$20,000 Scholarship for Five Week Summer Performance Program at Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA)

Don't miss your LAST CHANCE to submit to Berklee and Sonicbids' partnership to give four bands a chance to battle it out for a $20,000 scholarship to Berklee’s Five-week Summer Performance Program. Artists will be immersed in all aspects of performance. Their classes, workshops, and rehearsals will focus on this important side of their musicianship.


The Five-Week Program emphasizes the mastery of playing or singing skills in an artist's chosen style of contemporary music./n/nBerklee and Sonicbids have partnered to give four bands a chance to battle it out for a $20,000 scholarship to Berklee’s Five-week Summer Performance Program running from July 10 through August 13 at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.

About the Summer Program:

The Five-Week Summer Performance Program, now in its 22nd year, is the largest, most comprehensive summer music program available – anywhere. The Berklee Five-Week Summer Performance Program, with its diversity of study options, world-class Berklee faculty, visiting artists, and state-of-the-art facilities, is the premiere contemporary music summer program for young musicians. Each summer, approximately 900 participants from across the U.S. and around the world (70 countries) share in this unique summer experience--all instruments, all contemporary styles, and all levels of musical ability. Five-Week is your opportunity to experience the summer of a lifetime, at the world's most prestigious institution for the study of contemporary music.

Participating artists will be immersed in all aspects of performance. Your classes, workshops, and rehearsals will focus on this important side of your musicianship. You will play in ensembles, develop improvisational and reading skills, improve your technique in weekly private lessons, and enjoy lectures/demonstrations by well-known faculty and visiting artists

The Five-Week Program emphasizes the mastery of playing or singing skills in your chosen style of contemporary music: jazz, pop/rock, funk/fusion, or pop/r&b. You will learn through your individual studies and through your work with other musicians of similar training and ability.

So now you want to know how to get your band there. Here’s the deal:

• Submit your application on Sonicbids for review by Berklee.


• Berklee’s panel of judges will narrow the list down to the top four bands. Submissions will be judged on Songwriting, Vocal and Instrumental Craft, Group Performance and Production. Judges will be Berklee faculty, notable Boston-area artists and industry professionals, and they will be reviewing your EPK as well, so make sure you keep it filled out and up-to-date.


• The top four bands will travel to Berklee, taking videos of their “Road to Berklee” for Berklee staff and students, Sonicbids staff, fans and family to enjoy. These videos will be featured on a “Berklee & Sonicbids Battle for Berklee Five-week Program” website.


• Bands will showdown at a Battle of the Bands at Café 939 on June 19. The bands will perform in front of an audience of Berklee faculty, students, Boston music industry experts, press and more. And the event will be streamed live for your family and friends to tune in.


• Berklee’s panel of judges will choose the Battle of the Bands winner. This is the band who will come to Berklee for the Five-week Summer Performance Program with the scholarship from Berklee and a $3,000 cash stipend from Sonicbids to cover room and board.

*The fine print:*

Scholarships are for bands of four members or fewer. Finalist bands are responsible for covering their own travel costs to Boston for the Battle of the Bands.

For more information about Berklee College of Music, visit our website.