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Note: Members of the Junior Division should also carefully check the NFMC Summer Scholarships, as various age levels are included in Summer Music Center and camp opportunities.

To print out the application form for any of the competitions below, click on the yellow notepad icon below the chart description.
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The NFMC Ellis Virginia Allison Collaborative Award (honoring a Past National President)

Category: Vocal accompanying, instrumental accompanying

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Must have reached the 19th, but not the 26th birthday by application deadline

$30

$2,500

March 1, 
odd numbered years

NFMC Chairman: Dr. Leslie Poss
237 Sandbrook Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405

  application form

 

  Requirements

 

The NFMC Elizabeth Greiger Wiegand Sacred Music of the Faiths Award  

Category: Choral Conducting, Piano, Organ or Voice for students majoring in Church Music

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Must have reached the 16th, but not the 26th birthday by March 1 the year of the auditions.

$5

$600
(Funded by the Wiegand Endowment)

March 1, odd-numbered 
years

NFMC Chairman: Helen Hammond

  application form

 

The NFMC Lynn Freeman Olson Composition Awards

Category: Keyboard Composition

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
Advanced: High School Graduate through age 25.

High School: Grades 10-11-12

None

$1,500
($1,000 funded by the Lynn Freeman Olson Endowment given by Friends and James Schnars)

February 1, odd-numbered 
years

NFMC 
Chairman:
Mr. James Schnars
6550 Shoreline Dr, Ste 7505, St. Petersburg, FL 33708

  application form

 

  Requirements

 

The NFMC Lynn Freeman Olson Pedagogy Awards

Category: Piano

Age Limit Entry Fee Award Amount Deadline for Application
All ages who have undergraduate degree in piano

None

$5,000 Funded by Lynn Freeman Olson Endowment given by Friends and James Schnars

January 31, odd-numbered 
years

NFMC 
Chairman:
Mr. James Schnars
6550 Shoreline Dr, Ste 7505, St. Petersburg, FL 33708

  application form

 

  Requirements

 

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