The National Symphony Orchestra National Trustees

Summer Institute Scholarship Award

July 2-30, 2012

at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute is a 4-week summer music program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, for student instrumentalists. The program is designed for serious music students. Each student accepted into the Program attends on full scholarship, which includes the following benefits: housing, food allowance, and local transportation during their stay in our Nation's Capital. (Round-trip transportation to and from Washington, DC. is not included.)

Eligibility

The program is open, by recorded audition, to students ages 15-20 (as of June 2012) who are seriously considering orchestral music as a career and willing to devote themselves to a musical education. National Trustees’ fellowships may be awarded to students who play any of the following: violin, viola, cello, string bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, and harp (not eligible: guitar, saxophone, percussion, and piano).

To Apply New This Year! - Online Applications for students ages 15-20  are due by Jan 27, 2012.

All applicants will submit their applications online via ArtsApp.com (including solo and excerpts recordings) through www.kennedy-center.org/smi.  ArtsApp is an independent company and is not affiliated with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. There is a charge of $10 to use the ArtsApp site, which is a registration fee for the site itself and is collected through PayPal. Please contact Carole Wysocki, NSO Director of Education, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for further information if you are unable to complete the online application process for any reason.

Click here to see a flyer with more information!

IMPORTANT

*Once you have submitted your application through ArtsApp please email Leilani Esping, OAAE assistant at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , to confirm application.*

OAAE Mailing Address

PO Box 2826
Salem, OR 97308
(503) 399-1778

The Oregon Alliance for Arts Education is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, the John F. Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network and the Oregon Department of Education.