Each year 8 highly gifted students receive a full scholarship and an additional 10 students are invited to play in the Camerata Orchestra. This is an up and coming artists' performance.

Festival Scholars is a full scholarship opportunity for 8 highly-gifted musicians to receive intense chamber music coaching with the festival artistic director, Jackie Lee, and Miami String Quartet members; Benny Kim, Scott Lee, and Keith Robinson as well as the Grammy Award-Winning Parker Quartet. Scholars also perform live on Kansas Public Radio and are featured in their own performance on August 4th in Yardley Hall.

​Heartland Chamber Music Festival is a partnership with Midwest Trust Center at JCCC.