| The Jimmy Lyons Scholarship Competition
Thank you for your interest in applying for an audition. The application deadline for the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship Competition is March 14, 2007. Please click here to access the scholarship application form.
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Each year, Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival seek applicants for the prestigious James L. Lyons Scholarship at Berklee. All California music students are encouraged to apply.
The Lyons Scholarship is named in honor of the Monterey Jazz Festival's late founder, James L. (Jimmy) Lyons, who started the festival in 1958 with a jazz education program at its core. Awarded each year to one outstanding student musician from California, it is a full-tuition, renewable award. Satisfactory academic and musical progress in each successive year will allow the Lyons Scholars to attend Berklee through graduation, entirely tuition-free.
Berklee faculty fly to Monterey in each year, expressly to audition students during the Monterey Jazz Festival High School Jazz Competition. Twenty-five students are chosen from the anticipated hundreds of Lyons Scholarship applications we receive. While there is only one Lyons Scholarship awarded each year, other sizable scholarships have been awarded to other members of this audition group in years past.
"For Jimmy, a big part of having a festival was the kids, and getting them involved with jazz," said Tim Jackson, Monterey Jazz Festival general manager. "We're thrilled with the relationship with the college, where so many great players have studied, and a full scholarship, at a place like Berklee, is a fitting tribute to Jimmy, who was a real jazz education pioneer."
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