Centre for Music Technology
Facts
How much: £1,000
Deadline: Monday 22 March 2010
Who is eligible: UK and EU full-time undergraduates
The Centre for Music Technology at the University of Kent will be offering one scholarship to an applicant who demonstrates academic excellence.
This scholarship competition is open to all UK and EU full-time undergraduate students starting their courses in the 2010-11 academic year.
The scholarship is for £1,000 per academic year. It will be awarded for one year in the first instance and renewable for the duration of the applicant's undergraduate degree programme, normally 3 or 4 years; subject to satisfactory academic progress.
Criteria
Open to all UK and EU full-time applicants
Applicants should have attained, or be expected to attain, a minimum of 320 tariff points or DMM at BTEC or equivalent.
At the point of application for the scholarship, applicants are asked to provide the following:
• An audio CD of original compositions,
arrangements, recordings or creative sound work. DVDs or CD-ROMs may be submitted for multimedia work. Please provide no more than 20 minutes of material. If the work you wish to send is longer than this, please provide selected, edited highlights. Please label your work clearly.
• An accompanying document which briefly explains each track on the CD and details your
contribution to each piece (whether you are composer or arranger, or if you contributed to the performance, or were part of a team who recorded it). Please use this opportunity to tell us about any technical or musical matters which are noteworthy about your work, whether you created, edited and transformed your own samples, explored an unusual recording technique or have used an unusual harmonic structure or interesting rhythms, etc. This document should be no more than 800 words.
• A short summary of your relevant experiences and achievements in music and music technology. And in a further document, please mention any instruments you play, and to what standard; also mention what software and hardware you have used, and in what context you have used it. This document should be no more than 300 words.
How to apply
When making the online application, applicants will be asked to provide the following:
UCAS ID number
Date of Birth
Essay (please state in this field "I am posting my portfolio to the Scholarships Unit").All portfolios must be received by 22 March 2010
Please click here to make an application for this scholarship and submit written work
The closing date for submission of applications is Monday 22 March 2010
For further information, or if you have any problems, please contact scholarships@kent.ac.uk
