MAKING A DIFFERENCE

When you donate to Csehy, you can choose from several funds to support. Each contribution builds sustainable funding, keeps tuition affordable, supports our dedicated faculty and counselors, and ensures meaningful programming and opportunities for Csehy students.

Explore the details of each fund below.

The Annual Fund is Csehy’s most vital resource, providing the foundation needed to sustain the ministry now and in the future. This fund covers essential expenses like utilities, meals, curriculum planning, music purchases, and other basics required to run camp each year. Building the Annual Fund is critical because, without it, our other funds cannot fulfill their purposes. Your contribution to the Annual Fund makes everything we do possible.

Annual Fund

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, Csehy’s Faculty Fund provides sustainable funding to cover music director and teacher salaries. This allows us to keep tuition affordable by eliminating the need to use tuition dollars for faculty compensation.

Faculty Fund

While we strive to keep Csehy affordable, many students are still unable to attend due to financial constraints. Our goal is to build strong scholarship programs that make it possible for all students, regardless of their financial situation, to benefit from our programs. By contributing to one of our scholarship funds, you help create sustainable financial aid opportunities that support students year after year. Thanks to our generous donors, the following scholarship funds have been established to provide financial support for Csehy students.

Scholarship Fund

Csehy Legacy Endowments

  • The Hsu Piano Scholarship honors the continuing testimony, teaching, leadership, and musicianship of Dr. Samuel Hsu. Dr. Hsu served Csehy as piano teacher between 1972 and 2011, dean of faculty until 2011, and board member until 2011. Dr. Hsu was Professor of Piano at Cairn University from 1972 to 2011. He has been an inspiration to multiple generations of Cairn and Csehy musicians.

    The purpose of the fund is to provide partial tuition scholarships to piano students who diligently work with respect to preparation of his or her lesson and ensemble repertoire, exhibit a particular enthusiasm for and interest in his or her musical participation, and live out his or her relationship with Christ in a manner worthy of emulation.

  • The McNiel Band Scholarship honors the continuing testimony, teaching, leadership, and musicianship of Dr. Harold E. McNiel. Dr. McNiel served Csehy as conductor of the Concert Band between 1977 and 1987. He was Professor of Brass Instruments and conductor of the Houghton College Wind Ensemble from 1958 to 2002. Dr. McNiel was a lover of the band and wind ensemble repertoires and served as principal euphonium of the Eastman Wind Ensemble in its inaugural season, beginning an era of seminal recordings under the baton of the ensemble’s director and founder, Frederick Fennel. He has been an inspiration to multiple generations of Houghton and Csehy musicians.

    The purpose of the fund is to provide partial tuition scholarships to wind, brass or percussion students who diligently work with respect to preparation of his or her lesson and ensemble repertoire, exhibit a particular enthusiasm for and interest in his or her musical participation, and live out his or her relationship with Christ in a manner worthy of emulation.

  • Provides merit-based scholarships for students studying vocal music.

  • The Wilmos and Gladys Csehy Endowment honors the legacy of our founders. As touring musical evangelists for many decades, Wilmos and Gladys invested many years of prayer which led to the beginning of Csehy Summer School of Music in October of 1961. It was Wilmos and Gladys’s desire to provide the highest quality musical study, both classical and sacred, for symphony orchestra, concert band, and choral groups, for youth under Christian leadership with a spiritual emphasis all for the glory of God.

    The purpose of the fund is to provide partial tuition scholarships to campers who both demonstrate musical proficiency indicating the camper has the skill and experience necessary to excel musically during their time as a camper at Csehy, and demonstrate financial need.