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Summer Music Centers

Camps/Workshops/Institutes/Scholarships

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

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

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

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

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

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

Opera
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

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

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

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

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

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

Orchestral (Except percussion)
Marrowstone Music Festival

Age Limit      Entry Fee  Award Amount  Deadline for Application

13-21                                    $500                        Contact Center

NFMC Representative: Dan Schmitt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Kids Huddle

American Music Month

National Music Week

NFMC/TFMC Festivals

TFMC All State Festival

Junior Composers

Dance

Summer Camps

Opera in the Ozarks/Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony

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