Academic Excellence

Dean’s Honor Roll

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.

Honors at Graduation

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. 

Scholarships and Awards

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 in Music Education
  • Asian Performing Arts of Colorado Sponsorship
  • 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
  • Herbert T. Clark Memorial Scholarship
  • William Clendenin Music History Scholarship
  • Berton Coffin Scholarships in Voice
  • Arline P. Cohen Scholarship
  • Edward S. Collins French Horn 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 Music Scholarship
  • Denver Lyric Opera Guild Scholarship
  • Barbara M. Doscher Scholarship
  • Barbara M. Doscher Memorial Voice Scholarship
  • Robert A. and Louise P. 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
  • Musicology Award in Honor of Deborah Hayes
  • Jessie and Albert Henry Memorial Scholarship
  • Eugene Hilligoss Music Education Scholarship
  • Everett J. Hilty Carillon Fellowship
  • Everett J. Hilty, Sr. Fund
  • Bernice Holic Piano Scholarship
  • Warner and Norma Imig Choral Conducting Scholarship
  • Dennis Jackson Opera Scholarship
  • Freelyn Jeffers Award in Choral Conducting
  • Dale R. Johnson Opera Scholarship
  • Donald L. and Maria A. Johnson Music Awards
  • Denés Koromzay String Chamber Music Award
  • Edward Levy Composition Prize
  • Paige MacMillian Music Scholarship
  • George Lynn Memorial Scholarship
  • Alice Mason 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
  • Merrill Lynch Scholarship
  • Trudi Mielziner Graduate Opera Scholarship
  • Mile High Band Music Education Scholarship
  • Noris Graduate Award
  • O’Neal Taniguchi Music Entrepreneurship Fund
  • Gabor Ormai String Scholarship
  • Phyliss and Paul Parmelee Memorial Piano Scholarship
  • Denby and Georgia L. Peebles Memorial Fund
  • Denby and Georgia L. Peebles Memorial Scholarship
  • Peercy-Roth Memorial Scholarship
  • John N. Parsons Musicology Fund
  • Theory Pedagogy Scholarship
  • 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
  • Spike Robinson Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • 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
  • Martha and 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
  • Richard Toensing Composition Scholarships
  • Louise Touhy Music Scholarship
  • Gloria and Martin Trotsky Music Scholarships
  • Howard B. Waltz 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
  • Anne Zagoreos Piano Fellowship
  • Paula Marie and H. Rolan Zick Endowment