What is a Friend of Music at Stanford?

We’re glad you asked! For over sixty years, the Friends of Music — in its support of Stanford’s Department of Music — has helped enhance musical activities on campus and in the community. Your membership support and generous contributions enable the Friends of Music to:

• Provide individual lesson scholarships to Stanford students in all disciplines.
• Support Stanford graduate music fellowships and educational programs.
• Assist in funding concerts and performance tours by departmental student ensembles.
• Provide special support to students in financial need.
• Bring music events to local community children.
• Enable visiting artists to provide master classes and student outreach.
• Aid the Department of Music to improve its facilities for music instruction and performance.

Beyond these tangible goals, Friends of Music is also a social group, where people with a common love of music.

Lesson Scholarships for Stanford Students

Each year Friends of Music give out hundreds of scholarships to help cover the costs of private music lessons for Stanford students, both Music majors and non-majors alike. If you would like to help us in our efforts, click on over to Stanford's secure donation server, or call (650) 723-1780.

Students may apply for a Friends of Music Applied Music Scholarship if they meet the following criteria:

• Taking individual private lessons through the Stanford Department of Music (scholarships do not cover the costs of group lessons, nor the costs of private off-campus instruction)
  
• Have been accepted into an instructor's studio and are registered for 3 units and a letter grade in the proper class and section (students may petition to maintain scholarship eligibility while taking lessons for fewer than three units)
  
• Currently enrolled Stanford student (TGR graduate students ARE eligible)

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Join Friends of Music at Stanford

Friends of Music is always looking for new members. Our members attend concerts, receptions, and special events on campus. They sponsor scholarships for students, organize special faculty showcase events, and can become truly integral parts of the life of the Department of Music.

Membership Levels and Benefits

Note: You receive all benefits up to and including your level.

• Student membership/Recent Graduates ($20) and Individuals $40
  • Announcements of all Department of Music events
  • Semi-annual newsletter
  • New member reception and tour
  • One free pair of tickets to a departmental performance*
  • Invitation to our annual dinner meeting and scholarship concert
• Family/Dual membership: $60
  • A second free pair of tickets to a departmental performance*
• Soloist: $100
  • Seating priority, when available
  • Three free pairs of tickets to departmental performances*
  • Annual donor recognition
  • Invitation to special receptions, lectures and performances
• Concertmaster: $500
  • Access privileges to selected courses and master classes
  • Free admission to departmental concerts*
  • Invitations to receptions for visiting artists and other social events
  • Donor recognition in FoM concert programs
• Maestro: $1,000
  • Student concert in your home (within contiguous Peninsula area), upon request
  • Personal tours of departmental resources upon request
• Virtuoso: $1,500
  • Provides a full lesson scholarship for one student for the school year. For donors at this level and above, each $1,500 donation funds an additional scholarship and can be designated toward a particular music category. Additionally, donors can be assigned a specific student, who will be informed of a scholarship in your name. Please contact Elise Fujimoto for more information about this program, which is independent of the other membership benefits at this level.
  *Lively Arts and certain other performances not included

Remittances: For membership remittances, please click over Stanford's secure donation server, or contact us to receive a brochure or to join over the phone:

Elise Fujimoto
Friends of Music at Stanford
Braun Music Center
541 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3076

email Elise Fujimoto

You will receive an acknowledgment letter and a membership card in the mail. You will also be placed on our Concert Calendar mailing list (we send out three concert calendars every year for Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters). You may also elect to be on our Friends of Music e-mail Concert Alert list.

Thank you!

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Contact the Friends of Music:

phone: 650.723.1780
fax: 650.725.2686
email Elise E. Fujimoto, Friends of Music Liaison

Send us mail:

Friends of Music at Stanford
Braun Music Center
541 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3076

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