Resources and Opportunities

This one-year award for students in piano studies aims to defray educational costs, enhance access to studio music lessons and fund top-priority needs for our piano students. Winners may be invited to give and/or be featured in a recital/concert. Amount: Up to $1,500.

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This one-year award is given to promising piano students. Blind at birth, Carol Ferrando began piano lesson at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music at age 6. She later earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music from SFSU. After her studies Carol often performed throughout the Bay Area and opened her own music studio where she taught until her death in 2011. Amount: Up to $1,000 and a recital.

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This award is for undergraduate juniors and seniors and graduate students studying viola. It is named in memory of Milton Preves, who served as principal violist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 52 years. The longtime Glenview, Illinois, resident was a fixture in local music circles and an educator who held professorships at DePaul and Northwestern universities.

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This annual award is presented to an outstanding piano student in memory of Michael Seagrove Avalos, who earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in piano performance at SFSU. Because of Michael’s special love for Hispanic music, the winner of this award includes music by a Hispanic composer both in the competition for the award and in the award recital. The competition is held in the fall semester of odd-numbered years (2021, 2023, etc.). Amount: Up to $400 and a recital.

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This award supports needy students with superior musical and academic ability.

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This award assists Music majors by defraying educational expenses. Special provisions allow recipients who complete their Music degree in a timely manner with an above-average grade point average and a high level of musical achievement to have their Pone loan forgiven. Amount: $400 – $4,000.

In memory of Paul Andrieu, this annual scholarship is awarded to a junior to help fund the senior year in preparing for a career in piano performance or piano education. The Ross McKee Foundation furnishes the scholarship. Amount: Up to $2,000 and a recital.

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Perform works for instrument/voice and orchestra. Competition dates are announced after Sept. 1 each year. Competition auditions are in October/November. Please consult with the instructor of MUS 371: “Orchestra” before selecting your work.

This award honors a paper for an undergraduate Music class at SF State. Students and faculty may submit student-written papers.

This scholarship provides financial assistance to talented piano students. Professor Emeritus William Corbett-Jones is a celebrated pianist who has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia as soloist with orchestra, recitalist and in collaboration with internationally renowned colleagues.

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This fund assists undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Music by defraying educational expenses.\

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This award honors excellence in your specialized area of music.

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This scholarship promotes the development of gifted pianists in the SFSU Bachelor of Music and Master of Music piano performance programs.

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This one-year helps strengthen and permanently support the School of Music, providing financial assistance to a junior, senior or graduate student enrolled in Music classes as a major or a minor.

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This award gives financial assistance to students preparing for a career in musical performance. It is open to single Music majors: piano, strings, classical guitar, classical voice, woodwinds, brass, percussion and world music, composition, composers and theory.

This fund assists the School of Music in our desire to provide significant scholarship support to promising student musicians, with an emphasis on promoting equity and inclusion, especially for under-represented populations and for closing the opportunity gap.

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This forgivable loan is open to non-Music majors continuing performance in a music ensemble at SFSU through their college careers to defray educational expenses.

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This scholarship provides financial assistance to a student pursuing a career in jazz performance and/or jazz composing.

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This award supports students studying voice: classical voice, soprano, tenor and bass.

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This awards supports promising undergraduate students in Music. Mona Shahnavaz  established this fund in memory of her late father, Dr. Manouchehr Shahnavaz. Dr. Shahnavaz was born in Tehran, Iran and ever the adventurous and academic, he trailblazed his path through medical school to the University of Geneva in Switzerland and completed his surgery residency in the U.K. while completing a fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Despite opportunities to establish his life and practice in any western country of his choice, his love for Iran brought him back home to serve his homeland. Dr. Shahnavaz was an art and music enthusiast.

This award honors Music majors in financial need.

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This scholarship encourages excellence in the study of music.

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This scholarship awards Music majors with a “B”-level grade point average. You must demonstrate talent and commitment to contemporary music.

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This award is given to outstanding undergraduate Music majors at the end of their junior year. Our Music faculty selections the winner, guided solely by consideration of merit.

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This certificate of achievement is presented each year to a student who shows exceptional promise in the art and craft of composing for film, games and other forms of visual media. Please note that this is a certificate of merit only, not a scholarship.