College Music Scholarship Auditions
Date and Time
Saturday Apr 5, 2014
2:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Location
Located on the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets. Directly across the street from the Carousel.
Description
Richland Academy is excited to offer two college music scholarships to high school seniors planning to participate in Music classes in college this fall. The first award is the J. Frederick ''Fritz'' Wolf Scholarship; a vocal scholarship in the amount of $350. This award will be given to one vocal student who is currently a high school senior and planning to participate in music in college. Applicants are required to sing one song from the Solo & Ensemble Senior High Vocal Solo Class A list. This year's applicants will be adjudicated by Richard Mathey, Professor Emeritus of Choral Music and Voice at Bowling Green State University. The second award is the Dr. Thomas H. Croghan Scholarship for a jazz student (vocal or instrumental) in the amount of $300. This award will be given to one Jazz student who is currently a high school senior planning to participate in music in college this fall. Applicants are required to perform one jazz standard from memory (solo or with accompaniment) and to improvise 4 choruses of F, G, or C blues. Richland Academy will provide recorded rhythm tracks for the improvisation portion. This year's applicants will be adjudicated by Sam Romagnoli and Roeliff Harper, experienced jazz musicians and colleagues of Dr. Croghan. The auditions for these awards will be on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 2 pm. The top two finalists will be expected to perform at the Student Music Recital at Richland Academy on Sunday May 4, 2014 at 2 pm. The awards will be announced and given during the recital.
