The Knowledge Exchange Institute, hosted by Griffith College, in Dublin, Ireland, offers year-round programs of multiple lengths, for credit, to high school and college students with a 2.50 GPA.
Program Manager
Knowledge Exchange Institute
111 John St., Suite 800
New York, NY 10038
212-931-9953
keiabroad.org
The Arizona State University School of music administers three choral music scholarships. The George Umberson Choral Scholarship is for an undergraduate choral music education major with outstanding promise as choral teacher/conductor and a minimum 3.0 GPA in his major. The Jennison Choral Music Award is for an entering full-time undergraduate student participating in choral ensemble with a minimum 2.75 high school GPA. The school also offers a Choral Music Scholarship for a choral major selected by a faculty member. Applicants can download the Herberger Institute Scholarship Application form (see resources).
Theresa Cox
Arizona State University School of Music
Box 870405
Tempe, AZ 85287-0405
480-965-2815
music.asu.edu
The Choral Arts Foundation of the Upper Valley in Vermont offers grants that, as of 2010, typically range from $250 to $1,000. Recipients must use the grant within a year. Applicants must email a digital copy of the completed application form and a detailed budget. The foundation also requires a printed copy with original signature.
The Choral Arts Foundation of the Upper Valley
PO Box 716
Hanover, NH 03755
choralartsuv.org
The Mayflower Choral Society Scholarship Fund, based in Northern California, accepts applications once each year for three to four grants given in three general categories. As of 2010, grants are at a minimum of $250. The grant categories are vocal performance, arrangement/composition and choral direction.
Gretchen Klein, Chairperson
Scholarship Selection Committee
4460-16 Redwood Highway, PMB 414
San Rafael, CA 94903
415-491-9110
mayflowerchorus.org
Established in 1996, the F. Melius Christiansen Endowment Fund of the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota champions and fosters the choral art in Minnesota. The fund offers scholarships in four categories to conductors studying at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as conductors actively leading church, synagogue, school and community choirs.
Bruce W. Becker, ACDA-MN Executive Director
F. Melius Christiansen Endowment Fund
12027 Gantry Lane
Apple Valley, MN 55124-6286
fmcendowment.org
As of 2010, the College of St. Joseph in Vermont offers scholarships of $250 to $1,000 to incoming full time freshmen, transfer students or returning CSJ choral students based on the recommendation of the College choral director. The college awards scholarships based on merit, satisfactory academic performance, good citizenship and choral need. New students must submit a letter of evaluation from their current choral director. The college may renew these scholarships annually.
College of St. Joseph
71 Clement Road
Rutland, Vermont 05701
802-773-5900
csj.edu
The Jeffrey Arnold Foundation offers the grant in memory of Helen Shaw Hannes, Texas businesswoman, piano teacher and organist of Martin Luther Lutheran Church in Giddings, Texas for 40 years. This full-tuition study grant is awarded for one academic year to students actively engaged in sacred music as an organist, choir director, minister of music, minister, pastor, priest, rabbi, section leader, soloist or cantor for a church, synagogue or religious order. Recipients may renew the grant once by application/review.
The Jeffrey Arnold Foundation
1552 Heyser Road
Gatesville, Texas 76528
254-248-2329
jeffreyarnoldfoundation.org