E170 000 SAMRO MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP UP FOR GRABS

MBABANE – If you are a gifted Swazi young jazz or opera singer, you could win a coveted Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) Overseas Scholarship worth E170 000.

This was revealed through a South African Newspaper called Mopani Herald and the deadline for the applications is May 15, 2015.
Music students and young professionals aged 32 and younger are eligible to apply for these prestigious music study awards.

Every year since 1962, the SAMRO Foundation, which manages music education and corporate social investment programmes on behalf of the SAMRO, offers South Africa’s gifted music students the opportunity to win one of two lucrative scholarships, to further their postgraduate studies overseas.

One of these is awarded in the Western Art (or classical) music genre and the other is presented for excellence in jazz music. The scholarships operate on a four-year cycle, alternating among instrumentalists, composers, keyboard players and singers.

In 2015, the SAMRO Foundation is inviting applications from music students majoring in vocal performance, at a South African university. Applicants must be citizens of South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho or Swaziland, born after May 15, 1982.
The two main overseas scholarship awards are currently valued at R170 000 each, with a number of subsidiary prizes available for exceptional candidates.

The total prize pot for this highly regarded annual music competition amounts to almost R500 000.
The SAMRO Overseas Scholarships Competition has produced a gallery of illustrious singing alumni over the past 50 years.
The scholarships competition takes the format of three rounds, adjudicated by a panel of music experts and culminating in a public gala concert at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg.

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