Summer Music Study Scholarships may be used to pay for a music camp, master class, workshop, institute, special lessons, or coaching separate from (and in addition to) study with the teacher of current enrollment.  The scholarships (listed below) will be granted according to their specific purposes.

Basis of Awards:

The student will be judged on the quality of his/her performance (50%), sight reading ability (20%), and completed interview and essay form (30%).

Eligibility:

Applicants must have studied in the performance medium of the audition with their current teacher for at least six of the nine months immediately preceding the auditions.  2011 winners are ineligible to apply in the year 2012, with the exception of those applying for the Graduating Senior Award for rising music majors.  The auditions are open to students of OhioMTA members and non-members.  However, students of non-member teachers are required to reside within the Central East District.

Divisions and Requirements:

Elementary  (ages 9 to 11) – 3 to 6 minutes

Junior High (ages 12 to 14) – 6 to 10 minutes

Senior High (ages 15 +) – 10 to 20 minutes

There are no collegiate level scholarships.

NOTE:  Actual audition length permitted will depend on the total number of applicants.

 Repertoire Requirements:

Two or three selections from different compositional eras should be prepared.  Pianists and vocalists must perform from memory.  Memorization is optional for all other instrumentalists.  Performance of prepared selections will be followed by sight-reading.

 Scholarship Auditions

Date:               Saturday, March 24, 2012

Time:               Audition times will be individually assigned.

Location:         The First Congregational Church  (444 East Broad Street, Columbus)

Deadline:         February 24, 2012 (postmark)

Fee:                 $10.00 for students of members/$40.00 for students of non-members

Checks should be made payable to OhioMTA and must be submitted with the application.  Registration fees are non-refundable.

 

AWARDS

Donor                                     Amount         No.      Purpose

 

Music-Go-Round                    $150.00          1          trumpet or piano study

The Loft Violin Shop              $150.00          2          bowed string instrument study

Columbus Piano Leasing        $100.00          1          piano study

Piano Warehouse                    $100.00          1          piano study

OhioMTA Memorial Award* $300.00           1          piano study

   (in memory of George Haddad)

OhioMTA**                           $200.00          2          any instrument

OhioMTA                               $200.00          2          piano study

Ohio MTA                              $200.00          2          any instrument

OhioMTA                               $200.00          2          bowed string instrument study

OhioMTA Graduating Senior $500.00          1          college tuition for music majors

 

**These two scholarships were made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor.

 

*OhioMTA is proud to honor its members through the Memorial Scholarships awarded in this program. Some members who have been recognized in the past are Marshall Barnes, Linda Cook, Dorothy Larmee, Izabella Lechowska, Grace Nichola, Joan Parkerson, James Somerville, Michael Davis, Roger Jamison,  Allie Jensen, and Ruth Rieppel.  If you are interested in endowing these or other scholarships, please contact Susan Treer at (614) 882-8064.

 Please click below to access the application:

Scholarship Application Form 2012

Scholarship Rules and Regulations:

1. These awards are open to students of OhioMTA members and non-members.
2. Previous recipients of OhioMTA Summer Scholarships are not eligible to audition the year following their award, with the exception of future music majors auditioning for the Graduating Senior Award.
3. All students will perform in person on the day of the auditions.  No recorded auditions or deferred auditions are possible.
4. Students will be notified of the results by mail within seven days.
5. Participants will receive comment sheets from the judges via mail.
6. Award money must be used during the summer of the year in which it is awarded and cannot be deferred to the fall (with the exception of the Graduating Senior Award) or to another year.
7. Payment of the awards will be made directly to the institution sponsoring the camp, workshop, etc.  Winners must contact the scholarship chairman in writing by June 30^,th  (via mail or email) regarding the direction of funds.
8. Accompaniment for non-piano auditions is recommended, but not required. An accompanist may not be the student’s teacher or a family member.
9. Auditions are closed.  To assure anonymity, teachers may not assist students in any manner, nor identify themselves to the judges.  Instrumentalists are expected to tune their own instruments.
10. A teacher may enter no more than three students.
11. A student may compete on more than one instrument, but cannot win more than one scholarship.
12. Scholarship awards may not financially benefit the student’s teacher or relatives of the student’s teacher.
13. NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. 
14. NO INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

 

 

Chairman/Registrar                                         Co-Chairman:

Meredith Needham                                         Karen Hittepole

815 Burg Street                                               karenhitt@att.net

Granville, OH  43023-1079

(740) 587-3435

pianohag@hotmail.com

 

 Honors Recital:

Scholarship recipients are invited to perform at the OhioMTA HONORS RECITAL on Sunday, April 29, 2012, at Graves Piano & Organ Company.  Teachers need to contact the chair of the Recitals program, Dr. Caroline B. Salido, to enroll their students in the Honors Recital.  See Recitals – Student Solo and Ensemble at http://www.ceomta.com/student-events/recitals-solo-ensemble for details.