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Looking to attend college for music? Here is a list of music scholarships that can help you pay for your education, and make your future with music happen.
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American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers Scholarships (multiple)
Varies
Undergraduate and graduate level students studying composition and arranging at an American conservatory, college, or university. Must be a member of ASMAC.
American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers
Martha Marcks Mack Senior Vocal Award
$5,000
Active members of the NFMC. For graduate students pursuing a Doctoral Degree in Vocal Performance.
National Federation of Music Clubs
Associated Male Choruses of America Scholarship
Varies
Undergraduate students specializing in vocal music. (Also open to students specializing in instrumental music.)
Associated Male Choruses of America
Bev Sellers Memorial Scholarship
$5,000
Young women involved with barbershop music who are undergraduates in a music education or vocal pedagogy program.
Young Singers Foundation
Bill McKnight Legacy Scholarship
$2,000
Undergraduate or graduate students in the LGBTQ community who are enrolled full-time at an accredited post-secondary institution with a major in the liberal arts or humanities. All U.S. citizens and permanent residents from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, or Washington are welcome to apply, but preference will be given to any candidates who live in Bainbridge Island or Kitsap County of Washington.
Pride Foundation
BMI Student Composer Awards
Varies
For classical Composers under age 28 living anywhere in the Western Hemisphere and currently studying music. Compositions can be vocal, instrumental, or electronic.
BMI Foundation
Brian & Cathy Smith Memorial Fund
$500
Music Therapy Interns pursuing training in chemical dependency or adolescent issues. Must be a member of the AMTA. Must be nominated.
American Music Therapy Association
Davies-Jackson Scholarship
Full tuition
Graduating college seniors who are interested in attending Cambridge University in England to receive graduate education in music and other liberal arts fields. Must attend a private liberal arts college and be the first in their family to attend college.
Council of Independent Colleges
Dennis Coleman Scholarship
$3,300
For LGBTQ students studying choral conducting or music with preference given to those committed to creating social change through music
Pride Foundation
Dr. Lou Fischer JEN Co-Founder Scholarship
$1,000
High school students pursuing jazz studies
Jazz Education Network
Dr. Robert Hawkins Memorial Scholarship
Varies
Students specializing in instrumental music education
John Philip Sousa Foundation
E. Thayer Gaston Research Competition
$500 + opportunity to have paper reviewed for possible publication in the Journal of Music Therapy
Undergraduate Music Therapy students who are members of the AMTA
American Music Therapy Association
Edwina Eustis Dick Scholarship for Music Therapy Interns
$500
Music Therapy Interns who are members of the AMTA
American Music Therapy Association
Emil and Ruth Byer Composition Awards
$2,000 to $4,000
Active members of the NFMC. Must be over 20 but younger than 39.
National Federation of Music Clubs
Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts Scholarship
$1,000
Entering freshmen or current students interested in careers in sacred music or worship arts education. Must be a member of a United Methodist church or a Christian employed by the UMC.
United Methodist Church
Freddie Gruber Scholarship
$2,500
For the advanced study of percussion. Must be a member of PAS.
Percussive Arts Society
Glad Robinson Youse Adult Composers Award
$600
Active members of the NFMC.
National Federation of Music Clubs
Glenn Miller Scholarship
$1,000 to $3,000
Graduating seniors and college freshmen skilled in instrumental or vocal performance.
Glenn Miller Birthplace Society
Hal Leonard Collegiate Scholarship
$1,000
Undergraduates entering or continuing collegiate jazz studies
Jazz Education Network
John E. Grimes Timpani Scholarship
$1,000
Students between 18-26 interested in the study of period timpani playing. Must be a member of PAS.
Percussive Arts Society
John Lennon Scholarship
$20,000
U.S. college students between the ages of 17 and 24. Student Songwriters and Composers of contemporary musical genres.
Yoko Ono & BMI
The Lessons in Your Home Scholarship
$500
Full-time current and prospective college students studying aspects of music, music business, performance, or production at a US institution.
Lessons in Your Home
Mario Lanza Institute Scholarship
$1,000 to $2,500
Students aged 21 to 28 seeking a career in vocal performance
Mario Lanza Institute
Mary Ann Fischer Scholarship Award
$1,000
High school aged student bassists planning to pursue jazz studies in next year
Jazz Education Network
Mary Jo Papich JEN Co-Founder Women in Jazz Scholarship
$1,000
College-level women jazz musicians
Jazz Education Network
MusicFest Canada Scholarship
$500
Canadian high school students planning to pursue jazz careers
Jazz Education Network
Nashville Songwriting Scholarship
$5,000
For young Songwriters (aged 17-24) of country, folk, contemporay Christian, Americana, blues, and roots music.
BMI Foundation
NFMC Virginia Allison Collaborative Award
$2,500
Active members of the NFMC. Must be over 20 but younger than 31. For vocal or instrumental collaboration.
National Federation of Music Clubs
Nickles for Notes Scholarship
$500
Massachusetts high school seniors majoring in piano, instrument, music education, music therapy, or voice
General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Massachusetts
PAS/Armand Zildjian Percussion Scholarship
$2,000
For a full-time student percussionist enrolled in an accredited college or university school of music. Must be a member of PAS.
Percussive Arts Society
PAS/Remo Inc. Fred Hoey Memorial Scholarship
$1,000
For an incoming college freshman percussionist enrolled in the School of Music at an accredited college or university. Must be a member of PAS.
Percussive Arts Society
PAS/Yamaha Terry Gibbs Vibraphone Scholarship
$1,000
For full-time vibraphone students enrolled at an accredited college/university. Must be a member of PAS.
Percussive Arts Society
peermusic Latin Scholarship
$5,000
For Songwriters and Composers of Latin music, aged 17-24.
BMI Foundation
Pete Carpenter Fellowship
$3,000 stipend
Funds an annual, competitive residency for aspiring film, television, and video game Composers for an in-studio mentorship with established Composers in Los Angeles.
BMI Foundation
Ruth K. Jacobs Memorial Scholarship
Up to $1500 per year.
Full time students preparing for church music ministry. An applicant must be a junior, senior, or graduate student majoring in music, who holds choral music with children and youth as a primary interest
Choristers Guild
Sinfonia Educational Foundation Scholarships
$500 to $7,500
Must be a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
Sinfonia Educational Foundation
Society of Composers Student Commission Competition
$1,000 to $1,500
For high school, undergraduate, and graduate students enrolled in a composition degree program or studying with a recognized professional composer. (Requirements vary based on age category.)
Society of Composers, Inc.
Sphinx Competition
$3,000 to $50,000
For young Black and Latino string players. Requirements and prize amount vary based on age category.
DTE Energy Foundation
The NFMC Alpha Corinne Mayfield Award
$1,100
Active members of the NFMC. Must be over 20 but under 36. For opera performers.
National Federation of Music Clubs
Theodore Meyer Scholarship
$1000
Undergraduate Music Therapy students who are members of the AMTA
American Music Therapy Association
VSA International Young Soloists Award Program
$2,000
Young musicians under 25 with disabiltiies.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
William R. Gard Memorial Scholarship
$2,000
Full-time college students employed by NAMM member companies
NAMM
YoungArts
Up to $10,000
Must be a performing artist between the ages of 15-18.
National Young Arts Foundation