Music Scholarships

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AFB (American Foundation for the Blind)
AFB administers two music scholarships for women: R.L.Gillette Scholarship and the Gladys C. Anderson Memorial Scholarship.

Arts for Life!
Annual scholarships for 25 graduating Florida high school seniors in the arts.

ASCAP Foundation Leiber & Stoller Music Scholarship
Assistance to young aspiring songwriters, musicians and vocalists. Two awards are given each year: one to an incoming freshman at Berklee College of Music in Boston, for which the school auditions the recipient; the second recipient is auditioned by the Young Musicians Foundation in Los Angeles.

Associated Male Choruses of America
Annual scholarship program is open to all qualified and deserving students of music. Amount may vary each year (’11-’12 scholarships range from $1000 – $1200 each). Scholarships are for students enrolled in undergraduate university/college music programs with preference given to those majoring in vocal music, although students of instrumental music are also eligible.

Best Buy Scholarship Program
Provides scholarships to “students who plan to enter a full-time undergraduate course of study upon high school graduation. Scholarship recipients are selected based on academic achievement, volunteerism efforts and/or work experience.”

BMI Student Composer Awards
For young composers of classical music under the age of 28 and enrolled in accredited high schools, colleges or conservatories of music, or engaged in private study of music with recognized and established teachers. The postmark deadline is usually in early February and applications are available as of the preceding November.

Boettcher Foundation Scholarships
For Colorado residents; for most Colorado schools.

Central Florida Jazz Society
For high school seniors and college freshmen, sophomores and juniors furthering their studies in jazz music. Must either be residents of or will be or are currently attending a college in central Florida.

Chopin Foundation of the U.S.
Gives up to ten renewable scholarships of $1000 each to pianists age 14 – 17.

Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation
Gives scholarships to high school seniors.

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBC) Spouses Heineken USA Performing Arts Scholarship
For prospective or current college students planning on a career in the performing arts. Must show leadership ability and participate in community service activities.

Davidson Fellows
Scholarships are awarded to “extraordinary young people, 18 and under, who have completed a significant piece of work” in several areas including music.

Drum Corps International (DCI)
Scholarships for high school seniors and college students who are current members of an Open or World Class corps.

Gates Millennium Scholars
Offering minority higher education scholarships through United Negro College Fun (UNCF), Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC), and Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF).

Glenn Miller Scholarship Competition
Offers high school seniors and college freshmen instrumental and vocal scholarships.

Golden Key Visual and Performing Arts Achievement Award
Annual scholarships in the amount of $1000 to undergraduate and graduate students who are members of Golden Key International Honour Society. Instructions for becoming a member of Golden Key and for submitting online performances for scholarship consideration are available on the Golden Key website. Deadline for 2012: 3/1/12

Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award – From the Top Scholarship
Each year approximately 20 young musicians (ages 8-18) are selected for the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. Applicants must be pre-collegiate classical musicians between the ages of 8 and 18 who demonstrate a high level of musical achievement and financial need.

JEN (Jazz Education Network)
JEN offers several scholarships; application criteria and forms are on the JEN website (see navigation bar at the top of their site for the link).  Annual deadline for applications is September 30th.

John Lennon Scholarships
For young songwriters, ages 15 through 24, working in any genre. John Lennon Endowed Program for Performing Arts, Music, Communications, Mass Media Arts

John Philip Sousa Foundation
National Young Artists Solo Competition. For high school students on French horn, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, and saxophone. Scholarship given in each instrumental category to students who will be performance or music education majors.

King Award
The King Award for Young Artists National Music Competition offers a $5,000 prize and rotates between string and piano for students between ages 18 – 26. The winner will perform with the Salina Symphony (all expenses paid). Deadline is March 15.

Loan Forgiveness Programs
This program discharges any remaining debt on federal student loans after 10 years of full-time employment in public service and 120 payments.

MTNA (Music Teachers National Association)
Composing and performance competitions for high school students whose teachers are members of MTNA.

Music for All Foundation Scholarships
Given to students who plan to major in music education and who are nominated by their school band director.

NAfME Copyright Awareness Scholarship
Sponsored by Music Publishers’ Association (MPA), this scholarship is determined by creative videos used to educate peers on the importance of intellectual property and copyright law.

National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM)
Provides scholarships to NPM members in undergraduate and graduate pastoral music programs, for registration, tuition, fees, or books.

National Federation of Music Clubs
Scholarships for college, summer arts programs, festival attendance for college as well as high school students.

peermusic Latin Scholarship
For songwriters and composers who are current students at colleges and universities located in the United States and Puerto Rico. Applicants must be between the ages of 16 and 24. All words and music must be original. The application deadline is in February.

Percussive Arts Society
Gives scholarships and grants to student percussionists who are current members of the Percussive Arts Society (PAS).

Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
Given to students for significant volunteer services to their communities.

Rislov Foundation Scholarships
Given to individuals and groups studying classical music.

Robert Sherman Scholarship
A $1,000 scholarship is awarded each year to a talented student composer studying musical theatre. The recipient is chosen by the Steering Committee of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop; by nomination only (no applications).

Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI) Scholarship/Grant Program
This international music fraternity was established for women college students “with a sincere interest in music” in 1903. To qualify for a scholarship, loan or award, you must be a SAI college chapter member or alum.

Sinfonia Educational Foundation (SEF) Scholarships
Applicants must be college chapter members of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national men’s fraternal music society, to apply for $500 – $2500 scholarships.

Sphinx Competition
For young Black and Latino string players. Open to current U.S. residents who are Black or Latino and play the Violin, Viola, Cello or Double Bass. Prizes include cash scholarships, summer program scholarships and college/conservatory scholarships.

Susan L. Tajra Music Scholarship
An annual scholarship to a young classical keyboard (piano, organ or harpsichord) student who is about to enter a college-level music school or already enrolled there. Criteria include financial need, academic excellence, and musical talent.

UNCF-administered for UNCF (United Negro College Fund) schools
Michael Jackson Scholarship (all levels of college plus graduate school)
Music, visual and performing arts (Feb deadline)

VSA International Young Soloists Program
The VSA (international Organization on Arts and Disability) International Young Soloists Award is given annually to young musicians ages 25 and under, with disabilities. Ensembles with at least one member with a disability are also eligible.

Women Band Directors International
Women Band Directors International (WBDI) offers scholarships to female college students who are majoring in music education with the intention of becoming band directors, and who are about to student teach. The deadline for application is December 1st, with notification given by the middle of the following January.

YoungArts
YoungArts, a division of the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts, offers monetary awards to promising high school students in all of the performing and visual arts as well as writing. U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts are chosen from YoungArts Finalists.

Young Musicians Foundation
Financial assistance for talented young musicians ages 9 – 25 and residing in Southern California, for private music instruction, music camp/school tuition or festival attendance.

 

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