APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN FOR 2025!
The Huntsville Festival of the Arts Scholarship Award was introduced in 1997 to foster the development of the performing arts talent in our community.
HfA offers both a Junior (16 & under) & Senior (17 & older) Performing Arts Scholarship.
For a list of all Festival Scholarship recipients click here In 2010, the festival undertook a $1,000 Huntsville Festival Visual Arts Scholarship (formerly The Tobias Award) to be awarded to a graduating visual arts student. Each year the art department at the school identifies a worthy candidate to receive this honour. The 2024 award went to Fiona Fletcher. This award is in honour of Kareen Burns who was a past HfA Board member and valued member of the Huntsville Community. Her spirit of creativity, imagination and ingenuity continues to make a positive impact on our community. In total, HfA has awarded $12,000 to students through the Huntsville Festival Visual Arts Award.
Previous Festival scholarships have been awarded to students pursuing studies in dance, theatre and music. The program will also accept applications for technical skills (ie stage management, lighting or sound design). Scholarship recipients and applicants have participated in a number of performance opportunities over the years, both during main stage concerts at the Festival and Music at Noon concerts. Since 1997 a total of $77,350 has been awarded to 66 Senior candidates, and $16,650 to 43 junior/intermediate candidates over the same period
FESTIVAL SCHOLARSHIPS
Trio Aqua Dulci featured former Scholarship recipient Sarah Jane Johnston in an exceptional classical evening
2013 Scholarship recipient Gregory Gibson (at the piano) is joined by his brother Alec
