Each year, several scholarships are available for local musicians through the Albert Lea Civic Music Association Scholarship Auditions:

Jerdet Summer Music Scholarship for Jr. & Sr. High Students
​Junior High Summer Music Camp

• 1st Place - up to $500
• 2nd Place - up to $350
• Honorable Mention Awards -$100

Senior High Summer Music Camp

• 1st Place - up to $1000
• 2nd Place - up to $500
• Honorable Mention Awards - $100

College Scholarships (2nd, 3rd, or 4th Year College Music Major)

• 2 - 1st Awards available - $5000 (Music Major) / $2500 (Non-Music Major)
• 2 - 2nd Awards available - $2500 (Music Major) / $1500 (Non-Music Major)

Helen Wipplinger Organ & Piano Lesson Scholarship

• One year of private lessons (26 lessons) on either the piano or the organ from a qualified private teacher of the student’s choice.

Applications for the 2019 scholarships are now being accepted:

This season, Albert Lea Civic Music has a reciprocity agreement with the Austin Artist Series and Clear Lake Area Concert Association. This arrangement allows you to use your membership to Civic Music (season ticket) for admission to performances in the following performances in Austin and Clear Lake.

Albert Lea Civic Music presented the 2014 music scholarship winners in a recital at First Presbyterian Church of Albert Lea on June 5. The students auditioned in May for summer music camps, college, and piano lessons scholarships. 

2014 Winners: Joshua Englin,  Abby Sencio, Madeline Phillips, Morgan Phillips, Liesel Teusch,  Anna Englin,  Maria Silva, Taylor Peek, Claire Buendorf, Lauren Wetzel and Melody Randall.

Applications for the 2015 scholarships will be announced in next spring. 

Learn more about the scholarship program...

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live transmissions to movie theaters worldwide, returns for its second season at Albert Lea's Marion Ross Performing Arts Center on October 5 with the first of 10 performances. Tickets for the general public are available beginning today, August 21.

“We are happy to once again serve up an exciting mix of operas and opera stars to our loyal audiences watching live from Vancouver to Moscow, and on a delayed basis in Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s General Manager and Executive Producer of the transmissions. “While the world may roil, operatically it is in harmony on our live transmission days.”

The Albert Lea Civic Music Association will kick-off the annual ticket drive on Monday, August 5.  About 50 volunteer ticket sellers will begin their yearly contacting of past season ticket holders and new prospects.  The annual drive will continue through August 20.  Tickets may also be purchased through the mail and at the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.  Even after the drive is finished, one can purchase a season ticket at the ticket window prior to each concert.  

Membership prices are quite reasonable, costing no more than a single-event ticket at many metro venues. This means that even if you have to miss a performance, your membership is still a great value.  Keep in mind that your season ticket allows you to attend not only the five concerts in Albert Lea, but also performances in reciprocal communities!

Single tickets are not sold for these concerts. So don’t be late, buy your ticket during the ticket drive!