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Music awards and funding 2007

Summary: A list of awards and funding available to blind and partially sighted musicians.

Gardners Trust Braille Music Literacy Award

The Gardners Trust Braille Music Literacy Award is an annual competition designed to encourage young students' use of braille music.

RNIB administer tests of reading, understanding and performing braille music in five levels, plus a Senior Award. For further information please contact the Music Advisory Service.

Elizabeth Eagle-Bott Memorial Awards

The Elizabeth Eagle-Bott Memorial Awards grant major awards (around £20,000) and lesser awards (up to £5,000) to young organists and other young musicians who are blind and partially sighted.

To qualify, applicants need to be registered blind or partially sighted, (usually) under 30 years old, and be a British citizen.

The award may be used outside the UK. Applicants are encouraged to submit enterprising requests which are clearly linked to their personal goals in the music profession.

For example:

  • instrumental or vocal tuition
  • tuition fees for post graduate courses at music conservatoires
  • fees for summer schools
  • travel costs
  • transcriber and reader costs
  • music technology purchase
  • instrument hire, maintenance or purchase
  • concert costs.

The Elizabeth Eagle-Bott Memorial Fund is administered by RNIB with an award panel sitting in May. The awarding body may meet more than once a year to consider exceptional applications. Applications are to be made by 31 March each year.

There is no application fee. Interview and audition expenses will be met by the fund.

Contact us

For further information about awards, please contact mas@rnib.org.uk or telephone the Music Advisory Service on 020 7388 1266.

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Content author: mas@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 08/04/2008 18:38

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