Music Scholarship Application

We will begin reviewing your materials immediately upon receipt. CSB+SJU music faculty members will carefully review submitted recordings within 10 days to determine scholarship eligibility. 

Recording Guidelines

Video Requirements

All audition materials on the video must be done in one, continuous, un-edited take. (Keep the camera on at all times through the audition). Your face and fingers/valves/slides/bow/sticks must always be visible in the video.

Upload your video to YouTube as an "unlisted" video. Secure a download link for the file that you can share with us. Please check to make sure that the permissions will allow us to view your video. There will be a place within your scholarship application form for you to share the link to your audition video.

• Guitarists will perform one solo classical guitar selection or excerpt of the selection and one selection of your choice in any style, ensemble or solo.
• Instrumentalists will perform two contrasting selections (similar to state contest repertoire).
• Organists will perform a representative work from Bach or his contemporaries and a short Romantic or Modern organ work; in lieu of one piece of repertoire, organists may choose to play two hymns or a hymn and another representative piece of liturgical music. 
• Percussionists will perform one snare drum and one mallet piece. 
• Pianists will perform two contrasting selections from the classical piano repertoire from the intermediate to advanced levels.
• Vocalists will perform two contrasting selections. One piece should be from the classical solo vocal repertoire (similar to state contest repertoire). The second piece may also be from the classical repertoire or a work from the musical theater, jazz, or popular traditions.

Please Note:

• Students may be considered for a music scholarship at any time during their junior year and through their senior year* of high school. *For priority scholarship consideration, we ask that students submit their application by January 15 of their senior year.
• Students do not have to major or minor in music to receive a scholarship.
• Current CSB+SJU students are not eligible to apply for Fine Arts Scholarships.
• Students must comply with the Music Scholarship requirements in order to maintain the Music Scholarship for four years at CSB+SJU. Compliance with the requirements will be met if the student is:
  • Participating in a major ensemble at CSB+SJU (Chamber Choir, Men's Chorus, Women's Choir, Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, or Jazz Ensemble). 
  • Keyboard (piano and organ) students may fulfill their scholarship requirement by taking piano or organ lessons, playing piano full-time in a major ensemble, or by enrolling in MUSC 240-01A or 02A Ensemble Performance where they will accompany for Music Department instrumental and vocal applied studios or vocal ensembles (load is determined in consultation with the keyboard faculty).
  • Guitar students: Enrolling in and successfully completing the requirements of Guitar Lessons. Music majors should enroll in applied lessons MUSC 227, and minors should enroll in applied lessons MUSC 228; scholarship recipients who are not music majors or minors should enroll in applied lessons MUSC 113. (However, please note that placement with the guitar instructor is subject to availability; there are some semesters where the department is unable to accommodate all students who enroll in MUSC 113.). And participating in and successfully completing the requirements of Jazz Ensemble (MUSC 238) as a guitarist OR Guitar Ensemble (MUSC 245).
  • Must maintain a minimum grade requirement of "B" in ensembles and applied lessons.
• Students may apply for more than one Fine Arts Scholarship; however, if they are awarded more than one, they may accept only one of them.
• To learn more about the Music Department, visit www.csbsju.edu/music.