Note: All summer award applicants must apply to the center before being considered for the awards below.

Chairman: Mary Ellen Nolletti, 104 County Road 537, Etowah, TN 37331

 

SUMMER MUSIC CENTERS

 

Band and Orchestral Instruments

 

Brevard Music Center

 

Rose Thomas Smith Award

Box 312, Brevard, North Carolina 28712

 

Age Limit    Entry Fee  Award Amount  Deadline for Application

14-20                                  $2,000                    Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Sara Helen Moore

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Composition and Theory

The Walden School

PO Box 432, Dublin, NH 03444

Age Limit    Entry Fee  Award Amount  Deadline for Application

9-18                                     $500                       Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Jonathan Thomas

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Composition Summer Music Centers

Junior Composers Summer Programs

 

Sampson Award

 

Age Limit     Entry Fee  Award Amount  Deadline for Application

14 - 19                                 $500                       Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Pat Grantier

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Instrumental, Voice, Piano and Guitar

Stephen Collins Foster Music Camp

 

Irene Muir Award, honoring a past national president

Richmond, KY

 

Age Limit                            Entry Fee  Award Amount     Deadline for Application

Junior and Senior High                      4 - $175 Awards   Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Sue Ann Reeves

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Instruments or Voice

Gwladys Comstock Award for Music Camp

(By the Idaho Federation of Music, for Camp of recipient's choice)

Age Limit      Entry Fee  Award Amount   Deadline for Application

12-18                                    $500                        Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Connie Hutchens

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Jazz instrumental

Ravinia Festival

 

Steans Institute for Young Artists 
418 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035

Age Limit                Entry Fee  Award Amount  Deadline for Application

College Student                       $2,700                     Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Terry Tennes

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Opera

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Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point Fine Arts Center

 

Martha Marcks Mack Award

Eureka Springs, AR

 

Age Limit    Entry Fee   Award Amount         Deadline for Application

18- 35                                  2 - $2,125 Awards   Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Carla Johnson

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Santa Fe Opera

 

Ruth Freehoff Award

P.O.Box 2408, Santa Fe, NM 87501

 

Age Limit      Entry Fee  Award Amount  Deadline for Application

20-30                                    $400                        Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Angelica Plass

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Music Academy of the West

1070 Fairway Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 
Lawrence Leighton Smith, Musical Director

Age Limit     Entry Fee   Award Amount   Deadline for Application

Open                                    $1,000                      Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Sarah Rowe Stretz

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Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point Fine Arts Center

16311 Highway 62 West, Eureka Springs, AR 72632

Age Limit      Entry Fee         Award Amount                                                                  Deadline for Application

18-35                                           $3,000 Award will be paid directly to IPFAC       Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Lee Meyer

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Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point Fine Arts Center

 

Mary Prudie Brown Music Education Award, honoring a past national president

16311 Highway 62 West, Eureka Springs, AR 72632

 

Age Limit     Entry Fee   Award Amount                                                                                    Deadline for Application

18-35                                    $1,300; Paid to approved school of recipient's choice    Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Jean Moffatt

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Orchestra, Piano & Chamber Music

Sewanne Music Festival, University of the South

 

Gladys Coult Award

735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383

 

Age Limit                                                                        Entry Fee  Award Amount   Deadline for Application

High School or College (minimum age of 12)                     $400                         Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Mary Ellen Nolletti

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Orchestral (Except percussion)

Marrowstone Music Festival

Age Limit      Entry Fee  Award Amount  Deadline for Application

13-21                                    $500                        Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Dan Schmitt

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Orchestral Instrumentals

Rocky Ridge Music Center

465 Long Peaks Road, Estes Park, Colorado 80517 
Carina Valy, Director

Age Limit                                                  Entry Fee   Award Amount     Deadline for Application

Senior High School or College

(Exceptional Jr. High considered)                      $500                           Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Karen Greenhalgh

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Orchestral Instruments, Piano

Eastern Music Festival

P.O. Box 22026, Greensboro, NC 27420

Age Limit    Entry Fee    Award Amount    Deadline for Application

14-20                                    $500                         Contact Center

NFMC Representative: William P. Carroll

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Orchestral Woodwinds, Brass or Percussion

International Music Camp

 

Honoring Agnes Jardine, a past national president

10834 Peace Gardens Dr, Dunseith, ND 58329 , Tim & Christine Baumann, Camp Directors 

 

Age Limit                                                             Entry Fee    Award Amount    Deadline for Application

Junior High School/Senior High School                         Six - $175              Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Deborah Eraas

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Piano and Strings

Chautauqua Music School

Box 1098, Chautauqua, NY 14722

Age Limit      Entry Fee   Award Amount          Deadline for Application

18-25                                     3 - $500 Awards        Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Ruth Ann McChesney

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Piano preferably or Band and Orchestral Instruments

Brevard Music Center

 

The NFMC Lucile Parrish Ward Award

Box 312, Brevard, North Carolina 28712

 

Age Limit      Entry Fee     Award Amount     Deadline for Application

18-24                                       $600                           Contact Center

NFMC Representative:  Dale Clark

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Piano, Voice, Orchestral Instruments

Interlochen Arts Camp

 

Neumann Award

Interlochen, Michigan 49643

 

Age Limit                            Entry Fee     Award Amount        Deadline for Application

Must be in High School                         $850 Award               Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Hazel Lawrence

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Strings

Aspen School of Music

2 Music School Road, Aspen, Colorado 81611

Age Limit    Entry Fee     Award Amount     Deadline for Application

Up to 25                                $500                          Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Linda King

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Strings and Piano

Kneisel Hall

 

Honoring Ada Holding Miller, a past national president

P.O.Box 648, Blue Hill, Maine 04614 

 

Age Limit      Entry Fee       Award Amount      Deadline for Application

15-30                                         $800                            Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Ellen Werner

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Violin, Viola or Cello

Meadowmount School

 

Suzanne Anderson Award

1424 County Route 10, Westport, New York 12993

 

Age Limit      Entry Fee     Award Amount      Deadline for Application

10-18                                       $500                            Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Mary McGowan

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Voice

Chautauqua Music School

 

Eleanor Pascoe Award

Box 1098, Chautauqua, New York 14722

 

Age Limit     Entry Fee      Award Amount     Deadline for Application

16-25                                       $300                           Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Ruth Ann McChesney

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Chautauqua Music School

 

Martha Marcks Mack Award

Box 1098, Chautauqua, New York 14722

 

Age Limit      Entry Fee     Award Amount           Deadline for Application

18 - 25                                     2 - $2,250 Awards     Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Ruthann McChesney