Early Music America offers a limited number of scholarships each year to currently enrolled students to support attendance at early-music workshops in North America.
2022 Recipients

Academy of Fortepiano Performance


Seraphic Fire Professoinal Choral Institute

Academy of Fortepiano Performance

Academy of Fortepiano Performance

Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute

Berwick Academy
Application Process
Eligibility
- Early Music America membership is required of all applicants.
- Students may redeem a one-year complimentary Student membership once during their course of study.
- If you are unsure of your membership status, please email info@earlymusicamerica.org.
- Applicants must be currently-enrolled students at the time of submission.
- Award recipients are ineligible to apply until the second year following their award.
- 2022 EMA Scholarship recipients will be eligible to apply again in 2024.
- Current EMA Board and Staff members are ineligible to apply
Materials to be Submitted
- Contact Information
- Education Information
- Current school
- Degree program
- Voice or Instrument Specialization
- Expected Graduation Date
- # Years of Study
- Current instructor in your specialization
- Workshop Information
- Applicants may submit an application for up to three workshops.
- Workshop Name
- Workshop Location
- Sponsoring Organization
- Workshop Dates
- Workshop Tuition
- Estimated Cost of Food, Lodging, and Travel for workshop.
- Short Personal Essay (750 words max)
- personal essay describing your musical background, your specific experience with early music, and how the further exploration of early music performance, including attendance at the workshop(s) named above, will enhance your development as a musician
- One Letter of Recommendation
- Ideally from a teacher who can comment on your experience in early music; if that’s not possible, then from a principal music teacher who can comment on your work more broadly and suitability for early music study.
- Up to 10 minutes of video demonstrating your early music performance skills submitted as video links.
- List of works performed
Application Instructions and Information
- The online application closed on Monday, April 4, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET.
- We highly encourage applicants to submit your application several days prior to the deadline, so any issues can be resolved in a timely matter. We will not be able to accept any applications after the deadline has passed.
- Letter of recommendation should be emailed and attached as a PDF to specialprojects@earlymusicamerica.org and MUST be submitted by Friday, April 8, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET.
- Please send only ONE letter of recommendation.
- It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure the letter of recommendation is received by EMA by the deadline.
- Scholarship recipients will be notified by Friday, April 29, 2022 and must accept by Friday, May 6, 2022.
- Scholarship recipients are required to submit a final reflection, including high resolution video or photos taken during the workshop, no more than 30 days following completion of their workshop(s) funded through this scholarship.
Scholarships of up to $1,250 will be awarded. The number of scholarships and amounts awarded will be determined by the judges based on the applicant pool received.
Questions may be sent to EMA at specialprojects@earlymusicamerica.org
Suitable Workshops
The Workshops listed below represent the types of North American pre-professional and professional workshops suitable for Workshop Scholarship applicants. This is not exhaustive list, and applicants should contact EMA with questions about the suitability of the proposed workshop.
- Amherst Early Music – Various programs
- American Bach Soloists ACADEMY
- Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity – Evolution of the String Quartet
- Carmel Bach Festival
- Domaine Forget Academy – Chamber Orchestra and Continuo
- Early Music in Motion Workshops (Double-Reed, Hurdy-Gurdy, and Sackbut)
- Heifetz Baroque Vocal Workshop
- Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute
- Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Academy
- Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute
- Singing Gregorian Chant and Renaissance Polyphony
- Summer Baroque Academy for Instrumentalists – British Columbia
- Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute
- University of Michigan Early Keyboard Institute
- Valley of the Moon Festival Apprenticeship
Previous Recipients
2020-2021
No scholarships awarded
2019
David Beklovski
Alyssa Campbell
Brenda Koh
Peter Lim
Andrew Truskowski
Sinéad White
2018
Darina Ablogina
Butter Quartet
Margaret Carpenter-Haigh
Marylin Winkle
Shuang Yu
2017
Veronika Anissimova
Maximilien Brisson
Gemma Goday Díaz-Corralejo
Joseph Harris
Liz Vivian Loayaza Herrera
Hanbyeol Lee
Carter Tholl
Zuguang Xiao
Sydney ZumMallen
2016
Mary Arendt
Sarah Bliele
Katherine Boardman
Joyce Chen
Jena Gardner
Chloe Kim
Maryse Legault
Nicholas Loucks
Marie Nadeau-Tremblay
2015
Jessica Korotkin
Daniel Mireles
Jonathan Slade
Alice Culin-Ellison
Sarah Lodico
Arnie Tanimoto
David Dickey
Bryan Lane
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
2014
Michael Manning
Mariana Mevans
Arian Vriens
Sallynee Amawat
Amy Belknap
Cynthia Black
Christopher Grills
Joshua Romatowski
Corey Shotwell
2013
Gabriel Benton
Vanessa Castillo
Ryan Gallagher
Fiona Gillespie
Heather Holmquest
Sarah Huebsch
Joseph Monticello
Andrew Padgett
Alize Rozsnyai
James Williamson
2012
Megan Chartrand
Carlos Cuestas
Ching Yi
Denise Fan
Brennan Hall
Allen Hamrick
Lindsay McIntosh
Lindsey McLennan
Michael Pecak
Annabeth Shirley
Christine Wilkinson
2011
Gabriel Benton
Shin Hwang
Emily Lau
Sarah Meyer
Jessica Petrus
Maria Raffaele
John Romey
Niccolo Seligmann
Amy Shen
Beiliang Zhu
2010
Liliana Castelblanco
Laura Cleveland
Caitlin Dawson
Lucy Fitz Gibbon
Ariana Mason
Maria Jose Romero
Robert Warner
2009
Michel Angers
Bryan Duerfeldt
Stephen Gamboa
Salome Sandoval McNutt
Ka-Wai Yu
Patrick Jones
Sian Ricketts
2008
Andrew Arceci
Lydia Brotherton
Hélène Brunet
Luke Conklin
James Augustine “Gus” Mercante
2007
Suzanne Anderson
Hsuan Chang
Paul Kieffer
Andrew Fouts
Alexa Raine-Wright
2006
Adam Bregman
Janelle Davis
Dianna Grabowski
Everett Redburn
Yulia Van Doren
2005
Dalyn Cook
Yura Nakajima
Laura Osterlund
2004
Brandi Berry
Liam Byrne
Debra Nagy
2003
Mahan Esfahani
David Giusti
Andrew Levy
2002
Ghislaine Deschambault
Charlotte Dobbs
John Rush
2001
Benjamin Katz
Vivien Shotwell
Hideki Yamaya
2000
Felix Deak
Daphna Mor
Joanna Morton
Adam Pearl
1999
Risa Kawabata
Alicia Kravitz
Ilya Poletaev
1998
Fania Schwebel
Héctor Sequera
Early Music America also offers biennial scholarships to support advanced study in the early music field. Learn more.