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Program Benefits

The Kenan Music Scholarship is the premier scholarship of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music, awarded to four incoming students each year. This generous scholarship offers:

• a four-year full-tuition scholarship (including student fees, room, and board)

• additional financial support for musical enrichment activities (e.g. summer programs, masterclasses, travel, research)

• workshops and masterclasses with internationally renowned performers (recent Kenan Program guest artists include Alice Giles, Sherrill Milnes, Laurie Smukler, Robert McDonald, Frederica von Stade, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Maestro Gerard Schwarz)

• mentoring from distinguished Department of Music faculty and a dedicated Kenan Music Scholars faculty advisor

• free attendance at world-class performances through Carolina Performing Arts (2019-20 performances include soprano Golda Schultz, the Sarod Trilogy, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.)

• opportunity to combine musical studies with coursework (or a second major) in one of the nation’s most prestigious research universities