Since 1981, SAMRO has offered a number of bursaries for music students. These Bursaries constitute the most substantial awards in music study in South Africa and are open to citizens of all the countries within SAMRO’s territory of operation: South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. The bursaries are available to students registered for full-time study at a South African university and awarded in the following genres: Western Art music, Indigenous African music, and Jazz/Popular music. The SAMRO Music Bursaries have become a significant source for music education funding with more than R25m having gone into the programme over the past 12 years. These bursaries have helped kick-start the careers of artists such as Marcus Wyatt, Concord Nkabinde, Andile Yenana, Melanè Hofmeyr-Burger and Angela Gilbert.

The following categories of bursaries are on offer:

General Music Study (R10 000 each) available to students in their 1st and 2nd years           

Music Education Bursaries (R10 000 each) available to students majoring in music education in their 3rd and 4th years

Composition Study (R10 000 each) available to students majoring in music composition in their (i) 3rd, 4th and Honours years (ii) post-graduate students at Masters and Doctoral level

Indigenous African Music Research (R10 000 each) are special awards for post-graduate research students at Honours, Masters or Doctoral level         

Application forms for 2012 academic year are posted on the home page of this website. Closing date is 1 March 2012. For more information, please contact Naseema Yusuf on 011 712 8417.