Your gift makes a difference.

The School of Music relies on the generous support of our donors to make many things possible for our students and faculty. Your giving supports student scholarships and awards, visiting artists and master classes, ensemble travel, our instrument inventory, and our newest initiative — Opus 88. Please consider making a gift today.

Brenna Kitchen

I got to experience the joys of many ensembles, student teaching with a wonderful mentor, and making some of the greatest friends and memories of my life. Scholarships have made this possible. I would not be here at Ohio State without opportunities like this, and I would not have been able to experience the incredible extracurriculars either. This scholarship has also allowed me to focus more heavily on my student teaching this semester so that when I enter my first year of teaching, I will be more adequately prepared. I am forever grateful for the experiences I’ve had at this university and through this School of Music. I am also forever grateful for donors like you that have made all this possible for students like me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
 

Nora Lemmon

I want to start out by thanking you so much for your donorship at The Ohio State University. I am a student at Ohio State majoring in Music Performance and minoring in Political Science. My instrument is horn, but I also play piano and sing! Some of my favorite classes I’ve taken in my first year include Symphonic Band, Music Theory, Horn Studio of which I’ve had the privilege of taking in the new Timashev Family Music Building. After successful auditions in the winter, I made first chair in the Symphonic Band as a freshman and was also asked to play during a master class with the horn player in the Imani Winds during their residency at Ohio State in April. In the future beyond my undergraduate studies, I hope to be playing horn professionally and teaching a private studio of young horn students. Currently, my goal is to play horn in a Broadway pit orchestra and live in either New York City or Chicago. I am excited to continue studying at Ohio State and the School of Music, where I know I’m building a foundation that will help me achieve my goals! I am so incredibly grateful to have received a scholarship. This scholarship will go a long way in helping me and my family pay for my tuition.
 

Samantha Sayar

I cannot express how grateful I am to have been a scholarship recipient. As a third-year music student from Atlanta, Georgia, I knew The Ohio State University felt like home from my first Zoom meeting with the faculty — so much so that I never actually saw the campus until after I had committed, due to COVID restrictions. Since then, I have had the most wonderful experiences studying what I am most passionate about — music education. Being an out-of-state student in the School of Music, I have found expenses to be quite overwhelming at times, and the contribution to my education significantly helped support my goal to finish my undergraduate education debt-free.

After I graduate, I plan to pursue a master's degree in vocal performance and spend some time performing professionally. One of my biggest goals, however, is to hone the vocal skills of today’s youth as a middle school choral director. People are often surprised when I mention wanting to teach middle school due to it being a notoriously difficult and trying time in peoples’ lives. I see it as an area of education that needs the strongest and most passionate educators because this is where students are truly developing their individuality and character. It is an especially formative time for their appreciation of music. A career and an education in the arts is by no means inexpensive, and as someone who is an advocate for music education, I am incredibly grateful for your contribution to my schooling.