Scholarship ticker April 2025

In April, you can ap­p­ly for the fol­lo­wing in­ter­nal and ex­ter­nal scho­lar­ships and grants. De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on, ap­pli­ca­ti­on por­tals and ap­pli­ca­ti­on forms can be found un­der the re­spec­ti­ve links. Have fun brow­sing!

If you have any ques­ti­ons, plea­se get in touch with the re­le­vant cont­act per­son or cont­act sti­pen­di­um@orga.hfmdk-frank­furt.de.

Sin­ce March, ad­vice has been available by ap­point­ment. If re­qui­red, you are wel­co­me to cont­act us by e-mail at the abo­ve ad­dress. From May, the­re will be re­gu­lar con­sul­ta­ti­on hours and coun­sel­ing ser­vices aga­in - the­se will be an­noun­ced soon.

En­sem­ble Scho­lar­ship

The en­sem­ble scho­lar­ship is an ex­cel­lence scho­lar­ship en­do­wed with up to 20,000 eu­ros, which is ai­med at ad­van­ced stu­dents of the HfMDK in a fi­xed for­ma­ti­on in the Mas­ter's pro­gram in Cham­ber Mu­sic or in the Con­cert Ex­ami­na­ti­on pro­gram. As an en­sem­ble, the stu­dents should pur­sue the path to pro­fes­sio­nal life in a tar­ge­ted and ef­fec­ti­ve man­ner.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 18.05.2025

Len­zew­ski Foun­da­ti­on Pri­ze

The Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts (HfMDK) holds an an­nu­al com­pe­ti­ti­on for the Ina and Gus­tav Len­zew­ski Foun­da­ti­on Pri­ze for Cham­ber Mu­sic. The fo­cus of the com­pe­ti­ti­on va­ries from year to year.
in 2025, pia­no cham­ber mu­sic en­sem­bles (from pia­no trio) and mi­xed en­sem­bles (strings+ pia­no/winds+ pia­no/winds+ strings+ pia­no) can ap­p­ly. At least two thirds of the en­sem­ble mem­bers must be en­rol­led at the HfMDK.
The com­pe­ti­ti­on is ex­pli­cit­ly ai­med at en­sem­bles made up of stu­dents from the BA and MA KIA or KAM de­gree pro­grams. En­sem­bles stu­dy­ing for a Mas­ter's de­gree in Cham­ber Mu­sic or the Con­cert Ex­ami­na­ti­on are ex­cluded from par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 01.06.2025

Award of the Alix Steil­ber­ger Cul­tu­ral Foun­da­ti­on

Every year, the HfMDK awards two spon­sor­ship pri­zes from the Alix Steil­ber­ger Kul­tur-Stif­tung to par­ti­cu­lar­ly ta­len­ted third-year fe­ma­le stu­dents in the Ba­che­lor's de­gree pro­gram in Dance (BA­tanz) - in the ca­te­go­ries Con­tem­po­ra­ry Dance and Clas­si­cal Dance re­spec­tively.

Open to fe­ma­le stu­dents in their third year of the BA Dance pro­gram.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 01.06.2025

Schim­mel­haar grants

HfMDK stu­dents can ap­p­ly for a grant for a set of new strings, new bow co­vers, in­stru­ment main­ten­an­ce or ma­te­ri­als. 50% of the cos­ts can be co­vered up to a ma­xi­mum of 100 eu­ros aga­inst a re­ceipt from an in­stru­ment ma­ker's work­shop or mu­sic shop.

Open to stu­dents of Ar­tis­tic Trai­ning in Mu­sic (KAM) or Ar­tis­tic In­stru­men­tal Trai­ning and te­a­cher trai­ning cour­ses.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: Ap­pli­ca­ti­ons can be sub­mit­ted at any time, the­re are no dead­lines. Stu­dents can ap­p­ly once per se­mes­ter.

Sus­taina­bi­li­ty Fund

HfMDK stu­dents can ap­p­ly for ma­te­ri­al re­sour­ces from the HfMDK Sus­taina­bi­li­ty De­part­ment­'s Sus­taina­bi­li­ty Fund, which is en­do­wed with 5,000 eu­ros an­nu­al­ly, for pro­jects that deal with the di­ver­se to­pics of sus­taina­bi­li­ty in an ar­tis­tic or pe­dago­gi­cal-ar­tis­tic way. It does not mat­ter whe­ther the ar­tis­tic fo­cus is on the con­se­quen­ces of cli­ma­te ch­an­ge, bio­di­ver­si­ty, is­sues of jus­ti­ce or equal op­por­tu­ni­ties. Stu­dents are wel­co­me to use the 17 glo­bal sus­taina­bi­li­ty goals as a gui­de.

Open to stu­dents of all de­gree pro­grams.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: Ap­pli­ca­ti­ons can be sub­mit­ted at any time. The call for ap­pli­ca­ti­ons for this year runs un­til 01.10.2025. The pro­jects ap­plied for must be im­ple­men­ted and com­ple­ted by 31.12.2025.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON and INFO: To ap­p­ly, plea­se cont­act nach­hal­tig­keits­re­fe­rat@orga.hfmdk-frank­furt.de for an in­ter­view

Dance Foun­da­ti­on

Dance pro­fes­sio­nals in tran­si­ti­on to a new pro­fes­si­on af­ter an ac­ti­ve dance care­er can ap­p­ly to the Dance Foun­da­ti­on for a one-off grant (e.g. for tui­ti­on fees, cour­se fees or tra­vel ex­pen­ses).

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 30.06.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Aca­de­my Mu­sic Thea­ter To­day

Every year, the Deut­sche Bank Foun­da­ti­on awards 15 scho­lar­ships for in­ter­na­tio­nal stu­dents and young in­ter­na­tio­nal pro­fes­sio­nals in the fields of stage and/or cos­tu­me de­sign, con­duc­ting, dra­ma­tur­gy, com­po­si­ti­on, cul­tu­ral ma­nage­ment, li­bret­to/text and di­rec­ting in the field of mu­sic thea­ter/ope­ra. Du­ring the two-year scho­lar­ship pro­gram, the par­ti­ci­pan­ts must have Eu­ro­pe as their place of work and re­si­dence. A very good know­ledge of the Ger­man lan­guage is re­qui­red. Age li­mit: 32 ye­ars (ex­cep­ti­ons see call for ap­pli­ca­ti­ons).

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 01.05.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Ger­man Foun­da­ti­on for Mu­si­cal Life: Carl-Heinz Il­lies Scho­lar­ship

The Carl-Heinz Il­lies Scho­lar­ship is a grant spe­ci­fi­cal­ly for young pia­nists up to the age of 23. It is in­ten­ded to enable mu­si­ci­ans to at­tend mas­ter clas­ses and com­pe­ti­ti­ons ab­road right from the start of their trai­ning.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 29.04.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Mu­sic spon­sor­ship Klaus Thimm

For solo ar­tists and mu­sic groups of all gen­res up to the age of 30. Fun­ding for mu­si­cal in­stru­ments, fur­ther mu­si­cal trai­ning or pro­jects is pos­si­ble.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 30.06.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Cu­sa­nus-Werk

Scho­lar­ships for stu­dents at mu­sic uni­ver­si­ties.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 01.08.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Hans and Eu­ge­nia Jüt­ting Foun­da­ti­on: Scho­lar­ships Rock, Pop, Jazz

One-off grants for par­ti­cu­lar­ly ta­len­ted young Ger­man and Po­lish ar­tists in the field of po­pu­lar mu­sic. Ca­te­go­ries 2025: Jazz, Rock/Pop, Rap/Hip­Hop, Sin­ger/Song­wri­ter (in­clu­ding Folk-Rock). Plea­se also note the com­pe­ti­ti­on con­di­ti­ons.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 31.08.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Hans and Eu­ge­nia Jüt­ting Foun­da­ti­on: Scho­lar­ships for clas­si­cal mu­sic

One-off grants for par­ti­cu­lar­ly ta­len­ted young Ger­man and Po­lish ar­tists in the field of clas­si­cal mu­sic. Ca­te­go­ries 2025: pia­no duo (four-han­ded), voice, trumpet, oboe, re­cor­der

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 15.10.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Os­car and Vera Rit­ter Foun­da­ti­on

The Os­car and Vera Rit­ter Foun­da­ti­on sup­ports and chal­lenges high­ly ta­len­ted young ar­tists in their mu­si­cal de­ve­lo­p­ment. The foun­da­ti­on's work fo­cu­ses on young peo­p­le who, for ex­am­p­le, re­cei­ve scho­lar­ships or can gain stage ex­pe­ri­ence at con­cert per­for­man­ces. Fur­ther in­for­ma­ti­on on the in­di­vi­du­al scho­lar­ships can be found via the link be­low.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: Ap­pli­ca­ti­ons can be sub­mit­ted at any time, the­re are no fi­xed ap­pli­ca­ti­on dead­lines for new ap­pli­ca­ti­ons.

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

COM­PE­TI­TI­ON GRANTS

In­ter­na­tio­nal Jan Koet­sier Com­pe­ti­ti­on for Brass Cham­ber Mu­sic

The Jan Koet­sier Com­pe­ti­ti­on for Brass Cham­ber Mu­sic is a joint event of the Jan Koet­sier Foun­da­ti­on Mu­nich and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts Mu­nich. The com­pe­ti­ti­on ta­kes place every two ye­ars and is open to dif­fe­rent brass en­sem­bles. Fur­ther in­for­ma­ti­on can be found here and un­der the de­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on be­low.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 22.06.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

In­ter­na­tio­nal Al­bert Schweit­zer Or­gan Com­pe­ti­ti­on 2025

Re­per­toire/pro­gram re­qui­re­ments see web­site. The com­pe­ti­ti­on is open to or­ga­nists of any na­tio­na­li­ty born af­ter 31.12.1991.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 01.05.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Otto Dit­scher Art Pri­ze 2026

The Otto Dit­scher Art Pri­ze 2026 is a com­po­si­ti­on com­pe­ti­ti­on de­di­ca­ted to the pro­mo­ti­on of com­po­si­ti­ons for young mu­si­ci­ans.
Par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in the com­pe­ti­ti­on is by sub­mit­ting two scores (incl. sound file) of a com­po­si­ti­on. The pri­ze is en­do­wed with €5,000. If a pri­ze is award­ed, the in­di­vi­du­al parts must also be sub­mit­ted. The com­pe­ti­ti­on is open to com­po­sers who have a strong con­nec­tion to the Rhi­ne-Ne­ckar me­tro­po­li­tan re­gi­on and/or the sta­te of Rhi­ne­land-Pa­la­ti­na­te, i.e. who live here, grew up here or were edu­ca­ted here.
The­re is no age rest­ric­tion.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 31.08.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Fried­rich Ebert Foun­da­ti­on

Scho­lar­ships for ex­cep­tio­nal­ly ta­len­ted stu­dents and doc­to­ral can­di­da­tes of all di­sci­pli­nes from Ger­ma­ny and ab­road who are com­mit­ted to so­cial de­mo­cra­tic va­lues.

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Fried­rich Nau­mann Foun­da­ti­on for Free­dom

Scho­lar­ships for good to very good stu­dents and doc­to­ral can­di­da­tes from all di­sci­pli­nes who ac­tively sup­port li­be­ral va­lues and an open so­cie­ty.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 30.04.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Bo­wel Di­se­a­se Foun­da­ti­on

Scho­lar­ships for stu­dents with in­testi­nal di­se­a­ses.
Age li­mit: 35 ye­ars

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 30.04.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Ernst Lud­wig Ehr­lich Stu­dy Foun­da­ti­on (ELES)

Scho­lar­ships for Je­wish stu­dents.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: April 30, 2025, 4:00 p.m

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Ad­vance­ment Scho­lar­ship

Stu­dy sup­port for ex­pe­ri­en­ced pro­fes­sio­nals

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 09.06.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Evan­ge­li­sches Stu­di­en­werk Vil­ligst

Scho­lar­ships for stu­dents who be­long to a Pro­tes­tant church

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 15.07.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

"Me­mo­ry for Me­lo­dies". Me­lo­dy me­mo­ry test at the Max Planck In­sti­tu­te for Em­pi­ri­cal Aes­the­tics

The Max Planck In­sti­tu­te for Em­pi­ri­cal Aes­the­tics is once aga­in of­fe­ring ex­ci­ting stu­dies and tests in April. As part of the in­iti­al ques­ti­on "Can mu­si­ci­ans re­al­ly re­mem­ber mu­sic bet­ter than non-mu­si­ci­ans?", pro­fes­sio­nal mu­si­ci­ans and mu­si­ci­ans in trai­ning are be­ing sought to test their me­lo­dic me­mo­ry in a 45-mi­nu­te test. The test will take place in the In­sti­tu­te's la­bo­ra­to­ry and you will re­cei­ve a small pay­ment in re­turn for your par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on.

• In­for­ma­ti­on and re­gis­tra­ti­on here
• You can find more ex­ci­ting tests and stu­dies to brow­se th­rough here

Im­puls neue Mu­sik

Im­puls neue Mu­sik pro­mo­tes mu­sic pro­jects that shape the ex­ch­an­ge bet­ween the Ger­man-spea­king and French-spea­king lin­gu­istic and cul­tu­ral are­as with new ide­as and net­work the con­tem­po­ra­ry mu­sic sce­nes in Ger­ma­ny, France, Switz­er­land and Lu­xem­bourg. We are loo­king for com­po­sers, mu­si­ci­ans, sound ar­tists, per­for­mers and or­ga­ni­zers who con­tri­bu­te to the en­rich­ment of ar­tis­tic ex­ch­an­ge bet­ween the four count­ries. Fun­ding is available for con­certs and mu­sic thea­ter pro­duc­tions, se­ries or fes­ti­vals, edu­ca­tio­nal pro­jects and sound art.

AP­PLI­CA­TI­ON DEAD­LINE: 01.05.2025

• De­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on & ap­pli­ca­ti­on

Cul­tu­ral coun­sel­ing Hes­sen

The LKB Hes­sen of­fers cul­tu­ral pro­fes­sio­nals and ac­tors in cul­tu­ral edu­ca­ti­on in Hes­sen cont­act points for in­di­vi­du­al ques­ti­ons on fi­nan­cial sup­port and co­ope­ra­ti­on and pro­vi­des re­fer­rals to ex­perts on to­pics such as en­er­gy checks, sus­taina­bi­li­ty, busi­ness start-ups, or­ga­niza­tio­nal de­ve­lo­p­ment, ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty and in­clu­si­on or tax and le­gal is­sues.

Cul­tu­re pass

Kul­tur für ALLE e.V. is­sues the Kul­tur­pass, which of­fers hea­vi­ly dis­coun­ted ad­mis­si­on to num­erous cul­tu­ral events. It cos­ts a sym­bo­lic 1 euro, is va­lid for one year and must then be ap­plied for aga­in. Eli­gi­ble ap­pli­cants in­clude stu­dents who re­cei­ve sup­port un­der the Fe­de­ral Trai­ning As­sis­tance Act (BAföG) and re­fu­gee stu­dents.

Ein Zeh­ner bis 25

This sea­son, the Alte Oper is once aga­in of­fe­ring stu­dents the op­por­tu­ni­ty to purcha­se ti­ckets at a re­du­ced pri­ce.

Stu­dents wan­ted as su­per­vi­sors for va­ca­ti­on camp

The or­ga­niza­ti­on Bä­ren­stark is loo­king for stu­dents as ca­rers for child­ren with chro­ni­cal­ly ill or di­s­ab­led siblings for a 2-week ho­li­day camp in the pe­ri­od 27.07. - 10.08.2025. Fur­ther in­for­ma­ti­on can be found in the down­load at­tach­ment.