Education and Scholarships
Birmingham Music Club
Guild Scholarships
Birmingham Music Club Scholarships have provided
financial support for talented music students, at the college level, since 1941. The scholarship program
is one of the most prestigious in the Southeast.
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Scholarship Auditions Friday, March 26, 2010 Hill Recital Hall Birmingham Southern College (Registration
deadline: Postmark on or before March 5, 2010)
$1500 Piano Scholarship Mildred Volentine Green Scholarship | Runner Up $1000 | $1500 Voice Scholarship Penelope Cunningham Scholarship | Runner Up $1000 | $1500 Organ Scholarship | Runner Up $1000 | $1500 Instrument Scholarship Stuart
Mims Scholarship | Runner Up $1000 |
The Winner of the Walter Sechriest Award – best performance in any category – will receive an additional
$1000 award.
Winners must use the award during the
2010-2011 academic year for undergraduate work in the above fields at any accredited college in the State of Alabama.
The Maximum age for contestants is 23 years at the time of competition.
Click here to download an application form.
Applications
and entrance fees should be mailed to Vera Britton, 3840 Valley Head
Road, Birmingham AL 35223. Fax and email copies are not accepted. Questions should be directed to Vera
Britton at 205-969-5906 or vbritton5906@charter.net.
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The scholarship winners
for 2010 are:
MILDRED VOLENTINE GREEN PIANO SCHOLARSHIP
First
place ($1,500) Benjamin Rollings, University of South Alabama.
Second place ($1,000) Laryne Williford, University
of Alabama
PENELOPE CUNNINGHAM VOICE SCHOLARSHIP
First
Place ($1,500) Katelyn Perkins, University of Montevallo
Second Place ($1,000) Leslie Procter,
University of Alabama
STUART MIMS INSTRUMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP
First Place
($1,500) Benjamin Stephenson (Marimba), Auburn University
Second Place tie:
($750) Elisha Benjamin (Flute), University of Alabama
($750) Corinth D. Young (Flute), University of Alabama
ORGAN SCHOLARSHIP
Second Place ($1,000) Joshua Bullock, Samford
WALTER SECHRIEST BEST PERFORMANCE AWARD ($1,000)
Benjamin Rollings, Piano, Univ. of South Alabama
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