career music therapists are invited to enter the 2018 Morva Croxson Prize – submission deadline September 1st. Further information and entry criteria