The Robeson Scholarship & Equity fund will allow us to broaden access to quality music instruction for all students by:
- Providing financial support for individual lessons. This includes weekly music lessons, studio recitals, and group classes through Triangle Music School for each scholarship recipient. All associated costs such as books and lesson supplies will also be fully funded to the Scholarship recipient.
- Facilitating instrument donations from collecting, repairing through giving good working instruments to students who need them
- Funding for teachers to receive training to create equitable and diverse experiences for themselves and their students
- Creating partnerships with regional professional artists to work with our student & teacher population, expanding everyone’s understanding and concepts in performance practices and styles. The residency will culminate with a public performance of the collaboration.
Make a monthly recurring donation or a one-time generous gift online by clicking the logo below.
- Send us a check: Please make it payable to Fractured Atlas with Triangle Music School/Robeson Fund in the memo line. Send it to our school mailing address (listed in page footer).
- Share our fundraiser: tell your friends and your community about our work and ask them to support us!
- We are also open to in-kind donations (instruments?), volunteers, or matching opportunities. If you’re able to offer any of these please let us know.
The Robeson Scholarship & Equity Fund is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of The Robeson Scholarship & Equity Fund must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
About the name: Rich Robeson was a long-time friend and supporter of Triangle Music School. Robeson & TMS Director Jenn Hancock first worked together as faculty at Boyce Piano Emporium and then left to rent “the big yellow house” as a partnership (with Tyson Rogers) known as Artsplace Unlimited. While our business partnership ended when Rich & Tyson moved out of the area in the summer of 2006, Rich maintained a teaching space at the school through 2014 and helped guide the school in many of its policies and philosophies. You can read about Mr. Robeson here: https://bioethicstoday.org/blog/a-tribute-to-richard-w-robeson-1951-2020/
Robeson Scholarship Application
For the 2023-24 year:
Fall decisions about scholarship will be made within one week of the preferential deadline. Applications received later in the academic year will be made within two weeks of receiving the application at the office.
General Guidelines:
- The recital fee ($5 per student per quarter) is not included in scholarship funding
- Families may receive full or partial funding.
- For this need-based financial aid, the scholarship amount is determined by family income/ household size
- Other discounts (e.g. family & early) do not apply when scholarship is awarded
- Students who receive scholarship in the fall session will receive the same amount in the winter & spring sessions, providing they have demonstrated adequate commitment to their music study. Summer session funding will be for the 8-lesson minimum.
- Any remaining amount due after awarded scholarship will follow usual monthly billing and invoicing.
- All families must reapply each new academic year for scholarship funds, including a new application form and income verification.