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SCHOLARSHIPS

The Reading Musical Foundation offers audition-based scholarships on merit and need-sensitive awards for instrument upgrades, summer camp and private music study.

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LATIN MUSIC PROGRAM

Held at the Gateway School for the Arts, RMF sponsors a Latin Music After-School Program where students learn keyboard, guitar, voice and Latin Percussion instruments.

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PROJECT PENSKE

Sponsored by Penske Truck Leasing, Project Penske offers a variety of jazz-infused programs for students. Most popular are the Jazz Jams, held monthly at Zeswitz Music Store.

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About RMF

Over 80 years old, RMF is a public charity that provides financial support for music presenters in Berks County, music scholarships by audition and in response to financial need, and extensive music outreach, including programs in most of Berks County’s public and parochial schools.  RMF is governed by a self-perpetuating board of volunteer trustees and is administered by two full-time employees. The Foundation depends upon the public’s support each year.




 

 


Support of Local Music Presenters

RMF supports local music performance in three ways – by direct financial support, by encouraging the best governance practices, and by finding solutions to problems, like audience replenishment, that local music performing organizations share. RMF’s grants for local music performance totaled $126,000 for the current fiscal year ending next June. Business donors, in particular, consider RMF a “one-stop-shop” with which to entrust their budgets for community music performance. They value RMF’s understanding of performing organizations and the community’s artistic needs.
 

 


Scholarship Program

RMF is by far the largest provider of music scholarships in Berks County. Last year RMF awarded $47,305  in audition-based (“merit”) scholarships and $34,779 in scholarships sensitive to financial need (“need-based scholarships”) to students of all ages, for music instruction, instrument upgrades and music enrichment. Music scholarships are now available on nearly every instrument, voice and keyboard, to pre-college and college students, in jazz, folk, ancient and classical music.  New programs send several dozen children to summer music camp each year.

 

   

FUNDED ORGANIZATIONS

Berks Classical Children's Chorus

Friends of Chamber Music

Reading Choral Society

Reading Philharmonic Orchestra

Reading Pops Orchestra

Reading Symphony Orchestra

Ringgold Band

Star Series Association

 

 

 

 



 

 

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JANUARY 2010
22 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC, Los Angeles Piano Quartet, WCR Center for the Arts, 8:00 PM, FREE

23 READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Subscription 3: London Calling, SPAC, 8:00 PM


FEBRUARY 2010

5 KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTISTS SERIES, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra - Music to the Original Score of Douglas Fairbanks' The Mark of Zorro, Kutztown University, Schaeffer Auditorium, 7:30 PM

7 STUDENT RECITAL, Gregory Pisczek, Organist, Christ United Church of Christ, Temple, 3:00 PM, Ticket Information: (610) 670-2675. Concert to also feature special performances by Brian Gibson and Katherine Crocci

13 READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Valentine’s Day Pops Concert, Sovereign Performing Arts Center, 8:00 PM,

18 STAR SERIES, Tapestry, Albright College Chapel, 7:30 PM, Tickets: $18/$9 for students, Available through Albright box office (610) 921-7547


19 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC, Apollo Trio, WCR Center for the Arts, 8:00 PM, FREE

21 MILLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS SERIES, Hot 8 Brass Band, Miller Center for the Arts, RACC Campus, 4:00 PM, Tickets: $27/Advance, $32/Door, $20/Students

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