Music Scholarships are available to all incoming students, regardless of major!
- What's included:
- Financial award of up to $1000-$2000 per year
- Half-price private lessons
- Participation in lessons and ensembles
- How to get one:
- During your sophomore or junior year in high school: meet with and audition for a member of the music faculty. You can schedule an audition on campus or send in a recording.
- During your senior year in high school: in your application to ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø, indicate that you'd like to be considered for a Co-Curricular Scholarship. From there, schedule an on-campus audition or submit a recording within 30 days of completing your ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø application. Your acceptance to ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø and notification of scholarship offers will be sent to you once your audition is complete.
- Renewing your scholarship: Music Scholarships will renew yearly for ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø students as long as the student is actively enrolled in the appropriate music ensemble for their instrument and private lessons on that instrument every semester. Some students at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø pursue study abroad for a semester or a year; in this case, those students' music scholarships would continue assuming they resume their involvement in lessons & ensembles upon their return to campus. See below for a list of eligible scholarship instruments and their associated ensembles.
- Other scholarships: Music Scholarships may be awarded in combination with most other ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø scholarships.
Consult with your admissions counselor or email one of the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø music faculty to learn more.
Audition Requirements
Strings
Instruments: violin, viola, cello, string bass, harp
Major Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra
- 2 contrasting prepared excerpts/pieces: one legato, lyric, and expressive; one technical and staccato
- Sight reading
Voice
All vocal ranges/voice parts welcome
Major Ensemble: Choir
- 2 contrasting songs
- Students should prepare solo vocal pieces, not isolated voice parts from a piece of choral music
- Examples of contrasting works could be: pieces in two languages, one piece of classical music/art song & one piece of musical theatre, pieces from two different time periods
- An accompanist will be provided (we would prefer to hear you sing with a live pianist rather than a pre-recorded accompaniment)
- Please bring at 2 photocopies of each song, plus one for yourself if needed
- Memorization of your songs is encouraged but not required
- Sight reading
Woodwinds and Brass
Instruments: bassoon, clarinet, euphonium/baritone, flute, horn, oboe, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, tuba
Major Ensemble: Wind Ensemble
- 2 contrasting prepared excerpts/pieces: one slow, lyric, and expressive; one fast and technical
- Sight reading
Percussion
Instruments: standard concert band percussion instruments, including snare drum, mallets, and timpani
Major Ensemble: Wind Ensemble
- 3 prepared excerpts/pieces: snare, mallets, and timpani
- Sight reading
Piano
Major Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra, Choir, or Wind Ensemble, to be determined by ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø piano professors in conjunction with the ensemble directors
- 2 contrasting prepared pieces
- The pieces do NOT need to be performed from memory.