Announced at the 2016 Vodafone Pacific Music Awards, the Pacific Music Awards Trust and MAINZ proudly announce that applications for a new scholarship are now open. The Pacific Music Awards Trust is extremely thrilled to provide this scholarship opportunity to a Pacific student and look forward to working with MAINZ to confirm the inaugural recipient.
The scholarship is for a promising Pacific artist and is worth up to $8,500 towards tuition fees for the 2017 academic year. The scholarship winner will have the choice of studying music, event management, audio engineering and production, business or live sound. The successful recipient may choose any of the fulltime programmes available at MAINZ, subject to complying with the entry criteria and selection process for the particular programme.
The eligible full time programmes available for this scholarship include:
Bachelor of Musical Arts
Bachelor of Audio Engineering and Production
Graduate Diploma in Business and Enterprises
Diploma in Music and Event Management
Certificate in Foundation Sound and Music
Certificate in Contemporary Music Performance
Certificate in DJ and Electronic Music Production
Certificate in Live Sound and Event Production
Details for all of the MAINZ programmes and entry criteria can be found here: http://tpp.ac.nz/study-options/music-and-audio-mainz/
To apply for the scholarship, applicants need to send via email a CV and cover letter, confirming why they would like to receive this scholarship (up to 500 words) and their Pacific ethnicity, to the Pacific Music Awards Trust, on: info@pacificmusicawards.org.nz Applications are due by Friday 25 November.