Each year the AMC awards several music scholarships that are paid directly to the student’s choice of a university music program or a summer music camp. In 2023 our awards totaled $33,000, and in 2024 our awards totaled $36,000!
Ray Charles Performing Arts Center on the Morehouse College campus. The deadline for receiving competition applications is March 8, 2025. Applicants will receive an email stating their audition slot and check-in time by March 22, 2025. Winners will be posted here, plus notified via email around April 01, 2025.
Only judges & volunteers, plus competitors and limited family members are invited to the event!
Please park in the lot on the right side of the Center, then enter through door at the back of the building.
Note all scholarship applications require a $40 non-refundable fee.
Click here to create a new 2025 application.
The previous competition was held Saturday, April 27, 2024 on the campus of Agnes Scott College in Presser Hall.
High School (8th through 12th grades)
1st place – $2500 Melvin Xu
2nd place – $1000 Chengyi Shao
Honorable Mention: – $500 Nathan Liu
Honorable Mention: – $500 Dahyun Yang
Undergraduate
1st place – $5000 Jungmin Park
2nd place – $3000 Jonathan Luo
Honorable Mention – $1000 Annabel Shue
Honorable Mention – $1000 Caleb Ferreira
Graduate
1st place – $5000 Maria Parrini
2nd place – $3000 Haoying Wu
Honorable Mention – $1000 Jinyue Gu
High School (8th through 12th grades)
1st place – $1000 Eugenie Lim
2nd place – $500 Arina Lee
Honorable Mention – $250 Ethan Lo
Undergraduate and Graduate
1st place- $2250 Benjamín Tomas
2nd place – $1000 Jesús Moreno
Honorable Mention – $500 River Sawchyn
Honorable Mention – $500 Sam Vaillancourt
High School (8th through 12th grades)
1st place – $1000 Roger Wang
2nd Place – $500 Sarah Serena Thompson
Honorable Mention – $250 Jonathan Daniel
Undergraduate & Graduate
1st place – $2250 Rebecca Manseau
2nd Place – $1000 Sydney Godfrey
2nd Place – $1000 Madison Chambers
Honorable Mention – $500 Alexander Harshaw
You can view the competition rules and required repertoire by scrolling down.
Awards for piano scholarships are made possible due to the generosity of the late Elizabeth Abbott Taylor.
Awards for instrumental and voice scholarships are due to the generosity of the late Ruth Carter and the late Emily Grigsby.
The discrepancy in scholarship amounts between piano and instrumental/vocal scholarships reflects the size of the designated funds. Your donations to the scholarship fund are appreciated and will allow for a more even distribution.
As always, to make a general donation, please scroll up to the top of this page then click the “Click here to donate!” button!
AUDITION GUIDELINES:
- Only Georgia residents or those enrolled in Georgia schools are eligible. A Georgia photo I.D. or a Georgia School ID is required to apply and at a check in on the day of the audition.
- A non-refundable $40 fee payable to the Atlanta Music Club is required.
- The number of applicants is limited to 60, applications accepted on a first come, first serve basis.
- The deadline for receiving applications for the competition was April 6, 2024.
- Applicants received an email stating their audition slot and check-in time by April 20, 2024.
- Applicants must arrive at their assigned check-in time — otherwise, they may be disqualified. Please note that you will not be able to check-in prior to your scheduled check- in time.
- Applicants must provide their own accompaniment. No taped accompaniments are permitted.
- Applicants must provide an original score for the judges. No photocopies are permitted.
- All performances should be by memory.
- The judges reserve the right to stop the applicant at any time at their discretion.
- All applicants will be e-mailed judges’ comments in the next few weeks after the competition.
- Winners are posted here, and notified via email no later than April 28, 2024.
- Judges’ decisions are final. No winner may be declared at judges’ discretion.
- Winners may be invited to perform at various Atlanta Music Club events and will be expected to give one performance gratis.
- First place winners are not eligible to take part in the future Atlanta Music Club Scholarship competitions in the same age group award (such as 1st place high school piano award, 1st place undergraduate vocal award, etc).
- Scholarship money may be used for 2024 summer music camps or festivals or applied to 2024-2025 college tuition.
- All award money will be sent directly to the school or camp/festival of winner’s choice. The school must be NASM accredited, and the camp/festival has to be approved by AMC’S scholarship committee. We NEVER distribute funds directly to the winners!
REPERTOIRE REQUIREMENTS:
- Piano – One or two standard works of contrasting styles and different periods.
- Instrumental – One or two contrasting, standard works of different periods OR a 1st movement of a standard concerto.
- Vocal – Three pieces of contrasting styles in different languages. For example, an early English or an Italian classic song, a standard art song, and one opera/oratorio aria.
