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A full-time undergraduate student in the College of Music who has completed at least 24 credit hours of course work by the end of the spring semester on the Boulder campus (excluding continuing education), and who earned a semester grade point average of at least 3.700, will be included in the college dean’s honor roll for that semester. Notation of the “Dean’s Honor Roll” is also listed in the Honors Convocation Program.

Students achieving a cumulative GPA of 3.700–3.790 (honors), 3.800–3.890 (high honors), and 3.900–4.000 (highest honors) are recognized at commencement.

A number of scholarships and awards are designed specifically for students in the College of Music (see below). Undergraduate music majors are eligible for scholarships or renewal of their scholarships as long as they make satisfactory musical progress in their major as determined by the faculty in jury exams and auditions, and maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.000.

Graduate students must enroll as full-time students, maintaining a 3.000 GPA, and make adequate progress toward their degrees. The college offers approximately 70 graduate assistantships as well as graduate fellowships, and a variety of endowed scholarships for graduate students (included below.)

Nancy and Ted Anderson Music Awards
Beckie Reeder Arnold Piano Scholarship
Joyce Mata Ashley Scholarship Fund
The Bagley Prize

Frank W. Baird Trumpet Scholarship
John W. (Jack) Bartram Memorial Scholarship
Bettina Baruch Foundation Scholarship for Winds
Virginia Blake Becker Flute Scholarship
Darrell and Lauren Boyle Music Theatre Scholarship
Dewitt and Billie Brennan Music Fund
Charles Byers Choral Music Education Scholarship
Rebecca Beardmore Chavez Scholarship Fund
William Clendenin Music History Scholarship
Berton Coffin Scholarships in Voice
Arline P. Cohen Scholarship
Walter and Jenny Kate Collins Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Choral Studies
Sue Conrad and C. Dickson Titus Memorial Fund
Viola Vestal Coulter Foundation Voice Scholarship in Honor of Harold A. Norblom
Wilma and Perry Louis Cunningham Scholarship in Voice
Frank and Gina Day Graduate Performance Fellowship
Denver Lyric Opera Guild Scholarship
Barbara M. Doscher Memorial Voice Scholarship
Stephen Robert Dudley Scholarship for Horn
Edith E. Edwards Scholarship in Music
Cecil Effinger Fellowship in Composition
Dorothea Eldridge Music Fund
Ewing Memorial Music Scholarship
Robert R. Fink Undergraduate Scholarship in Music Theory
Wallace F. Fiske Performance Awards
James M. Grossi Composition Scholarship
Charles Haertling Piano Scholarship
Jessie and Albert Henry Memorial Scholarship
Everett J. Hilty Carillon Fellowship

Everett J. Hilty, Sr. Fund
Bernice Holic Piano Scholarship
Honors String Quartet Awards
Warner and Norma Imig Choral Conducting Scholarship
Dennis Jackson Opera Scholarship
Freelyn Jeffers Award in Choral Conducting
Dale R. Johnson Opera Scholarship
Donald L. & Maria A. Johnson Music Awards
Keyboard Honors Awards
Denés Koromzay String Chamber Music Award
George Lynn Memorial Scholarship
Scott Robert McBurney Memorial Scholarship in Piano
McDowell Opera Endowment
Robert K. McIntosh Fund for Music Instruction for Disadvantaged Children
Claudia Boettcher Merthan Vocal Scholarship
Trudi Mielziner Graduate Opera Scholarship
Mile High Band Music Education Scholarship
Musicology Academic Achievement Award
Music Teachers National Association STAR Award
Noris Graduate Piano Award
O’Neal Taniguchi Music Entrepreneurship Fund
Gabor Ormai String Scholarship
Phyliss and Paul Parmelee Memorial Piano Scholarship
Denby & Georgia L. Peebles Memorial Fund
Peercy-Roth Memorial Scholarship
John N. Parsons Musicology Fund
Theodore Presser Academic/Performance Award
Gregory Philip Ranno Excellence in Music Scholarship
Charlotte Orr Reid Memorial Voice Scholarship
Anthony and Dorothy Riddle Lyric Theatre Performance Prize
Walter Orr Roberts Music Scholarship

William Earl Rose, Sr. Scholarship Fund
Robin Sawhill Award for Excellence in Piano Performance
Charles Sawtelle Memorial Music Scholarship in Jazz Studies
Virginia Schwatel Fund for Music Education
Schultz/Finlay Marching Band Endowed Scholarship
Fay Shwayder String Quartet Awards
Martha & Alan Stormo Music Scholarship for Cello
Eric Sutton Skinner Memorial Scholarship in Percussion
Pete Smythe AMRC Scholarship Fund
Galen and Ada Belle Files Spencer Fellowship in Voice
Starling Foundation Graduate Violin Award
Peter and Julianne Steinhauer AMRC Scholarship in honor of Wayne Scott
Crick Streamer Memorial Scholarship
Beth Suitts CU Opera Endowment
Takács Scholarship Endowment in Memory of Fay Shwayder
Takács Society String Scholarship
Jean L. and Jack C. Thompson Jazz Endowment Fund
Louise Touhy Music Scholarship
Gloria and Martin Trotsky Music Scholarships
Howard B. Waltz Composition Scholarship
Howard B. Waltz Music Scholarship
Howard B. Waltz Piano Scholarship
Judith Richardson Waterman Choral Music Education Scholarships
Katherine Anne Suber Whiton Memorial Scholarship in String Bass
Lynn Whitten Fellowship in Graduate Choral Conducting
Brownlow V. Wilson Music Education Scholarship
Wright Endowment for Colorado Light Opera
Paula Marie and H. Rolan Zick Endowment