Dear Anja, I am so sorry to hear about your situation and I cannot help your first question because I am English! BUT Someone who will definitely be able to help you is the “Glissando Harfenfachzentrum” (www.glissando.de), they are helping me to find a harp teacher in Leipzig as I may be spending some time there soon; trust me they are really nice and very helpful. I do know that in Trossingen you could study harp with Renie Yamahata, who I think plays for the S?dwest-Rundfunks Orkester and teaches at the Musikhochschule Trossingen, Maria Stange (Musikhochschule Stuttgart)who also sounds very good…just e-mail glissando,I’m sure they’ll help. Also try Die Vereinigung deutsche Harfenisten (www.harfe-vdh.de) who also have alot of people you can contact. I hope I have helped here, Anja, please let me know how your quest is going!

I believe that in most, if not all, American schools and Universities,
scholarship money is reserved for American students.

In graduate school at public universities there are many “graduate teaching assistanceships” offered to foreign students. From my experience I would say that half or more of these are awarded to foreign students. The tuition is waved and the student is given a small monthly stipend. I lived on mine during those years. I don’t know what is available at the undergraduate level, perhaps not much, but certainly at the graduate level. So, if it doesn’t work out now, perhaps in a few years.

There are other schools here which would have scholarships, and isn’t there money from the German government for studies abroad? We have to take out student loans for our education and apply for grants, and have money from our families.