The 2018 Coast Recital Society (CRS) scholarships were recently awarded to 14 young local students to further their study of classical music.
Pianist Béla Ord received the Ross Brougham Award, given annually to the student with the highest mark from the CRS scholarship committee. The award is named after Ross Brougham, a great music lover who served as treasurer of the CRS for many years.
Five awards went to students studying music at the university level: Hannah Crudele, Louis Dillon, Simon Gidora, Breanna Picard and Emily Picard. Other scholarships were awarded to pianists Byron Brampton and Amelia Mellis, cellists Lorren Benko and Aila Brampton and violinists Hannah Marincak, Hayden Rogers and Cassidy Wieler.
In addition, four CRS Adjudicator’s Choice Awards were awarded as part of this year’s Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts: Ainsley Ariss – winds/brass, Matthew Douglas – piano, Willem Husselmann – voice, and Cassidy Wieler – bowed strings.
CRS scholarships are funded from the sale of CDs at CRS concerts and from the proceeds from unused CRS tickets returned for resale. CRS scholarships applications are accepted in January and February of each year and are open to Sunshine Coast students, 25 years or younger, who are studying classical music. More information is available on the CRS website at www.coastrecitalsociety.ca
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