University awards performing scholarships
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.
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