{"id":669,"date":"2025-12-04T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/bmi-student-composer-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:23:18","slug":"bmi-composer-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/bmi-composer-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"BMI Composer Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Amount: <\/strong> $20,000.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>About: <\/strong><br \/>\n The BMI Composer Awards is a competition open to student composers who study music under a recognized and established teacher. In order to enter the competition, students must anonymously submit an unpublished original composition. A total of $20,000 is awarded, and individual awards range from $500 to $5,000. Compositions are judged according to the formal content of the composition, the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic idioms, the instrumentation, orchestration, and vocal writing, and the age of the composer at the time of the completion of the manuscript.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Eligible Grade Levels:<\/strong> No grade level requirement\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Eligible Majors:<\/strong> Music\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Residency Requirement:<\/strong> No residency requirement\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Minimum GPA:<\/strong> No GPA requirement\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Deadline:<\/strong> <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Application is currently closed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Please note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor&#8217;s website for up-to-date deadlines.\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/bmifoundation.org\/programs\/info\/bmi_student_composer_awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Scholarship<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amount: $20,000. 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