Promising Artist Scholarship

The Promising Artist Scholarship is a scholarship awarded to undergraduate students with exceptional ability and/or skills that will significantly impact the Andrews University Department of Music. This scholarship is applied in addition to other financial awards, up to full tuition.

Students interested in this scholarship must:

Show exceptional performance abilities and satisfactory academic skills
Significantly impact our Department
Exhibit extraordinary aptitude in areas of strategic importance for the Department
Show interest and appreciation for the principles of Christian education provided by Andrews University
Demonstrate financial need
Be admitted to Andrews University and enroll as an undergraduate music major (BMus or BSM)

Steps for finishing your application before the January 31 deadline:

Apply and be admitted to Andrews University as a music major
Work with Student Financial Services to determine financial need after other awards (Andrews Partnership Scholarship, Pell Grant, etc.)
Complete the Scholarship Application Form
Complete the Scholarship Recommendation Form
Complete your Audition (info on audition requirements). To complete your Promising Artist application, upload your audition recordings and documents here (if you have trouble uploading, please contact Dr. Graves)

Some of our scholarship recipients share their experience:

"Promising Artist is a gift imparted by Andrews University that has driven me to work hard, discover my potential, embrace my passion and share with the world.”

Rachelle Gensolin,
BMus performance, piano

"The Promising Artist scholarship gave me a world of opportunities and the responsibility to make the best out of them. It gave me to confidence to dream big, shoot for the stars and become the outstanding professional I can grow into.”

Kenneth Andrade
2017 graduate, BA Music, trombone

"Promising Artist means the opportunity to be a good steward of my God-given talents by exploring and cultivating them, so that I may use them to bless others."

Colin West,
BMus performance, voice

"The Promising Artist scholarship means to me opportunity and responsibility: opportunity to learn, interact, and serve and responsibility to make the best of my talents."

Danya Wilson
BMus performance, violin