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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.

 

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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