Benefits of Membership
Mu Phi Epsilon Fraternity offers a Musicological Research Contest, an Original Composition Contest, the Marian Bowker Davidson Accompanying Award, the Katherine Doepke Creative Programming Award, the Mary Alice Cox Grant for Lifelong Learning, and various awards for its members and chapters. The Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, established to honor the Fraternity’s founders and other deceased members, funds the philanthropic, scholarship and educational activities of Mu Phi Epsilon. Some of the many scholarships and grants are:
- Awards and scholarships for undergraduate and graduate musical performance
- Music Education awards
- Scholarships for study at recognized summer programs
- Doctoral grants
- Foreign study grants
- Scholarships for voice, instruments, music therapy, jazz, music business, and others
- An international performance competition with the winner sponsored in a two-year concert tour
Summer tuition scholarships are offered to members of Mu Phi Epsilon attending music programs at Aspen, Banff Music Centre, Brevard Music Center, Chautauqua Institution, Encore School for Strings, Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, Music Academy of the West, Round Top, and Tanglewood Music Center. Philanthropic gifts are made to community music schools through the Music Outreach Project.
To celebrate the 75h Anniversary of Mu Phi Epsilon the Fraternity and the Foundation cooperated in building and endowing a cottage/studio for a composer-in-residence at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. The first Composer-In-Residence selected was Emma Lou Diemer, Mu Delta. She accepted but later found it necessary to decline the appointment, so Elie Siegmeister was named as the composer to occupy the Chair of Composition at Brevard Music Center. Notable composers to follow include W. Frances McBeth, Elliot DelBorgo, Walter Hartley, Fisher Tull, Don Freund, and many others.
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