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Note: Members of the Student/Collegiate Division should also carefully check NFMC Summer Music Centers Awards, as various age levels are included in Summer Music Center and Camp opportunities.

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The NFMC Gretchen E. Van Roy Music Education Scholarship

Category: Music Education

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
A college junior majoring in Music Education at a college or university which has a Music Education Department offering a degree in same.

None

$1,000
(Funded by the Gretchen E. Van Roy Endowment)

March 1

NFMC Chairman: Rose Suggs

  application form

 

The NFMC Myrtle Mehan/Hazel Morgan Music Education Scholarship 

Category: Music Education

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
A college Sophomore majoring in Music Education at a college or university which has a Music Education Department offering a degree in same.

$5

$750
(Funded by the Myrtle Mehan and Hazel Morgan Legacies)

March 1

NFMC Chairman: Lee Meyer
8101 Club Court Circle, Austin, TX 78759

  application form

 

The NFMC Dorothy Dann Bullock Music Therapy Award (honoring a Past National President)

Category: Music Therapy

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Offered to Music Therapy majors (college sophomores, juniors, seniors) in accredited schools offering Music Therapy degrees approved by the American Music Therapy Association

None

$1,250
for further study (paid to approved school of recipient's choice)

March 1

NFMC Chairman: A. Louis Steele

  application form

 

  Requirements

 

The NFMC Ruth B. Robertson Music Therapy Award 

Category: Music Therapy

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
College juniors or seniors majoring in Music Therapy at schools offering degrees approved by the American Music Therapy Association

None

$400
for further study (paid to approved school of recipient's choice)
Funded by the Ruth B. Robertson Endowment

March 1

NFMC Chairman: A. Louis Steele

  application form

 

  Requirements

 

The Irma Carey Wilson Music Therapy Award

Category: Music Therapy

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
College juniors, seniors, graduate students or graduates in internship in music therapy at schools offering degrees approved by the American Music Therapy Association

None

$400
for further study (paid to approved school of recipient's choice)

March 1

NFMC Chairman: A. Louis Steele

  application form

 

  Requirements

 

The NFMC Hinda Honigman Award for the Blind (honoring a Past National President)

Category: Instrumentalist or Vocalist

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Must have reached the 16th, but not the 26th birthday by March 1, the year of auditions

None

$650 for further study for winner
$350 for further study for runner-up

February 1

NFMC Chairman: Regina Einig

  application form

 

The Music for the Blind Award  

Category: Composition

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Must have reached the 19th, but not the 31st birthday by March 1, the year of auditions

$3 per manuscript

$200
(Funded by the Agnes Fowler Endowment)

March 1

NFMC Chairman: Sharon Booker

  application form

 

The NFMC Herman and Mary Neuman Award

Category: Voice or Strings

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Must be a Sophomore attending Miami University

None

$700 for further study at Miami University, Columbus, Ohio 
(Funded by Neuman Legacy)

March 1

NFMC Chairman: Dr. William Bausano

  application form

 

The NFMC Ernest A Bluhm Flute Award

Category: Flute

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Must have reached the 19th birthday but not the 26th birthday by March 1 of the Audition year

None

$600 funded by Ernest A Bluhm Endowment

March 1

NFMC Chairman: Nancy Harrison

  application form

 

The NFMC Elizabeth Paris French Horn Award

Category: French Horn

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Must have reached the 19th birthday but not the 26th birthday by April 1 of the Audition year

None

$1,400

April 1

NFMC Chairman: A. Robert Johnson

  application form

 

The NFMC Oscar Valentin Award

Category: Violin

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Must have reached the 18th birthday but not the 26th birthday by March 1 of the Audition year

None

$1,000

March 1

NFMC Chairman: Bob Hicks

  application form

 

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