Missouri Music Notes
January 2019
President's message
Founders Day
Award deadlines
$20,000 Young Artist Award
$20,000 Ellis Piano Duo Award
$3,000 Student/Collegiate Auditions Award
$2,500 NFMC Thelma A. Robinson Ballet Award
$1,750 NFMC Wendell Irish Viola Award
$1,500 Stillman Kelley/Thelma Byrum Awards for instrumental & piano
$1,500 NFMC Hinda Honigman Performance Award for the Blind
$1,250 NFMC Alpha Corinne Mayfield Award in Opera Performance
$800 NFMC Vivian Menees Nelson Award for the Disabled and Visually Impaired
$100 NFMC Angie Greer Music in Poetry Award
March 1st
$4,000 Emil & Ruth Beyer Composition Awards
$2,000 NFMC Joyce Walsh Award for the Handicapped
$2,000 NFMC Mary Alice Cox Strings Award
$1,750 Martha Marcks Mack Junior Vocal Award
$1,500 NFMC Student/Collegiate Composition Awards
$1,500 NFMC Virgina Allison Collaborative Award
$1,500 NFMC Dorothy Dann Bullock Music Therapy Scholarship
$1,500 NFMC Oscar Valentin Violin Award
$1,250 NFMC Carolyn Nelson Double Reed Award
$1,000 Marilyn Caldwell Piano Award
$1,500 NFMC Lynn Freeman Olson Composition Award
$1,000 NFMC Music for the Blind Composition Award
$1,000 W. Paul Benzinger/Valentin Music for the Blind Performance Award
$ 800 NFMC Ernest A Bluhm Flute Award
$ 800 NFMC Myrtle Mehan/Hazel Morgan Music Education Scholarship
$ 750 NFMC Irma Carey-Wilson Music Therapy Scholarship
$ 650 NFMC Ruth B Robertson Music Therapy Scholarhip
$ 600 NFMC Elizabeth Greiger Wiegand Sacred Music of the Faiths Award
$ 500 NFMC Claire Ulrich Whitehurst (Flanagan) Piano Award
More details can be found on the national website: www.nfmc-music.org
All applications/submissions must be submitted online.
Calendar
May 5-12 National Music Week, Theme: Music -- A Magic Key
May 17-18 MFMC Convention, Cape Girardeau
May 18 MFMC Junior Festival State Competition
June 18-22 NFMC National Convention, Jacksonville, FL
July 17-20 Federation Days at Opera in the Ozarks, Eureka Springs, AR
Report Deadlines of March 1st
Parade of American Music reports should be sent to state chair Marilyn Caldwell and regional chair Carla Johnson for participation certificates. Contest Entries should be sent directly to national chair Deborah Freeman.
Missouri Fundraiser for Opera in the Ozarks Music Stands
President Julie Watson
Email: MoFMCPres@gmail.com
Website: www.MissouriFMC.org
Phone: 913-908-2386
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missourifmc/