About The Arizona Musicfest Scholarship

Since 2011, Arizona Musicfest has awarded over $170,000 to Arizona students pursuing college degrees in music through the Arizona Musicfest Scholarship Program.

This year’s award amount is $3,500; renewable annually for up to four years of the award recipient’s collegiate education.

Arizona Musicfest Scholars are students and alumni of the following distinguished institutions: The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, The Cleveland Institute of Music, San Fransisco Conservatory, USC’s Thornton School of Music, Colburn Conservatory, Biola University, Arizona State University, The Eastman School of Music, Vanderbilt University, and Curtis Institute of Music, and other fine institutions.

Each year, Musicfest awards an initial scholarships to graduating high school seniors, as well as renewing scholarships to past winners currently enrolled and excelling in their collegiate academic and music studies.  Scholarship recipients are eligible to receive four years of Musicfest funding to aid in their pursuit of an undergraduate music degree.

As a non-profit performing arts organization, Arizona Musicfest is unique among its industry colleagues in providing this type of on-going financial support to college-level musicians.

To adjudicate the scholarship process, both for new applicants and renewing candidates, Arizona Musicfest annually assembles a distinguished review panel of professional musicians and educators to review each candidate’s application, performance videos, academic record, musical accomplishments, professional references, and written essays.

Through our patrons’ generous support of the Arizona Musicfest Scholarship Fund, Arizona Musicfest provides some of the Valley’s most accomplished and deserving Young Musicians with not only valuable financial aid, but also with a community of enthusiastic fans who stand behind these aspiring young musicians and help them to realize their dreams.