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2007 Lois Pickard Scholarship Winners

 

Left to Right:
 

Lova Sun (Piano-1st)

Minjoo Jo (Piano-2nd)
Michele Smith (Brass/Percussion-2nd)

Kelsey Tamayo (Brass/Percussion-1st)

Nathaniel Smith (Strings-1st)

Hannah Frees (Strings-2nd)

 

 

The Lois Pickard scholarship competition held on January 20, 2007 resulted in the following winners: Brass, Woodwind, Percussion division: first place winner, Kelsey Tamayo, percussion from Elizabethtown, Kentucky( by the way, I got an e-mail from Kelsey's mom this morning saying that she was playing at Carnegie Hall in New York. No other details), second place winner is Michelle Smith, french horn, from Birmingham. String division winners: first place Nathaniel Smith, cello, from Brandon, Mississippi and second place is Hannah Frees, violin, from Pell City. Piano division: first place winner, Lova Sun, Montgomery and second place is Minjoo Jo from Prattville.
The first place winners were awarded $1500 and the second place received $800 each.
Our grand prize winner is Lova Sun who will perform sometime in 2008 with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
Many thanks to UAB Department of Music for allowing us to use their
facilities.
Rosalind Rust
V Pres—Education

 

News

We have been informed that 2 of our winners from last year's competition were winners elsewhere: Steven Kim, violist, won the Wendell Irish Viola Award for the Southeastern region of the National Federation of Music Clubs, and Kelsey Tamayo, marimbist, was the senior percussion national winner of the Music Teachers National Association.

Volunteer members should be very pleased and proud that they are giving financial assistance to such outstanding students