For the second consecutive year, the Mozart Fellow is Tauranga composer Christopher Watson.
Dr Watson plans to use the tenure to complete orchestral and solo cello works, as well as commissioned works for two pianos and a gamelan ensemble.
"Being appointed Mozart Fellow for a second term is a huge honour.
"With several months of my first year as Fellow still to run, I am now able to plan projects through to the start of 2010 in the knowledge that I will be able to devote myself full-time to their realisation," he said yesterday.
Alexandra poet, editor and psychotherapist Michael Harlow is the 2009 Robert Burns Fellow.
He will use his tenure to write a new book of poems and short prose, titled The Invisible Reader.
His latest poetry collection, The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap, will be released in February.
"The fellowship means a great deal to me as a working writer. It's a fine gift and I'm grateful to have it in hand, especially at this point in my writing life."
The 2009 Frances Hodgkins Fellow is Auckland artist Eddie Clemens, who will create a new series of works based on ordinary aspects of New Zealand suburban and rural life.
Clemens plans to create a kiwiana souvenir series of large-scale manufactured works, which confront the traditional kitsch associated with souvenir culture.
Auckland community dancer Sean Curham is the 2009 Caroline Plummer Fellow and will use his tenure to complete a dance project, "Four Legs Better Than Two", which highlights the benefits of walking with a dog.
The 50th anniversary of the Robert Burns Fellowship will be commemorated at the Otago Festival of the Arts next month.
More than 30 former Burns Fellows are coming to Dunedin for "Nurse to the Imagination", which will feature a series of lunch-time talks and readings by former Burns Fellows.
The event will culminate in the unveiling of a plaque in the Octagon at 5.30pm on Friday, October 10.