For the Future of Early Music...
The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall annually invite applications for Student Bursaries to assist with costs of travel, research, conference attendance and professional preparation in connection with early music and early music instrument technology.
The range of research and activity is fascinating, covering specialist early lute repertoire; evolution of bel canto style; baroque ensemble performance practice; and the development of the flute in Scotland with particular reference to iconography. Such awards are made each year from a dedicated Bursary Fund which is sustained partly by generous donations and partly by fund-raising activities like small domestic concerts for Friends and guests; the sale of CDs, postcards and refreshments; and our Edinburgh Festival Fringe concert series.
Sample of previous Bursary Awards
If you would like to set up a standing order to give regularly to this Fund, just ask the Treasurer to send you an appropriate form. It is useful if you tell us whether you are a UK tax-payer and are happy to assign Gift Aid on your donation, to allow us to reclaim tax you have paid.
Bursary holders report on how they have used their awards in our newsletter, Soundboard and Friends website. They keep in close touch with the Friends long after the year of their award. You will be able to track their progress and see the effect of your gift in their development.
With many thanks in advance for your support,
Elly Smith
Chairman, The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum.
* To donate to the Bursary Fund, contact:
Andrew Mackie
The Treasurer,
The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum,
c/o Dr Jenny Nex, Centre for Research Collections,
6th Floor, Main University Library,
George Square,
Edinburgh, EH8 9LG.
The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall annually invite applications for Student Bursaries to assist with costs of travel, research, conference attendance and professional preparation in connection with early music and early music instrument technology.
The range of research and activity is fascinating, covering specialist early lute repertoire; evolution of bel canto style; baroque ensemble performance practice; and the development of the flute in Scotland with particular reference to iconography. Such awards are made each year from a dedicated Bursary Fund which is sustained partly by generous donations and partly by fund-raising activities like small domestic concerts for Friends and guests; the sale of CDs, postcards and refreshments; and our Edinburgh Festival Fringe concert series.
Sample of previous Bursary Awards
- £650 to Elizabeth Ford for the acquisition of a modern copy of a Renaissance flute to enhance her understanding of the development of the early flute and its music in Scotland. Her post-doctoral studies will give major focus to the iconography of the ceilings at Crathes Castle.
- £700 to Tom Wilkinson to help set up the pre-professional baroque group, the Kellie Consort.
- £650 to Brianna Robertson- Kirkland for attendance at a bel canto summer school in Dublin, run by Emma Kirkby.
- £700 to Eric Thomas, lute player, to allow him to attend the Urbino Early Music summer school for intensive lute instruction.
If you would like to set up a standing order to give regularly to this Fund, just ask the Treasurer to send you an appropriate form. It is useful if you tell us whether you are a UK tax-payer and are happy to assign Gift Aid on your donation, to allow us to reclaim tax you have paid.
Bursary holders report on how they have used their awards in our newsletter, Soundboard and Friends website. They keep in close touch with the Friends long after the year of their award. You will be able to track their progress and see the effect of your gift in their development.
With many thanks in advance for your support,
Elly Smith
Chairman, The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum.
* To donate to the Bursary Fund, contact:
Andrew Mackie
The Treasurer,
The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum,
c/o Dr Jenny Nex, Centre for Research Collections,
6th Floor, Main University Library,
George Square,
Edinburgh, EH8 9LG.
Bursary applications
Use below buttons for bursary application information and also pre-application advice can be obtained by e-mailing : - friends@stceciliasfriends.org.uk
Use below buttons for bursary application information and also pre-application advice can be obtained by e-mailing : - friends@stceciliasfriends.org.uk
Friends of St Cecilia’s Bursary Awards 2017
Members of the bursary committee were delighted to receive applications from an international group of students with a wide span of specialist interests. Awards have been made to:
Federico Filippi De Bord, a third year undergraduate from the Conservatorio Paganini, Genova, Italy, who has studied on an Erasmus programme in Edinburgh, in order to cover expenses in obtaining digitised copies of important source manuscripts relating to the development of the mandolin and its repertoire through the 17th and 18th centuries;
Motoko Fukuda, a harpsichord student on a postgraduate Master’s programme in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany, towards expenses for research visits to study early keyboard instruments in the Moretus Museum in Antwerp and in St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh;
Eric Thomas, a PhD candidate studying lute at the University of Southampton, towards expenses for participation in workshops at the Leipzig Improvisation Festival for Early Music.
We look forward to reading accounts of their bursary experiences in future editions of Soundboard.
Linguists sought for St Cecilia’s tours
Ruthanne Baxter, recently appointed Museum Services Manager, makes this appeal:
We are aiming to have set dates in the year when we could offer Spotlight Tours of St Cecilia’s (30 minutes duration) in a variety of languages for visitors.
We would like to be able to cover French, Spanish, Italian, German and Mandarin – but would be very happy to add to this list.
We are now seeking volunteers for this activity. The Language Tour Guides would get “into the swing” via a training package that would consist of a short summary of notes on the building (collection by e-mail / post), followed by a one-hour combined tour / question and answer session at St Cecilia’s from our curators, and finally a short spell of “buddy tours” alongside curators until the language guides feel comfortable leading tours alone.
We are reaching out via several channels in search of such volunteers, but would be particularly pleased if any Friends who are fluent in a language would be interested in participating.
If you would like to offer this kind of help, please e-mail Ruthanne.Baxter@ ed.ac.uk or write to:
Ruthanne Baxter Museum Services Manager St Cecilia’s Hall Niddry Street/Cowgate Edinburgh EH1 1NQ
Members of the bursary committee were delighted to receive applications from an international group of students with a wide span of specialist interests. Awards have been made to:
Federico Filippi De Bord, a third year undergraduate from the Conservatorio Paganini, Genova, Italy, who has studied on an Erasmus programme in Edinburgh, in order to cover expenses in obtaining digitised copies of important source manuscripts relating to the development of the mandolin and its repertoire through the 17th and 18th centuries;
Motoko Fukuda, a harpsichord student on a postgraduate Master’s programme in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany, towards expenses for research visits to study early keyboard instruments in the Moretus Museum in Antwerp and in St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh;
Eric Thomas, a PhD candidate studying lute at the University of Southampton, towards expenses for participation in workshops at the Leipzig Improvisation Festival for Early Music.
We look forward to reading accounts of their bursary experiences in future editions of Soundboard.
Linguists sought for St Cecilia’s tours
Ruthanne Baxter, recently appointed Museum Services Manager, makes this appeal:
We are aiming to have set dates in the year when we could offer Spotlight Tours of St Cecilia’s (30 minutes duration) in a variety of languages for visitors.
We would like to be able to cover French, Spanish, Italian, German and Mandarin – but would be very happy to add to this list.
We are now seeking volunteers for this activity. The Language Tour Guides would get “into the swing” via a training package that would consist of a short summary of notes on the building (collection by e-mail / post), followed by a one-hour combined tour / question and answer session at St Cecilia’s from our curators, and finally a short spell of “buddy tours” alongside curators until the language guides feel comfortable leading tours alone.
We are reaching out via several channels in search of such volunteers, but would be particularly pleased if any Friends who are fluent in a language would be interested in participating.
If you would like to offer this kind of help, please e-mail Ruthanne.Baxter@ ed.ac.uk or write to:
Ruthanne Baxter Museum Services Manager St Cecilia’s Hall Niddry Street/Cowgate Edinburgh EH1 1NQ
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Photos shown are of five previous bursary award holders: Elizabeth Ford, Eric Thomas, David Gerrard , David Dewhirst and Annemarie Klein
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Elizabeth Ford
Eric Thomas