 |
application
form FOR ALL SUMMER MUSIC CENTERS |
|
Note: The following listings are alphabetical, by the school/camp
name.
The Aspen School of Music
2 Music School Road, Aspen, Colorado 81611
Camp Date: 9 weeks, June-August
Category: Strings
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
Up to 25, as of March 1 |
$600 NFMC
|
February 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
Sarah Mazur, Admissions
Counselor |
| NFMC Representative: |
Barbara
Laybourn |
Brevard Music Center
(Rose Thomas Smith Award)
Box 312, Brevard, North Carolina 28712
Camp Date: 6½ weeks, June-August
Category: Band and Orchestral Instruments
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
14-20 |
$2,000
(Funded by the Rose Thomas Smith Legacy)
|
March 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative (before February 1) |
| NFMC Representative: |
Sara Helen Moore |
The NFMC Lucile Parrish Ward Award
Brevard Music Center
Box 312, Brevard, North Carolina 28712
Camp Date: 6½ weeks, June-August
Category: Piano, Preferably, or Band and Orchestral
Instruments
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
18-24 |
$900 NFMC
(Funded by the Lucile Parrish Ward Endowment)
|
March 1
|
Chautauqua Music School
Box 1098, Chautauqua, New York 14722
Camp Date: 7 weeks, July-August
Category: Piano, Strings, Music School Festival Orchestra Members
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
Violin, no minimum
Others, 14-25 |
Three $500 awards; $400 each given by Penn.,
Ohio, New York FMC plus $100 each funded by Oscar Valentin Endowment
|
April 1
Audition by tape or live, consult Chautauqua |
| Write for
Info: |
Richard Redington, VP in charge of Education
and Planning |
| NFMC Representative: |
Lois
Tamplin |
The NFMC Eleanor Pascoe Award in
Voice
Chautauqua Music School
Box 1098, Chautauqua, New York 14722
Camp Date: 7 weeks, July-August
Category: Voice
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
16-25 |
$400 NFMC
(Funded by the Eleanor Pascoe Endowment.
|
April 1
Audition by tape or live, consult Chautauqua |
| Write for
Info: |
Richard Redington, VP in charge of Education
and Planning |
| NFMC Representative: |
Lois
Tamplin |
Eastern Music Festival
P.O. Box 22026, Greensboro,
NC 27420
Camp Date: 6 weeks, Mid-June to Early August
Category: Orchestral Instruments, Piano
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
14-20
|
$425 NFMC
Matched by Festival
|
March 1
|
Stephen Collins Foster Music Camp
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
40475
(honoring Irene Muir, a past national president)
Camp Date: 4 two-week sessions; 2
one-week sessions
Category: Instruments, Voice, Piano, Guitar
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
Junior and Senior High |
$950 NFMC Award
(2 - $335 Instruments
2 - $335 Voice)
|
May 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
Dr. Joe Allison, School
Director |
| NFMC Representative: |
Amy Jett |
Gladys Comstock Award for Music
Camp
(By the Idaho Federation of Music, for
Camp of recipient's choice)
Camp Date: (consult camp selected)
Category: Instrumental, Voice
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
12-18 |
$500 - 1st Place
$250 - 2nd Place
(Funded by the Idaho Federation)
|
March 1
Audition by tape or CD only
|
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
| NFMC Representative: |
Mary Ann Price |
Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point
Box 127, Eureka Springs, AR 72632
Camp Date: 8 week session
Category: Opera Study & Performance with Orchestra
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
20-35 |
$1,000 Funded by NFMC and $1,000 Funded by the Oscar Valentin Endowment;
$200 supplemental awards from Arkansas FMC, Kansas, FMC, Missouri FMC, Texas
FMC & Oklahoma FMC
|
March 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
| NFMC Representative: |
Lee Meyer
8101 Club Court, Austin, TX 78759 |
Mary Prudie Brown Music Education
Award
(Honoring a past national president)
Inspiration Point Fine Arts Center
Box 127, Eureka Springs, AR 72632
Camp Date: To be awards at the close of IPFAC session
Category: Opera Study
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
20-35 |
$1,000 NFMC
Award to be used for continuing education in the field of music education.
|
No separate application
necessary.
Winner to be selected from those participating in the session
|
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
| NFMC Representative: |
Betty Hall |
Interlochen Arts Camp
Interlochen, Michigan 49643
Camp Date: 8 weeks, July-August
Category: Piano, Voice, Orchestral Instruments
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
Must be in High School |
$700 Award funded by Herman
and Mary Neuman Legacy |
February 15
|
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
| NFMC Representative: |
Hazel
Lawrence |
International Music Camp
Peace Gardens, ND 58318
(Honoring Agnes Jardine, a past national president)
[Dr. Timothy Wollenzein, Camp Director
1930 23rd Avenue SE, Minot, ND 58701]
Camp Date: 8 weeks, June-July
Category: Band, Piano, Guitar, Orchestra, Art,
Dance, Drama
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
Junior High School
Senior High School
and Adult |
$900 NFMC
(Funded by Jardine Endowment)
Awards divided equally among
ten students
|
April 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
NFMC
Representative: |
Lana Simons
1712 13th Street NE, Minot, ND 58701 |
Junior Composers Institute
Camp Date: First full week after July 4
Category:
Composition
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
14 - 18 |
$400
(Funded by the Evelyn Sampson Endowment for a student whose teacher is a
member of the North Dakota Federation of Music Clubs) |
May 10 |
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
| NFMC Representative: |
Gordon
Maier |
Kneisel Hall
P.O.Box 648, Blue Hill, Maine 04614
(Honoring Ada Holding Miller, a past national president)
Camp Date: 7 weeks, June-August
Category: Strings and Piano
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
15-30
|
$1,100 NFMC
|
April 1 |
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
| NFMC Representative: |
Ellen
Werner |
Marrowstone Music Festival
11065 Fifth NE, Suite E, Seattle, WA 97745
[Jonathan Shames, Music Director]
Camp Date: 3 weeks, August
Category: Orchestral (except percussion)
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
13-21
|
$425 NFMC
|
April 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
Seattle Youth Symphony
11065 Fifth NE, Suite E, Seattle, WA 97745 |
| NFMC Representative: |
Amy Chen |
Meadowmount School
1424 County Route 10, Westport, New York 12993
Camp Date: 8 weeks, last of June - early August
Category: Violin, Viola or Cello
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
10-25
|
Two $150 NFMC
Matched by Camp
|
April 30
|
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
| NFMC Representative: |
Owen Carman |
Music Academy of the West
1070 Fairway Road,
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
[Lawrence Leighton Smith, Musical Director]
Camp Date: Last week of June - mid August
Category: Opera Study, Voice Technique
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
Open, expected minimum
age 16 |
$1,200 NFMC
|
February 1
|
Ravinia Festival
Steans Institute for Young Artists
418 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL
60035
Camp Date: 2 Weeks
Category: Jazz
instrumental
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
College Student |
$2,500 FNMC Funded by Rose
Thomas Smith Legacy |
No separate application
necessary - winner selected from those participating in the session |
Rocky Ridge Music Center
465 Long Peaks Road,
Estes Park, Colorado 80517
[Carina Valy, Director]
Camp Date: 5 weeks, June - July
Category: Orchestral Instrumentals
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
Senior High School or College
(Exceptional Jr. High considered)
|
$625 NFMC
|
April 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
| NFMC Representative: |
Mrs. Thomas Marks
625 Whedbee, Ft. Collins, CO 80524-3131 |
Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artists
Program
P.O.Box 2408, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Camp Date: Approximately June 15 - August 30
Category: Voice
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
20-30 |
$525 NFMC
(Funded by Ruth Freehoff Bequest)
|
November 15
|
| Write for
Info: |
Santa Fe Opera
P.O.Box 2408, Santa Fe, NM 87501 |
| NFMC Representative: |
Angelica Plass |
Gladys Coult Summer Award
Sewanee Music Center,
University of the South
735 University Avenue,
Sewanee, TN 37375
Camp Date: 5 Weeks, Late June - Early
August
Category: Instrumentalist
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
High School or College |
$575
(Funded by the Gladys R. Coult Endowment)
|
April 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
Mark Savage, Managing
Director Sewanee Music Festival |
| NFMC Representative: |
Elizabeth Reed |
Faye and John Abild Award
Simpson College
701 North C Street,
Indianola, Iowa 50125
Camp Date: One week in July
Category: Piano
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
14-18 |
2 - $525 NFMC
(Funded by the Faye & John Abild Legacy)
|
May 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
NFMC Representative |
| NFMC Representative: |
Patti
Abild |
The Walden School
PO Box 432, Dublin, OH 03444
Camp Date: 5 weeks, June-July
Category: Composition and Theoretical Skills
| Age Limit |
Award
Amount |
Deadline
for Application |
|
9-18
|
$375 NFMC
|
March 1
|
| Write for
Info: |
Seth Brenzel
31A 29th Sreet, San Francisco, CA 94110 |
| NFMC Representative: |
Esther Landau |
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