Scholarships -Music

BY NOMINATION ONLY--PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT. An annual scholarship award presented to a young high school senior interested in pursuing a career in the arts.

Fellowships are awarded to artists who finished their basic studies not more than five years before applying to Akademie Schloss Solitude or who are not older than 35. The Schloss Solitude residence Fellowship. It is expected that thThe following artistic disciplines are represented: architecture (architecture design, urban studies, landscape design), visual arts (including performance art and curatorial practice), performing arts (stage design, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting, dance, acting, musical theater, performance), design (visual communications, fashion, costume, product or furniture design), literature (theory/criticism, essay, poetry, fiction, translation), music/sound (sound installation, sound and music composition, sound and music performance), and video/film/new media (including video installation). e guests spend at least two-thirds of the duration of their scholarship in residence at Schloss Solitude.

Grants are awarded to students with moderate to profound hearing loss to participate in upcoming extracurricular activities in the fields of art or science after school, during the summer, or on weekends. Applicants must be enrolled or will be participating in the program selected.

Research grants and educational scholarships. The aim of the Programme is the dissemination of the Hellenic language, culture and history abroad, by creating or reinforcing the ties of friendship and collaboration with the members of the foreign academic communities.

The competition is open to students who are in the final stage of preparing a doctoral dissertation at a university in North America. Although work relating to Brahms should form a significant thread within the dissertation, it need not be the only one, and the Selection Committee welcomes applications from students whose research might be concentrated instead on music by members of the Brahms circle, questions concerning musical life in later 19th-century Vienna, and so forth. Only those projects that demonstrate significant original thought and research will be considered competitive.

The Board of Directors of the American Handel Society invites applications for the 2005 J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship, an award of up to $2,000 to be granted to an advanced graduate student or a scholar in the early stages of his or her career. This fellowship may be used on its own or to augment other grants or fellowships, but may be held no more than twice. The fellowship is intended to support work in the area of Handel or other related studies.

Award for students of any age who have played/studied the harp for a short time.

Award based on musical promise and financial need. Preference given to those pursuing study in the field of music therapy using the harp.

The Gunild Keetman Assistance Fund was established by the American Orff-Schulwerk Association to honor Gunild Keetman for her work in the development of the Schulwerk. The Fund offers financial assistance to members of AOSA who have special creative projects or studies they wish to do related to the Schulwerk. It is reserved for uses and benefits associated with Orff Schulwerk.

Hariette Evans Shields was a teacher of preschool children in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California, where she served families of limited financial resources and diverse racial backgrounds. Mrs. Shields used music as a foundation for fundamental learning skills as well as to create an environment for social awareness and individual creativity. Her program received recognition throughout the City of Los Angeles and the State of California as an example of the positive effect that aesthetic, music-centered learning philosophy has on the development of preschool and kindergarten children, especially those from ethnically diverse and low-income populations. The late Avon Gillespie, master Orff Schulwerk specialist and honorary member of AOSA, established the Shields-Gillespie scholarship in his mother's honor. Administered by the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, the scholarship honors Avon's memory and encourages the continuation of Harriette Evans Shields' philosophy of using music as a foundation for learning in early childhood education.

The ASF's award program for study and research abroad has been the Foundation's most long-standing commitment. During the past 92 years, over 3,500 fellowships and grants have been given to Americans and Scandinavians engaged in educational exchange projects.

The Arleen Auger Memorial Fund was established in 1995 as a living tribute to Arleen Auger to help talented young singers in the course of their studies who document a need for financial assistance.