Students from Wisconsin and Minnesota will study music at Bluffton University with the help of scholarships they earned as winners of Bluffton’s 2014 Performing Scholar Competition.
Kyle Johnson-Evers of Muskego, Wis., and Anna Cammarn of Albertville, Minn., have been awarded renewable scholarships valued at $80,000 and $72,000, respectively, over four years.
Both students plan to major in music, with Johnson-Evers focusing on piano and Cammarn, on voice. Johnson-Evers is a graduate of Muskego High School, where he was a member of the jazz band. Cammarn, a soprano, graduated from Buffalo (Minn.) High School, where she was active in choir, concert and marching band, and the drama club.
Brianna Keith of Grafton, Ohio, was also named a winner of the second annual competition, but she subsequently received the university’s full-tuition Presidential Scholarship.
High school seniors who intend to major in music or music education are eligible to enter the Performing Scholar Competition with a grade point average of at least 3.2 or a minimum score of 22 on the ACT or 1050 on the SAT. Following this year’s initial auditions, nine contestants were invited back for the finals, held during Bluffton’s spring-semester Masterworks Concert.
