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Choral Scholarship
As part of the launch of our brand new BA (Hons) Music course , we are delighted to announce our Choral Scholarship for 2020.
This scholarship offers a unique opportunity to work with professional musicians at St Nicholas Cathedral in Newcastle, and sing in the newly formed University Cathedral Choir.
At Northumbria we believe in supporting you to achieve your future goals. By bringing together our inspiring courses, innovative staff and academically gifted students, like yourself, we can tackle the challenges of the world to create a better future and #TakeOnTomorrow.
Successful students of the Choral Scholarship will receive £700 cash payment. All eligible full-time self-funded students will be considered.
If you are passionate about music and eager to take an active role in the music environment at Northumbria, then apply today for the Choral Scholarship.
Apply now. Applications close at 16:00 on 31 July 2020
Terms and conditions
To be eligible for the Choral Scholarship you must:
- Be a UK/EU/Home student
- Have applied for a full-time undergraduate course at the Newcastle upon Tyne campus, starting in September 2020
- Choose Northumbria as your firm choice by 04 June 2020
- Register with Student Finance England (SFE), Student Finance Wales (SFW) or Student Finance Northern Ireland (SFNI) as they administer the payment of the academic scholarship on behalf of the University. Scottish students must make an application to the Students Award Agency for Scotland (SAAS) for maintenance funding, which will enable SAAS to pay the student’s academic scholarship on behalf of the University.
- Alternatively, a Scottish student who does not wish to apply to SAAS for maintenance funding will need to provide bank details to the University in order for an individual payment for the academic scholarship can be made. Scottish students who have not applied to SAAS for maintenance funding, but who are identified for a scholarship will be contacted by the University in the first semester about the payment of their scholarship. Payment will be made direct to your bank account.
Eligible courses
- All full-time undergraduate courses, studied at the Newcastle upon Tyne campus and Coach Lane campus
Important Information
Applicants should also note:
- Successful students are required to sing in the Cathedral University Choir, and attend rehearsals at St Nicholas Cathedral as follows: Tuesdays from 16:45 – 19:30, Wednesdays 13:00 – 14:00 and another afternoon (to be determined) from 16:45 – 18:00 during University term-time
- Attendance at rehearsals is mandatory and progress will be monitored; should attendance and/or progress be unsatisfactory, the scholarship will be rescinded
- Successful students can withdraw from the Choral Scholarship at any time, however any unpaid monies would not be paid
- Successful students must enrol by 02 October 2020 to receive the scholarship
- The Choral Scholarship is a cash payment
- Payments will be made as 25% in November, 25% in February, and 50% in May
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Payment is made in each year of Undergraduate study, dependent on progression to the next year and adhering to scholarship terms and conditions
- If you defer your place and/or leave your course before the full scholarship amount is paid, the remaining monies will not be paid; however the University will not usually seek to claim back any of the scholarship money already paid
- If you have outstanding debt with the University (for example, unpaid tuition fees or accommodation), the scholarship payment will be withheld until the debt is cleared
- Northumbria University reserves the right to withdraw this scheme at any point
- The University’s decision is final and cannot be challenged; there is no right of appeal
Selection Process
- There is a competitive selection process for this scholarship scheme. Applicants need to apply via online written application; shortlisted applicants will then need to attend a singing audition with Cathedral and Northumbria University representatives, on campus at Northumbria University. The audition will involve the performance of one piece of music, or a section from a longer work, lasting between 4 and 8 minutes (own choice), sight-reading and a voice test
- Applicants are required, in no more than 1500 characters, to describe their singing experience to date and how they would contribute to vocal and choral music-making at Northumbria University and St Nicholas Cathedral
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