BURSARIES

2008

MUSIC:

The Festival awards bursaries to those performers who in the opinion of the Festival Committee have shown potential and can most benefit from further tuition and experience.

The bursaries are awarded to performers between the ages of 11 and 21 years to attend the residential European Youth Summer Music Orchestral and Vocal Course held at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. The course provides tuition by world renowned tutors culminating in a concert at the end of the week. There is a dedicated but relaxed atmosphere at the College with rehearsals and options morning and late afternoon and in between times, quite a wide range of sport and social events are on offer.

The number of bursaries awarded depends on Festival sponsorship received. This year we were able to award:

                 Aprille Bonner Bursary (Awarded by The Federation in memory of the late Aprille Bonner, Vice Chairman,
                                                                                          jointly funded by The International and British Federation of Festivals
                                                                                           and Lincoln Music and Drama Festival)

                 Music:Link Bursaries (With many thanks to Music:Link who sponsored two Bursaries)

                 Rose Bursary (With many thanks to the Rose family who have been associated with music in Lincoln for
                                                              very many years and who sponsor this annual bursary).

DRAMA:

QIPS, (Quality In Performance and Speech), is a new Summer School initiative to be launched next year (2009) by The International and British Federation of Festivals in which we hope to be in a position to participate.