The University offers organ scholarships at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol Cathedral and St Paul's Church, Clifton.

There are also choral scholarships available at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol Cathedral, Clifton Cathedral, and St Paul's Church, Clifton, and the Lord Mayor's Chapel Choir covers singers' expenses.

These are open to all full-time undergraduate and postgraduate applicants and current students, whether or not you are studying for a Music degree. 

The scholarships available are:

• St Mary Redcliffe Church Organ Scholarship 
• St Mary Redcliffe Church Choral Scholarships
• Bristol Cathedral Organ Scholarship 
• Bristol Cathedral Choral Scholarships
• St Paul's Church Organ Scholarship
• St Paul’s Church Choral Scholarships
• Monica Wills Chapel Organ Scholarship
• Clifton Cathedral Choral Scholarships
• The Lord Mayor's Chapel Choir

Candidates for the scholarships should apply for University entrance through the normal UCAS channels. In addition, they should apply for Organ scholarships by 31 January for commencement of duties the following October and for Choral Scholarships once their place is confirmed. 

These bursaries are available to non Department of Music musicians to help with the cost of instrumental or singing lessons.

One of the criteria for being awarded a bursary is contribution to University music-making so they can only be held from the second year onwards.  

Deadline

There is an annual deadline, usually in July.

Apply for an Alumni Foundation Scholarship

The Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship supports undergraduate students with exceptional musical, dramatic or sporting talent outside their field of academic study.

Apply for a Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship

The purpose of the Fund is to help with expenses incurred by Music students of the University in pursuit of musical studies in an area for which a grant is not otherwise available to them.

It is primarily intended to support such projects as attendance at music summer schools or master classes. Preference will be given to applications for awards to be used within the period of registration at the University up to the end of the summer vacation following graduation.

An award will not normally be given more than once to the same person, but in the case of research students it may be renewed if the report on their work is good. Those interested are advised to discuss their proposals with the Director of Teaching before submitting them.

How to apply

Applications should be made to the Head of Subject (Music) in writing, giving full costings and details of the way in which the money would be used. It is a condition of an award that the holder should subsequently write to the Head of Subject giving an account of the use to which the money was put.

Eligibility

Current Music undergraduates and postgraduates.

This bequest is to enable students in the Department of Music to have a grant to attend a chamber music course, normally in a vacation. 

This is an excellent opportunity for all performers and you are strongly urged to take advantage of it.

How to apply

If you are involved in an ensemble and would like to attend such a course, please get in touch with the Head of Subject (Music).

Eligibility

Current Music undergraduates and postgraduates.

This was endowed on the retirement of Professor Warren in July 1994 in recognition of his unique contribution to the teaching of composition at the University of Bristol and his own distinguished work as a composer. The prize will be awarded to a postgraduate on the basis of outstanding achievement or potential in musical composition.

How to apply

Potential candidates should discuss the matter with their composition tutors before submitting an application form to the Head of Subject (Music). This should contain a record of their achievements in the field of composition, together with a proposal for the use of the prize money. Normally the prize will be awarded for use in the next academic year in such a way as to enrich the development of experience of the prizewinner(s) and, through that, the study of composition in the Department of Music.

Eligibility

Current Music postgraduates.

Deadline

The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2024. Application forms and copies of the regulations are available from the Music office.

This is awarded at the end of the first year of study and renewed (subject to satisfactory progress) for a further two years - the last payment being made after graduation.

The award (value £160 per annum) is made to an outstanding orchestral player on the basis of the Year 1 examination and is primarily intended to support a programme of lessons in the following academic year. Exceptionally, the scholarship may be awarded to other instrumentalists.

Contact the Deputy Head of Subject (Music) for more information.

This is awarded for outstanding work in the second year.

Contact the Deputy Head of Subject (Music) for more information.

The department may award prizes to final year undergraduates for the highest marks in extended study musicology, performance, composition and studio. The department also sometimes awards a prize for the best student work in accompanying other students' examined recitals.