USC student and faculty resources
Performance Psychology webinars with Dr. Todd Kays.
Office of Fellowships and Scholars programs
Find help identifying and applying for fellowships; Fulbrights and more.
Research Opportunity Program
Provides funding for faculty research, including projects in the arts.
Undergraduate Research
Information about Magellan Scholars and other opportunities available to undergraduate
students.
USC Career Center
An exceptionally comprehensive resource for career, internship, and job search information.
Specific links for music majors.
USC Study Abroad programs
Information about study broad programs is found here.
Local, state and regional resources
South Carolina Government
The official website of the State of South Carolina, this site provides up to date
information on the economic and cultural climate of South Carolina. This is a valuable
resource for anyone seeking funding or entrepreneurial opportunities in the state.
South Carolina State Library
This site provides a link to the South Carolina Foundation Directory as well as other
available sources for funding in the state.
South Carolina Arts Commission
Grants, workshops, and events of interest.
Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties
Centralized resource for the arts community. Provides leadership, funding and business
expertise to artists and arts organizations, and offers a single source of arts-related
information to patrons and media.
Southern Arts Federation
Resources and support for regional arts.
Funding databases
Grants.Gov
This is an online database containing information on more than 900 federal grant
programs.
Guidestar
Guidestar allows you to search more than 1 million U.S. nonprofits by subject, category,
keyword, state, and nonprofit type to identify local or state organizations.
Guide to Funding Resources
This guide gives general information on developing and searching for funding opportunities.
It details the funding process and provides clear information for personal searches
Michigan State University site
Contains a music grant database that lists many funding sources
New York Foundation for the Arts
Festivals and competitions
Aspen Music Festival, Colorado
The Aspen Music Festival is summer program that offers a wide variety of programs
of performance and study. The USC School of Music offers the Pat Lampton scholarship,
a $1000 award to offset any expenses incurred by the student.
Baroque Performance Institute, Ohio
The Baroque Performance Institute gives musicians the opportunity to perform and
study Baroque era performance and compositional techniques.
Brevard Music Festival, North Carolina
The Brevard Music Center provides a 7-week summer festival showcasing 3 orchestras
and over 80 different concerts.
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, California
The Cabrillo Festival allows emerging composers and conductors the opportunity to
collaborate in front of a renowned orchestra as well as superb teachers and mentors.
Conductors Institute of South Carolina, South Carolina
A fifteen-day program, the Conductors Institute provides the opportunity to conduct
professional level musicians on a variety of selected literature.
Eastern Music festival
Summer festival in North Carolina
Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival
Summer festival in Vermont
Institute Musical de Provence, France
This festival provides opportunities for conducting and orchestral students.
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Michigan
Interlochen Center for the Arts provides a summer camp for visual and performing
arts students. Summer employment as counselors is available. There are many clinics
for those over the age of 18 as well.
Masa Mizuno's Music Directory
A good list of piano and string competitions; also has a directory of summer festivals
Pacific Music Festival, Japan
The Pacific Music Festival (PMF), founded in 1990 by the premier, conductor, composer
and educator of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), is an international
educational music festival.
Spoleto, USA
Located in Charleston, South Carolina, the Spoleto Festival offers numerous performance
and concert opportunities to the serious musician or avid concert attendee.
Tanglewood Music Center, Massachusetts
The Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship Program is the Boston Symphony Orchestra's
summer academy for advanced musical study. The TMC offers an intensive schedule of
study and performance for emerging professional instrumentalists, singers, conductors,
and composers who have completed most of their formal training in music.
Texas Music Festival, TX
The mission of the Texas Music Festival is to prepare college-aged and young professional
musicians for careers in music through a four-week intensive summer orchestral training
program. Students learn and array of orchestral and chamber music as well are as exposed
to faculty and guest artists.
Organizations
Instrumental organizations:
American Viola Society
Society for violists.
Cello Society
The Internet Cello Society, an international cyber-community of cellists, seeks to
advance the knowledge and joy of cello playing around the world. We welcome cello
enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels.
International Clarinet Association (ICA)
The International Clarinet Association is a community of clarinetists and clarinet
enthusiasts.
International Double Reed Society (IDRS)
The International Double Reed Society (IDRS) is a world-wide organization of double
reed (oboe and bassoon family) players, instrument manufacturers and enthusiasts.
International Horn Society (IHS)
The International Horn Society is an organization dedicated to performance, teaching,
composition, research, and the preservation and promotion of the horn as a musical
instrument.
International Society for Bassists (ISB)
The ISB is a forum for communication among bassists throughout the world and across
a wide variety of musical styles.
International Trombone Society (ITS)
The International Trombone Association is the largest association of trombonists
with 4500 members from 65 countries.
International Trumpet Guild (ITG)
The International Trumpet Guild promotes communication among trumpet players around
the world and to seeks to improve the artistic level of performance, teaching, and
literature associated with the trumpet.
International Tuba/Euphonium Association (ITEA)
Officially founded in 1973 as the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association, ITEA
is dedicated to promoting and advancing the tuba and euphonium instruments..
North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA)
The North American Saxophone Alliance is an organization made up of individuals who
share a common interest in the saxophone.
National Flute Association (NFA)
The National Flute Association, a not for profit institution, is the largest flute
organization in the world. It was founded to encourage a higher standard of artistic
excellence for the flute, its performers, and its literature.
Percussive Arts Society (PAS)
The Percussive Arts Society is the world’s largest percussion organization and is
considered the central source for information and networking for percussionists and
drummers of all ages.
Piano Pedagogy Online Forum
Piano Pedagogy Forum has published 23 issues with participation from over 100 writers
from over 100 different colleges/universities throughout the USA and internationally.
Violin Society of America (VSA)
The Violin Society Of America reflects a broad range of interests and concerns of
those interested in violins and the art of making instruments and bows of the violin
family.
Professional organizations:
American Bandmasters Association (ABA)
The American Bandmasters Association, founded in 1929, recognizes outstanding achievement
on the part of concert band conductors and composers.
American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
The American Choral Directors Association is a nonprofit music-education organization
whose central purpose is to promote excellence in choral music through performance,
composition, publication, research, and teaching.
American Musicological Society (AMS)
American Orff-Schulwerk Association
The American Orff-Schulwerk Association is a professional organization dedicated to
the creative teaching approach developed by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman.
American String Teachers Association
The American String Teachers Association, is a membership organization for string
and orchestra teachers and players, helping them to develop and refine their careers.
American Society for Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation
College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA)
CBDNA is an organization of professionals from comprehensive research universities,
state and private universities, and music conservatories.
College Music Society (CMS)
A consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars
interested in all disciplines of music, the CMS addresses concerns facing music in
higher education. Publishes a job vacancy list.
Midwest Clinic
The Midwest Clinic provides outstanding professional development opportunities for
instrumental music educators of all levels.
Music Educators National Conference (MENC)
MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the world’s largest arts education
organization.
Music Teachers National Association (MTNA)
The mission of Music Teachers National Association is to advance the value of music
study and music making to society and to support the professionalism of music teachers.
Sponsors annual solo and chamber music competitions at all levels.
National Band Association (NBA)
The National Band Association is the largest band directors’ professional organization
in the world. It was organized for the purpose of promoting the musical and educational
significance of bands and is dedicated to the attainment of a high level of excellence
for bands and band music.
Conductors Guild (NCG)
The Conductors Guild is the only music service organization devoted exclusively to
the advancement of the art of conducting and to serving the artistic and professional
needs of conductors.
National Orchestral Association (NOA)
The National Orchestral Association was founded in 1930. Its early mission was to
train American orchestra musicians in orchestral techniques and repertoire, providing
them with the necessary experience and level of expertise to enter professional orchestra
careers.
Polyphonic.org
Orchestra musician’s forum with lots of useful information
South Carolina Music Educators Association (SCMEA)
The South Carolina Music Educators Association is a federated state association of
the Music Educators National Conference.
South Carolina Band Link
Information about South Carolina bands, all-state, events, and competitions.
The National String Project Consortium (NSPC)
A coalition of String Project sites based at colleges and universities across the
United States. The NSPC is dedicated to increasing the number of children playing
stringed instruments, and addressing the critical shortage of string teachers in the
United States.
Greek Organizations:
Delta Omicron
The Mission of Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity is to promote and support
excellence in music and musicianship.
Phi Mu Alpha
Music fraternity dedicated to the development of fraternal spirit; the mutual welfare
and brotherhood of musical students; the advancement of music in America and a loyalty
to the Alma Mater.
Sigma Alpha Iota
Sigma Alpha Iota is a national professional women’s fraternity operating for the
advancement of women in music.
Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta Sigma
This site acts as the main hub for all things Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.
These two Honorary Band organizations exist to serve college and university bands
through their unique approach to service.
Tau Beta Sigma-Epsilon Alpha
The Epsilon Alpha chapter of Tau Beta Sigma has been serving the University of South
Carolina Bands for nearly 40 years. A co-ed service organization, Epsilon Alpha has
strived to advance women in the band profession and recognize Outstanding Music, Service,
and Leadership on the Carolina Campus and within the USC Band Program.
Kappa Kappa Psi-Zeta Chi
The Zeta Chi chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi has been serving the University of South
Carolina and the USC Band Program for over 30 years with the intention of advancing
music through service to the College and University bands.
Sigma Alpha Iota-Theta Chi
The Theta Chi Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota has been operating on the University of
South Carolina Campus for over 10 years. Their purposes are to advance women in the
world of music through philanthropic service.
Other sites of interest and fun
Alarm Will Sound
Innovative new music group
Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise
Books, articles and a blog by the music critic of The New Yorker
Artists House A learning resource for music and the music business
artistShare
Sponsors projects that let fans to show appreciation for their favorite artists by
funding their recording projects in exchange for access to the creative process,
Bang on a Can
New music group based in New York City
Chamber Music Network
A non-profit organization that facilitates informal music-making by people of all
ages and nationalities, from beginners to professionals.
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Log and more from jazz composer Darcy James Argue
Institute for Music Leadership
Eastman School of Music’s leadership institute
MyAuditions.com
Information on auditions and job openings
New Music Collective
A new music group based in Charleston, South Carolina that does lots of interesting
collaborations with visual artists.
The Savvy Musician
Great site with loads of helpful information and links
Think Denk
Interesting and fun blog by concert pianist Jeremy Denk