2025 Performance Scholarships

Application Fees

There is a fee of $40 due during the initial application process. Fees are non-refundable. Fees will be returned only for applications that cannot be accepted; those refunds will be processed immediately after March 22, 2025.

Winners Concert: Additional Scholarships Available

Winners of first- and second-place performance scholarships will be invited to perform in person at the Competition's Final Round/Winners Concert on Sunday, May 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m., in Guzzetta Recital Hall at The University of Akron.

The Scholarship Concert will be adjudicated and two additional scholarships of $2,000 and $1,000 will be awarded.

A People's Choice Award of $500 will also be awarded.

All repertoire must be chosen from the 2025 Competition Repertoire Requirements — but cannot exceed 9 minutes in length.

Performers at the Winners Concert must provide an accompanist, if needed.

Please Note

All scholarship winners may be invited to perform at a Tuesday Musical event on a mutually agreeable date.

Contact Information

scholarship@tuesdaymusical.org

• If you have won first-place scholarships twice from Tuesday Musical in the past, you may not compete again in the same category.
• You must be an Ohio resident or studying with a college/university music teacher at an Ohio academic institution.
• You must be currently enrolled in a music-degree program at a college or university.
• You must not have been born before March 22, 1995.
• Scholarships are awarded at the discretion of the judges, whose decisions are final.

First-Place Scholarships: $2,000 

• Arden J. Yockey Scholarship for BRASS
• Marilyn Fischer and Joan Marie Schrer Scholarship for PIANO
• Frederick A. and Elizabeth M. Specht Scholarship for STRINGS
• Tuesday Musical Scholarship for ORGAN
• Arden J. Yockey Scholarship for VOICE
• Frederick A. and Elizabeth M. Specht Scholarship for WOODWINDS
• Larry D. Snider Scholarship for MARIMBA/CLASSICAL STEEL PAN 
• The Margaret Watts Hunter Scholarship for CLASSICAL GUITAR 

Special Award (Strings Category): $2,000

• Howard E. Leisinger Viola Prize 

Second-Place Scholarships: $1,500 

• Tuesday Musical Scholarship for BRASS
• Marguerite Thomas and Gertrude Lancaster Scholarship for PIANO
• Tuesday Musical Scholarship for STRINGS
• Tuesday Musical Scholarship for VOICE
• Ann, Emily & Jeffrey Gleason/Sara, Travis & Caitlin Rea Scholarship for WOODWINDS 

Second-Place Scholarship: $1,000

• Tuesday Musical Scholarship for ORGAN (NEW FOR 2025)

Third-Place Scholarships: $1,000

• Tuesday Musical Scholarship for BRASS
• Jerry L. Davidson and Clarenz J. Lightfritz Scholarship for PIANO
• Barbara Ainsworth Porter Scholarship for STRINGS
• Barbara Kingsbury Eaton Scholarship for VOICE
• George Pope Scholarship for WOODWINDS

Fourth-Place Scholarships: $750 

• William Bingham Foundation Scholarship for PIANO
• Tuesday Musical Scholarship for STRINGS
• Tuesday Musical Scholarship for VOICE

Final Round/Winners Concert Performance Scholarships

• $2,000 Arden J. Yockey Scholarship for PERFORMANCE
• $1,000 Arden J. Yockey Scholarship for PERFORMANCE

Final Round/Winners Concert Performance — People's Choice Award

• $500 John M. Ream Jr. DDS People’s Choice Award

IMPORTANT: Please prepare the complete works/movements as described in the repertoire requirements. Your total adjudicated performance time will be 15 minutes; the judge will monitor the timing so that all required repertoire will be performed at least in part.

• All repertoire that requires accompaniment must be performed with accompaniment‪.‬ ‬‬‬ 
• Only repertoire originally written for unaccompanied instrument or voice may be performed without an‬ accompanist‪.‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

* If you have questions regarding acceptable repertoire or wish to receive a list of potential accompanists who may be available in the area, e-mail scholarship@tuesdaymusical.org.

VOICE, all memorized

A. One aria from an opera, oratorio or cantata
B. One art song in German, French or Italian
C. One 20th-21st Century composition in English

STRINGS, INCLUDING STRING BASS, one selection memorized

A. One movement from a Bach unaccompanied work
B. Two contrasting movements of a concerto
C. One Classical, Romantic, or Modern Composition

PIANO, all memorized

A. One work by J.S. Bach
B. Two contrasting movements of a sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert
C. A work or group of works by a Romantic, 20th century, or 21st century composer

CLASSICAL GUITAR

A. One work by J. S. Bach
B. One piece in Classical or Romantic style
C. One 20th-21st Century composition (competitors may play their own compositions)

ORGAN

A. A contrapuntal piece by J.S. Bach
B. One movement from a romantic work
C. One movement of a 20th-21st Century composition

WOODWINDS

FLUTE, one selection memorized

A. One movement of a Classical concerto
B. One Romantic work
C. One 20th-21st Century composition

OBOE/BASSOON/CLARINET, one selection memorized

A. One movement of a Baroque sonata or Romantic work
B. Two contrasting movements of a Classical concerto
C. One 20th-21st Century composition

SAXOPHONE, one selection memorized

A. One movement of a Baroque work transcribed for any saxophone
B. Two contrasting movements from a standard saxophone work, i.e., Glazunov, Ibert, Tomasi, Creston, Milhaud, Villa-Lobos, etc. Single-movement standard works with contrasting sections are also acceptable, i.e. Glazounov, Debussy, etc.
C. One movement of a 20th-21st Century composition: extended techniques suggested but not required

BRASS

TRUMPET

A. First movement of a Haydn or Hummel concerto
B. One movement of a 20th-21st Century composition
C. An additional work of your choice

HORN

A. First movement of a Mozart or Haydn concerto
B. One movement of a 20th-21st Century composition
C. An additional work of your choice

BASS TROMBONE

A. One movement transcription of a Baroque or Classical composition
B. 1st movement of Concerto for Bass Trombone by Eric Ewazen or 1st movement of Sonata for Bass Trombone by Alec Wilder
C. An additional work of your choice

TROMBONE

A. One movement transcription of a Baroque or Classical composition
B. Sonata vox Gabrieli by Stepjan Sulek or Concerto by Launy Grondahl
C. An additional work of your choice

EUPHONIUM

A. One movement transcription of a Baroque or Classical composition
B. Fantasia by Gordon Jacob or 1st movement of the Euphonium Concerto by Joseph Horovitz
C. An additional work of your choice

TUBA

A. One movement transcription of a Baroque or Classical composition
B. 1st movement of the Concerto for Bass Tuba by Ralph Vaughan Williams or the 1st movement of the Sonata by Bruce Broughton
C. An additional work of your choice

MARIMBA/CLASSICAL STEEL PAN 

A. One work featuring marimba and one work featuring classical steel pan — no transcriptions.
C. On your application, please enter NONE for the third selection/composer.
B. Scroll down for repertoire suggestions.

Marimba suggestions (or you may choose others of similar quality*)

• David Maslanka: Variations on Lost Love
• Eric Ewazen: Northern Lights
• Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska: Toccata
• Keiko Abe: Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
• Pius Cheung: Nocturnes in F Major, Gb Major, F Minor, E Minor
• Elliot Cole: Bloom Suite
• Jacob Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water
• Ross Edwards: Marimba Dances
• Eckhard Kopetzki: Kaskada
• Paul Lansky: Three Moves for Marimba
• Minoru Miki: Time for Marimba
• Ney Rosauro: Preludes No. 1-3
• Eric Sammut: Rotations I-IV, Libertango, Variations on Porgy and Bess
• Emmanuel Séjourné: Prelude No. 1
• Paul Smadbeck - Virginia Tate: Rhythm Song
• Andrew Thomas: Merlin

• Blake Tyson: A Cricket Sang and Set The Sun, Firefish

• Alejandro Viñao: Khan Variations
• Kousaku Yamada: Red Dragonfly

• Nebojsa Zivkovic: Ilijas

Classical Steel Pan suggestions (or you may choose others of similar quality*)

• Liam Teague: Cell-O-Vibes
• David Molk: Spice - Canela is one movement from this mutli-movement piece
• Andy Akiho: Omnipresent, Macqueripe, Aka, Hadairo
• Liam Teague: El Rio, Impressions, A Visit to Hell
• Paul Ross: One Child, Little Ryan
• Christopher Belich: Evening Tides, Hurricane

* If you have questions regarding acceptable repertoire, e-mail scholarship@tuesdaymusical.org.