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OFMC Foundation for the Advancement of Music
- Chair: Linda McCarthy
Budget Chair: Jason Volovar
Vice Chair: Christy Smith
Secretary:
Treasurer: David Roepke
Ex-Officio: Ron Marenchin
Trustees:- Christy Smith (2020-2023)
- Donna Gerber (2021 – 2021)
- PURPOSE. The purpose of the Foundation for the Advancement of Music is to:
- encourage the composition and performance of music
- aid performing and creative artists, regardless of citizenship
- promote musical education
- aid veterans in commencing and resuming musical careers
- grant scholarships to carry out the above
TO ACCESS THE APPLICATION AND THE RULES OF A COMPETITION, CLICK ON THE WORD APPLICATION OR APPLICATION AND RULES UNDER THE APPROPRIATE AWARD.
JUNIOR DIVISION (18 YEARS AND UNDER)
- Stillman Kelley & Thelma Byrum Award
- $100.00 Award to the state winner
- (See NFMC website for Award Amounts, Rules, Forms & details)
- Applicants must first enter on the State Level (OFMC)
- Applicant must not have reached 19th birthday by March 1st
- Application Deadline: February 1st
- Donna Gerber, OFMC Chariman
- 14249 Sperry Road, Newbury, Ohio 44065
- Phone: (440)338-8187
- Email: minydur@twc.com
- Disinger Summer Marching Band Camp Scholarship
- $200 Award
- Grades 10 – 12, applicant must be a participant in a High School marching band, but need not be a member of OFMC
- Application (Rules). Deadline May 1st.
- Chair: Dennis Wein
721 Honeysuckle Drive, Greenville, OH 45331Phone number: 937-548-1435
- Email: dwein@woh.rr.com
- Donald Babcock Junior Composers Awards
- $1000 total awards
- 1st State: $200, 2nd State: $150, 3rd State: $125
- Junior Class I: 1st: $60, 2nd: $40
- Junior Class II: 1st: $75, 2nd: $50
- Junior Class III: 1st: $75, 2nd: $50
- Junior Class IV: 1st: $100, 2nd: $75
- 2024 JR-7-1 Rules Deadline: January 15
- 2024 OHIO Junior Composer Directives
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Chairman: Stephanie Cheng
- Summer Music Camp Award
- $4,900 total awards
- 3-Year Festival Unanimous Superior Winners @ $350 each
- Grades 6-12, Moderately Difficult level or above for piano and Medium level or above for strings
- 2023 Summer-Scholarship-Application Deadline: May 15
- OFMC summer music camps D1234 – 2023
- Chairman: Karen Hunt, 245 Idlewood Road, Youngstown, OH 44515-2831
- Phone: (330)707-4022
- Email: kihunt48@gmail.com
- Elizabeth Gerber Award
- $300 total awards
- 1st: $150, 2nd: $100, 3rd: (awarded by Camerata Music Club) $75
- Pre-7th grade, Festival 5 or more consecutive year Superior Winners
- OFMC Gerber Award rules & application 2023 Deadline: September 1, 2023
- Competition is October 14, 2023, at Church of the Messiah, 51 N. State Street, Westerville, OH 43081
- Chairman: Linda Rinderknecht, 1120 Edgewood Drive, Upper Sandusky, OH 43351-9008
- Phone: (419) 310-1198
- Email: rinderknechtlinda@gmail.com
- 3rd Place Award given by Camerata Music Club
- Marilyn Walter Young Musicians Award
- $600 total awards including 1st $200, 2nd $165, 3rd $135, 4th $100
- Grades 7-9, Festival 5 or more consecutive year Superior Winners
- OFMC Walter Competition rules & application 2023 Deadline: September 1, 2023
- Competition is October 14, 2023, at Church of the Messiah, 51 N. State Street, Westerville, OH 43081
- Chairman: Linda Rinderknecht, 1120 Edgewood Dr., Upper Sandusky, OH 43351-9008
- Phone: (419) 310-1198
- Email: rinderknechtlinda@gmail.com
- Charlotte & W. Alfred Gray Competition
- $750 total awards including 1st $250, 2nd $200, 3rd $150, 4th $100, 5th $50
- Grades 10-12, Festival 5 or more consecutive year Superior Winners
- OFMC Gray Competition rules & application 2023 Deadline: September 1, 2023
- Competition is October 14, 2023, at Church of the Messiah, 51 N. State Street, Westerville, OH 43081
- Chairman: Linda Rinderknecht, 1120 Edgewood Drive, Upper Sandusky, OH 43351
- Phone: (419) 310-1198
- Email: rinderknechtlinda@gmail.com
- Venetia Hall Piano Concerto Award
- $1,400 total awards (1st $700, 2nd $500, *3rd $200)
- Application Deadline: March 30
- Rules
- Auditions: Graves Pianos and Organs, 5798 Karl Road, Columbus, OH, on Saturday, April 18, 2020
- Chairman: Marie Nichols, 9775 Hidden Springs, Hopewell, OH 43746
- Phone: (740) 787-9846
- Email: nmusiccenter@mail.com
- *3rd Place Award given by Saturday Music Club, Columbus, OH
- Elsie Stupp Grand Cup Award
- Application Deadline: April 15
- $400 total awards ($100 award to a grand or president’s cup recipient who achieved 12 years of consecutive superiors in the same event
- Chairman: Judy Bede, 2651 Penewit Road, Spring Valley ,OH 45370-8777
- Phone: (937) 848-8045
- Email: jmusic122@gmail.com
COLLEGIATE DIVISION (19-26 years)
For students in colleges and universities affiliated with OFMC
- NFMC STUDENT COLLEGIATE AUDITIONS
- $3000.00 award by NFMC in each category which includes all instruments and voices.
- Requirements, Application Forms and detailed information can be found on the NFMC website at www.nfmc-music.org under Biennial Student/Collegiate Competitions & Awards
- $150 to the state winner.
- OFMC Chairman: Tianshu Wang
- 7234 Optimara Drive, Pickerington, OH 43147
- Phone: (614) 531-2484
- Email: twang@capital.edu
- Dance Award (For OFMC member University and College Departments)
- $1,200 award
- Application Deadline: April 15
- Chairman: Mark Koehler, 1231 King Road, Ashland OH 44805-3634
- Phone: 419-281-8948
- Email: mrmark@zoominternet.net
- R. Keith Newton Music Education Essay Award
- $1000 total awards, 1st $600, 2nd $400.
- Application and Essay Deadline: March 1
- Chairman:Wanda Stubbart, 2002 Brimfield Court, Columbus, OH 43229-3814
- Phone: (614) 885-0987
- Email: wanda.stubbart@gmail.com
- Music Therapy Scholarships
- (Recipients not eligible two consecutive years)
- $1200 award at each school
- Application Deadline: April 1
- Rules
- Chairman: Ronna Kaplan, Chair, Center for Music Therapy
- Phone: (216) 410-5162
- Email: rskaplan1@gmail.com
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- Baldwin Wallace University (Sophie Albrecht Scholarship)
College of Wooster
Contact for both: Lalene Kay, Director, Music Therapy Consortium
Baldwin Wallace University, 275 Eastland Road, Berea ,OH 44017
Phone: (440) 826-3176
Email: lkay@bw.edu - University of Dayton
Contact: Dr. James Hiller
Therapy Program
School of Music, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0001
Email: jhiller1@udayton.edu - Ohio University (Thelma A. Robinson Scholarship)
Contact: Kamile Geist, Music Therapy Program Coordinator
School of Music, Robert Glidden Hall, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701-2979
Phone: (740) 593-4249
Email: geistk@ohio.edu - Cleveland State University
Contact: Deborah L. Layman, Assistant Professor, Music Therapy
Music and Communications Building, Room 357
2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115
Phone: 216-802-3343
Email: d.l.layman@csuohio.edu
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- Music Therapy Internship (beginning in the 2017 – 2018 school year)
- Application Deadline: April 1
- $600 award to one intern from each of the five Ohio colleges/universities
offering music therapy degree programs: Baldwin Wallace, College of
Wooster. Ohio University, University of Dayton and Cleveland State
University - Two additional $600 awards to interns attending the Music Settlement for the 2018-2019 school year. The Music Settlement, 11125 Magnolia Drive, Cleveland, OH 44106-1813.
- Chairman: Ronna Kaplan, Clinical Supervisor/Adjunct Music Therapy Faculty, Cleveland State University
- Phone: (216) 410-5162
- Email: rskaplan1@gmail.com
- $600 award to one intern from each of the five Ohio colleges/universities
- Collegiate Composers Contest
- $2,000 total awards (1st $1200, 2nd $800)
- Application & Rules and Composition Deadline March 1
- Chairman: Sally Christman, 1965 Loma Linda Lane, Dayton, OH 45459
- Phone: (937) 434-7407
- E-mail: kscdchristman@aol.com
- Marjorie Neville Collaborative Piano Award (Accompanying)
- $1,000 award for winning accompanist and $200 for soloist
- Application Deadline: February 20
- Competition will be held at Capital University, Columbus, OH
- Chairman: Dr. Fan Zhang, 1 College and Main Streets, Capital University, Columbus OH 43209
- Phone: (812) 274-4777
- Email: fzhang@capital.edu
- The Winifred Collins Music Education Scholarship ($1,400)
The Gertrude Seiberling Music Education Scholarship ($1,400)- Both awarded by the Tuesday Musical Association, Akron, Ohio
- Application: all information is to be submitted online between January 1 and February 1
- Chairman: George Pope, 518 Dorchester Rd., Akron, OH 43220-1923
- Phone: (330) 869-9113
- Email: gspope@uakron.edu
- Helen Curtis Webster Award ($1,400)
- Administered by Cleveland Institute of Music
- Chairman: Donna Gerber, 14249 Sperry Road, Newbury, OH 44065-9714
- Phone: (440) 338-8187
- Email: minydur@twc.com
- Agnes Fowler Scholarships (Selected by the College/University) Awards Total 17 awards total $23,800
- A $1,400 scholarship to a student in an OFMC affiliated school majoring in music, preferably strong in performance and proficient on at least one instrument or in voice.
- The school shall choose the recipient by the January 15 deadline.
- Here are the Rules and the Application Form to be completed by the recipient and returned to:
David Roepke, 1130 East Main Street #160
Ashland, OH 44805
Phone: 567-203-3231
E-mail: Opera@bright.net- The student receiving the scholarship should be willing to perform once at a State Convention, a District Conference in NE, SE, SW or NW Ohio, or a local music club meeting.
- The colleges eligible to receive the scholarship would include all those affiliated schools not already receiving other automatic awards in Music Therapy or for PhD. Candidates.
| Ashland University | Miami University | University of Akron |
| Bowling Green State University | Oberlin Conservatory of Music | University of Mount Union |
| Music Conservatory of Capital University | Ohio Northern University | Wright State University |
| Heidelberg University | Ohio Wesleyan University | Youngstown State University |
| Kent State University | Otterbein University | Malone University |
| Wittenberg University |
- Accompanists for Agnes Fowler winners performances at District Conferences ( $175 ea / 4 districts) $700
- Accompanists for Agnes Fowler winners performances at State Convention ($175 ea / 2 per convention) $350.00
- Ohio Chautauqua Scholarship $600
- For information, write to:
- Sarah Malinoski-Umberger, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY 14722
- Phone: (716)-357-6217 Email: smalinoski@ciweb.org
- Award for Master’s Degree in Music/Music Education at any member University in Ohio ($1500) (Application & Rules)
- Award for Ph.D in Music or DMA at The Ohio State University ($1500)
- Award for Ph.D in Music or DMA at The University of Cincinnati ($1500)
- Deadline: May 15
- Chairman: Dr. Margarita Denenburg, 3626 Turfside Circle, Huron, OH 44839
- Phone: (480) 529-1732 Email: mdenenbu@heidelberg.edu
Note: First place winners may not compete in the same category in the following year.
SENIOR DIVISION (Age 26 and over)
- Adult Composers Competition $2000 total awards (1st $900, 2nd $700, 3rd $400)
- Application Deadline: January 15
- Competition Rules
- Chairman: Sally Christman, 1965 Loma Linda Lane, Dayton, OH 45459
- Phone: (937) 434-7407 Email: kscdchristman@aol.com
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- Applications and rules are available from the chairman of each competition.
- Awards are given based on the final decision of the judges.
- Applications are also available for National Competitions and Awards on the National Federation of Music Clubs Website; www.nfmc-music.org
