Scholarships for Students

Scholarship applications for 2018 are now closed. This page will be updated when the 2019 application process is in place.

2018 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION PROCESS

Please read the following instructions carefully and follow everything exactly! We reserve the right to reject any applications which do not follow these instructions to the letter! If you have any questions, please email info@horncamp.org for assistance.

*If you are planning on attending KBHC with or without a scholarship, please use the regular application process and send us your deposit check in addition to applying for the scholarship. If you win a scholarship, your deposit will be refunded. A scholarship application will not automatically reserve you a place at camp and we usually fill up in early Spring.

All submissions will be done electronically. For the playing portion of the application, you must record video of the applicant playing the material and upload it to YouTube. The video must show the applicant playing their instrument. Still images or a black screen are not acceptable. The application process consists of 6 parts. Send one email with the 1st 3 attachments and a link to your YouTube audition. Recommendation forms must be be emailed separately by the recommenders. Scholarship Application materials must be received by email prior to April 1, 2018. Applicants will be notified of the judges’ decisions by May 1, 2018.

1. Application form Note that you can type directly into this form and save it to be attached to your email.
2. Essay written by you describing why you are applying for a scholarship, how this scholarship relates to your career objectives and why you need financial assistance to attend KBHC. One page, 200 words minimum (attached as a PDF document)
3. Your current musical resume (attached as a PDF document)
4. Link to your YouTube video audition
5. Recommendation form filled out by your current horn teacher emailed directly from them.
6. Recommendation form filled out by one other unrelated person who knows you and your musical background well, emailed directly from them.

All materials should be emailed to auditions@horncamp.org

We reserve the right to reject any application which is missing material or is of poor audio quality.

YOUTUBE APPLICATION MATERIALS

For your YouTube video audition, please state your name, the current date and whether you are auditioning as a high school, undergraduate or graduate student, then play all of the materials for your category below, in order without any edits between selections. If you are playing with an accompanist or ensemble for the solo works, you may submit those recordings as separate YouTube links. You may use our music or your own editions for any of these works. Save your video as an unlisted video. When you are ready, include the link to this video in your email to us along with the other materials.

High School Selections

First movement exposition and development to one of the three concertos listed below by W.A. Mozart. You may use piano, band, orchestra, electronic accompaniment or play unaccompanied. Also JF Gallay Etude in its entirety.

Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, K. 417 Exposition and Development
Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, K. 447 Exposition and Development
Concerto No. 4 in E-flat, K. 495 Exposition and Development

J.F. Gallay, Preludes Opus 27, No. 26 in its entirety.

Undergraduate Selections

First movement exposition and development to one of the three concertos listed below by W.A. Mozart OR Dukas Villanelle beginning to measure 117. You may use piano, band, orchestra, electronic accompaniment or play unaccompanied. Also Maxime-Alphonse Book 5 No. 3 in its entirety and listed excerpts.

MozartConcerto No. 2 in E-flat, K. 417 Exposition and Development
Mozart Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, K. 447 Exposition and Development
Mozart Concerto No. 4 in E-flat, K. 495 Exposition and Development
Dukas Villanelle Beginning through measure 117

Maxime-Alphonse Book 5 No. 3 in its entirety

Orchestral Excerpts listed below. Download excerpts with this link:

1. Horn 1 solo from Brahms "Symphony 1" movement 2 in E
2. Low horn tutti from Shostakovich "Symphony 5"
3. Horn 1 Opening of "Till Eulenspiegel"

Graduate Selections

First movement exposition and development to one of the three concertos listed below by W.A. Mozart OR Strauss Horn Concerto 1 Movement 1 OR Bozza's "En Foret" opening to figure 6. You may use piano, band, orchestra, electronic accompaniment or play unaccompanied. Also Bitsch Etude No. 5 in its entirety and listed excerpts.

Mozart Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, K. 417 Exposition and Development
Mozart Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, K. 447 Exposition and Development
Mozart Concerto No. 4 in E-flat, K. 495 Exposition and Development
Strauss Concerto No. 1 mvt 1
Bozza En Foret

Douze Etudes, Etude No. 5, by M. Bitsch in its entirety

Orchestral Excerpts listed below. Download excerpts with this link:

1. Horn 1 LV Beethoven's "Sym 7” opening
2. Low horn tutti from Shostakovich Symphony 5
3. Horn 2 R. Strauss' "Don Quixote", Var. 8
4. Horn 1 Opening calls of R. Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel”
5. Horn 1 of Tchaikovsky’s "Sym 2 Little Russian” opening

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For help setting up a YouTube account, please see this page.

For help with selecting and using recording equipment, please see this page

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SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION

Cormont Music, the New Hampshire non profit corporation founded in 1997 by Kendall Betts to parent KBHC, was granted full tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service in 1999 and is permitted by law to accept tax-deductible donations.  This has resulted in the creation of the KBHC Scholarship Fund.  Since the fund's inception, more than 140 students have received full tuition scholarships to KBHC.

The purpose of the scholarships is to give an opportunity to participate at KBHC 2017 to promising, highly motivated, deserving horn students which they would not otherwise have.  To that end, horn students, age 14 and older as of June 9, 2018 who have not yet reached their 27th birthday by June 24, 2018, may apply for a scholarship valued at up to one full week of tuition, room and board at KBHC 2017: June 9 – 16 or June 17 – 24.  Applicants who are in high school at the present time must be scheduled to graduate in the classes of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 or 2022 and must be currently studying horn privately.  Adult applicants must be either full or part time students who are pursuing a post-secondary degree at the present time, or college graduates who are currently studying horn privately.  The recipients of a scholarship will be selected on the basis of performance ability, personal motivation and character, a demonstrated need for financial aid in order to participate at KBHC.