Music Scholarships

Each year, the Music Department participates in Visual and Performing Arts Scholarship Day to allow prospective students the opportunity to compete for the various financial awards offered by the division. While music majors are encouraged to audition, students are not required to major to compete for or receive a Visual and Performing Arts Scholarship.

Visual and Performing Arts Scholarships are awarded on the basis of an audition and an interview.

Singers are expected to sing at least two songs from memory in contrasting style.
Pianists are expected to play from memory two pieces of at least the difficulty of the Bach Inventions or the sonatas of Haydn or Mozart.
Organists are expected to play one of the easier Bach preludes and fugues or works of comparable difficulty. Organists are also expected to show competence on the piano.
Instrumentalists should play two pieces or etudes in contrasting styles.

Students accepting scholarships perform in a major ensemble and enroll in applied study appropriate to their instrument for each term they accept the awards. More information and registration forms can be found here.

For more information please contact Dr. Lester Seigel, Music Department Chair, at (205) 226-4957or [email protected].

Hilltop Singers Scholarship

Members in this distinctive vocal ensemble, an unaccompanied chamber group, receive a scholarship for participation. The Hilltop Singers are also registered and participate in the Concert Choir. Audition for this ensemble is required. Contact Dr. Lester Seigel at [email protected] for audition information.

Honors Day Awards

Pi Kappa Lambda membership, various cash awards, and outstanding student accomplishments are recognized at the end of each academic year during the Spring Honors Day Program. The music faculty determines the awards based on academic achievement, leadership, exceptional performing, and remarkable scholarship by BSC students.