BRUNSWICK – Bowdoin International Music Festival has received grants from two Maine foundations to support scholarships for Maine students to attend the festival’s music school and to fund one internship in the festival’s music office.

Grants from the Sam L. Cohen and Simmons foundations complement the festival’s John M. Dunlap Jr. Scholarship Fund, providing opportunities for several Maine musicians to attend the festival at a reduced cost in 2006.

Students of classical music from around the world assemble at Bowdoin College each summer for private lessons and chamber music coaching with musicians from conservatories, chamber groups and orchestras. More than 60 concerts are given each season, including student performances in more than 50 concerts.

The music school will run in two three-week sessions from June 24 to Aug. 5 and is open to students age 13 and up. The funding will provide full and partial tuition scholarships to several qualified Maine students for three or six weeks. Eligible instruments are strings, piano, guitar, harp, woodwinds and composition.

For application forms and more information, visit www.bowdoinfestival.org or call 373-1400. The deadline is Jan. 31. Internship applications will be accepted until positions are filled.

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