Scholarships and Endowed Funds

"The sense of artistic community and the ability to play off one another, reflecting upon ideas and forms of expression, has proven invaluable to my development as an intellectual artist. Once again, I sincerely thank you for your generous scholarship donation towards my studies here at Eastman as your contributions have afforded me this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Bobby Mitchell
Class of '08
Piano Performance Major

Endowed funds dedicated to the Eastman School of Music lay a strong foundation for the School's financial strength. Held in perpetuity for the purpose designated by the donor, these funds sustain the School by providing an ongoing and vital source of annual support for scholarships and prizes, faculty salaries, guest lectures, library acquisitions, musical instruments, collegiate and community programs, and capital and operating expenses.

The Eastman School of Music is grateful to all of the donors who have contributed over the past 87 years to the 232 endowed funds (as of April 28, 2008) listed below:

George Abbott Fund
Sidney Adams Family Memorial Lectureship Fund
Samuel Adler Scholarship Fund
Fred V. Alati Endowed Jazz Scholarship
Ann Anway Scholarship Fund
Arts Leadership Program/ESM
Arthur Assum Scholarship Fund
Edith H. Babcock Fund for Scholarships at the Eastman School of Music
Edna V. Bachman Memorial Fund
Anna Louise Baker Scholarship Fund
The Barr Award in Accompanying
Caroline Cirotzki Barsh Scholarship Fund
James Baskin Piano Scholarship
Betty Bauer Organ Scholarship Fund
Warren Benson Scholarship in Composition
Warren and Pat Benson Forum on Creativity
Lola J. Bergner Scholarship Fund
Julia B. Bissell Scholarship Fund
Andrew J. Bogiages Memorial Prize in Bassoon
Eleanor Randall Browne Scholarship Fund
Anthony V. Bruno Scholarship in Clarinet
Buxton Fellowship for Graduate Study in Violin
Catherine F. Carnes Endowment Fund
Russell and Kathleen Cassata Voice Scholarship
Lynne Clarke Scholarship Fund
Olive McCue Clarke/Russell Clarke Scholarship Fund
Clase Voice Scholarship in Honor of Renee Fleming
Carol Frank Clement Scholarship Fund
Anthony Cometa Scholarship
Roslyn Cominsky Endowment
Kenneth W. Conners-Helen T. Sullivan Scholarship Fund
Fay Stinson Craighead Memorial Scholarship
Catharine Crozier and Harold Gleason Scholarship
Anne T. Cummins Voice Scholarship
Frank S. Cunkle Scholarship Fund
Cuyler Scholarship Fund
Mary Wallace Davidson Fund
Deavenport Scholarship Fund
Carl Lewis Deavenport Scholarship Fund
Evelyn Delong Scholarship Fund
Edward Dems Scholarship Fund
Esther Dickey Scholarshp Fund for Piano
Adrienne Aye Dieterich Scholarship Fund
Anthony and Carolyn Donato Prize
Thomas Donohue Memorial Scholarship
Ruth and Arno Drucker Scholarship
Mildred Carruth Duengfelder Scholarship
George Eastman Endowment Fund
George Eastman Endowment Fund II ESM
George Eastman Fund
Eastman Unrestricted Endowed Scholarship Fund
Jose Echaniz Memorial Fund
Eisenhart Professorship in Music Education
M. Herbert Eisenhart Scholarship Fund
M. Herbert Eisenhart Teaching Award
David M. Falk Scholarship Fund
Farash Scholarship Fund
Arthur Farwell Fund
Ann C. Fehn Memorial Award for the Accompaniment of German Lieder
Mildred Feinbloom International Student Scholarship Fund
Frederick Fennell Eastman Wind Ensemble Fund
Lois E. Fisher Scholarship Fund
Harold L. and Edith Smith Frank Scholarship Fund
Jack L. Frank Fund
Evelyn A. Fraser Endowed Fund
The Evelyn A. Fraser Memorial Fund
Margaret Davis Friedlich and Alan & Sylvia Davis Memoiral Fund
Friends of Eastman Opera Endowment Fund
Orazio Frugoni Scholarship for Piano
John and Setsuko Fuyuume Piano Endowment Fund
Everett Gates String Music Education Scholarship
General Permanent Fund
Cecile Staub Genhart Scholarship Fund
Herman Genhart Choral Conducting Scholarship Fund
Belle S. Gitelman Fund
Wilma Golub Scholarship Fund
Jerald C. Graue Memorial Fund
Grace and Robert Gray Scholarship Fund
Wallace R. Gray Fund for the Acquisition and Preservation of Materials Relating to Church Music
Wallace Robert Gray Scholarship in Church Music
Henry S. Grossman Violin Scholarship
August M. and E. Gertrude Guenther Endowed Fund
Peter Hadcock Scholarship in Clarinet
Walter Hagen Conducting Prize Fund
Howard Hanson Fund
Howard Hanson Institute of American Music Endowment Fund
Karen Noble Hanson Scholarship Fund in Memory of Kathryn Cromwell Noble and Joseph L. Noble
Glenn and Frances Harris Cello Prize
William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship Fund
A. Arlene Hershey Endowed Vocal Scholarship Fund
Allan Hill Memorial Scholarship
Nancy Holland-Beck Memorial Scholarship
Hopeman Fund in Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ward Morgan
Imagination Fund
International Scholarship Endowed Fund
Ralph Jackno Memorial Scholarship Fund
Jempelis International Scholarship
Billy Joel Scholarship
Johnson-Rising Scholarship Fund
Betty Kanable Scholarship Fund
The Jeremiah Kaplan Acquisition Fund
Kelley Memorial Vocal Scholarship Fund
Kent Kennan Endowed Scholarship Fund
Nancie Roop Kennedy Vocal Scholarship Fund
Charles W. Kennett Scholarship Fund
Donald F. Kilmer Scholarship
Katherine Danforth Fisher King Scholarship Fund
Muriel E. Klepper Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Barbara M. H. Koeng Award
Mary Krusenstjerna Scholarship
John La Montaine Endowment for Gifted Freshman
Max Landow Memorial Scholarship Fund
Richard Lane Scholarship
Ethel R. Lannin Memorial Fund
Rose A. Lannin Memorial Fund
Lilli Lehman Scholarship Fund
Victor and Anna Lenti Scholarship Fund
Alexander Leventon Scholarship Fund
Adelaid H. Lindsay Scholarship
Ernest F. Livingstone Memorial Fund for Music and Humanistic Studies
Gretchen Lochner and Peter Gonzales Scholarship Fund
Lillian Miller Loos Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Leopold Lorentz Award
Lowell and Esther MacMillan Scholarship Fund
George E. MacNabb Scholarship Fund
Eileen Malone Scholarship Fund
John Maloy Scholarship
George Marge Scholarship Fund
Joseph Mariano Scholarship Fund for Flute
Alvera Barbor Martin Endowed Scholarship Fund
John and Tessa Martin Scholarship Fund
Muriel Phillips McCarl Memorial Fund
William McIver Graduate Scholarship for Voice Pedagogy
Lizzie Teege Mason Memorial Fund
Master-White Memorial Fund
Seth McCoy Scholarship Fund for Voice Students
Edna A. McLaughlin Scholarship Fund
Anne Hayden McQuay Scholarship Fund
Marian McPartland Endowed Fellowship
Nellie I. Meek Memorial Scholarship Fund
Harry and Louise Messina Family Scholarship
Linda and Harry Messina, Jr. Scholarship
The Frances Alexander Miller Fund
Roger Minor Memorial Fund
Christakis S. and Agnes C. Modinos Graduate Scholarship
Mac and Helen Morgan Endowed Scholarship Fund
Frederick W. Moritz Scholarship Fund
Mary Durand Mulligan Fund
Molly Mulligan Fund
Music for All Endowment
Lucile Wachtel Napp Operatic Scholarship Fund
Verna B. Nash Visiting Artist Master Class in the String Department
Charles R. Nicholls Memorial Scholarship Fund
Carolyn J. Noble Memorial Endowment
Ornest Fund
Jocelyn Panepento Scholarship Fund
The Ernest J. Papavasilion Memorial Scholarship Fund
Eastman Pathways Endowed Fund
Marie Erhart Pearson Scholarship Fund
Vernon Kellogg Penny Memorial Scholarship Fund
George Pettinger Memorial Fund
Elizabeth S. Pollock Memorial Fund
Prince Endowment for Music Entrepreneurship
Ranlet Fund
Thelma K. Rawcliffe Scholarship Fund
Laura W. and Emory B. Remington Memorial Fund
Lester Remsen Memorial Scholarship
Joseph Rippey Endowment Fund
Rochester City School District Partnership/Community Education Division Endowed Scholarship Fund
Bernard Rogers Memorial Fund
Lois Smith Rogers Scholarship Fund
Simon Rose Scholarship
Suzanne Rosenblum Memorial Scholarship Fund
Harry and Julia Lifshitz Roth Memorial Scholarship Fund
Mark V. Ruda Scholarship Fund
Paul Sacher Endowed Scholarship in Composition
Philip J. Sanfillipo CED Adult Education Endowment Fund
Audrey Wollenberg Saphar Memorial Scholarship
Russell Saunders Scholarship
Raymond and Maxine Schirmer Scholarship Fund
Dorothy F. Schlenker Scholarship Fund
Lydia Schmidt Scholarship Fund
Caroline and Kilian Schmitt Fund
Florence Alexander Schoenegge Scholarship Fund
Harold Schwab Scholarship Fund
Constance H. Schwarz Fund
Marshall Seemann Scholarship Fund
Margaret Walsh Segers Endowed Scholarship Fund
Eugene Selhorst Memorial Scholarship Fund
John Jacob Seully Memorial Scholarship Fund
Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program Endowed Fund
Sibley Music Library Fund
Sigma Alpha Iota Scholarship Fund
William and Jocelyn Macy Sloan Scholarship Fund
Harold Osborn Smith Memorial Scholarship
Henry Smith, Jr. Scholarship Fund
The Brooks Smith Fellowship in Piano, Accompanying and Chamber Music
Rudolph Speth Memorial
Andrew Stalder Collegiate Scholarship Fund
Charles F. Stickney Scholarship
Martha B. Stone Scholarship
Kathleen Finucane Strakosh Piano Scholarship Fund
Yi-Kwei and Nancy Lee Sze Scholarship Fund
Millard Taylor Violin Scholarship Fund
Charles M. and Helen D. Thoms Memorial Fund
Charles M. and Helen D. Thoms Scholarship Fund Two
Ussachefsky Fund
John Van Voorhis Fund
Avis H. and David L. Vaughan Scholarship Fund
Gertrude Vayo Scholarship Fund
Howard and Richard Vogt Vocal Scholarship
Marge L. Walawender Scholarship Fund
William Warfield Endowed Scholarship Fund
Kohei and Iwa Wantanabe Scholarship
Ruth T. Watanabe Endowment Fund
Glenn E. Watkins Lecture Endowment
Glenn Watkins Traveling Fellowship
Margaret Kershner Weber Memorial Scholarship
Marion Weed Memorial Scholarship
Frederick and Hinda Westphal Scholarship Fund
Evan Whallon Conducting Fellowship
Paul and Josephine White Memorial Scholarship Fund
Alice K. Whitney Scholarship Fund
Peter O. and Leola Wilkins Scholarship Fund
Alma Johnson Willard Scholarship Fund
Raymond Wilson Fund
Rayburn Wright Jazz Recognition Fund
Fred E. and Mary E. Zeller Scholarship Fund
Avedis Zildjian Percussion Scholarships
Richard Ziter Piano Endowment Fund

Feel free to contact Eric Reuscher, Assistant Director for Donor Relations, at 585.274.1054 or ereuscher@esm.rochester.edu with any questions.