Congratulations to Anderson Rambler, of Akron, Ohio for winning the second place $1000 award in the NFMC Martha Marcks Mack Junior Vocal Award Competition! Anderson is a student of Denise Milner Howell, [email protected], adjunct professor of voice at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is a Junior in HS and loves to perform. Please let your area clubs know about Anderson and reach out to congratulate him!
Congratulations to our 2024 Donald Babcock Junior Composers. The digital booklet is available here, listing our winners and their compositions.
OFMC Foundation for the Advancement of Music
- Chair: Ron Marenchin
Budget Chair: Jason Volovar
Vice Chair: Christy Smith
Secretary:
Treasurer: David Roepke
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
The board has met, and revisions are coming soon.
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: [email protected]
- 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: [email protected]
- 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
- 2025 JR-7-1 Rules Deadline: February 1
- 2025 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: [email protected]
- Elizabeth Gerber Award
- $300 total awards
- 1st: $150, 2nd: $100, 3rd: (awarded by Camerata Music Club) $75
- Up to 6th grade, Festival 5 or more consecutive year Superior Winners
- OFMC Gerber Award rules & application 2024 Deadline: September 1, 2024
- Competition is October 19, 2024, at Graves Piano & Organ Co. 5798 Karl Rd. Columbus, OH 43229
- Chairman: Stephanie Webster-Cheng; 2329 Eastcleft Dr. Columbus, OH 43221
- Phone: (614) 354-7389
- Email: [email protected]
- 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 2024 Deadline: September 1, 2024
- Competition is October 19, 2024, at Graves Piano & Organ Co. 5798 Karl Rd. Columbus, OH 43229
- Chairman: Stephanie Webster-Cheng; 2329 Eastcleft Dr. Columbus, OH 43221
- Phone: (614) 354-7389
- Email: [email protected]
- 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 2024 Deadline: September 1, 2023
- Competition is October 19, 2024, at Graves Piano & Organ Co. 5798 Karl Rd. Columbus, OH 43229
- Chairman: Stephanie Webster-Cheng; 2329 Eastcleft Dr. Columbus, OH 43221
- Phone: (614) 354-7389
- Email: [email protected]
- 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: [email protected]
- *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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
- 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: [email protected]
- R. Keith Newton Music Education Essay Award
- $1000 total awards, 1st $600, 2nd $400.
- Application and Essay Deadline: March 1
- Chairman: Christy Smith, 825 Olde Farm Ct., Vandalia, OH 45377-1859
- Phone: (937) 280-4501
- Email: [email protected]
- 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: [email protected]
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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: [email protected] - University of Dayton
Contact: Dr. James Hiller
Therapy Program
School of Music, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0001
Email: [email protected] - 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: [email protected] - 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: [email protected]
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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: [email protected]
- $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: [email protected]
- 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: [email protected]
- 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: [email protected]
- Helen Curtis Webster Award ($1,400)
- Administered by Cleveland Institute of Music
- Chairman: Donna Gerber, 8820 Oak Glen Drive, Chardon, Ohio 44024
- Phone: (440) 901-4031
- Email: [email protected]
- 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: [email protected]- 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: [email protected]
- 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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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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
