2019 Shirley Rabb Winston Classical Voice Scholarship Recipients
2019 Recipients
Rebeca Gonzalez Maldonado, 19, El Paso Chapter, $2,200, to attend summer opera training programs: Bay View Music Festival in Petoskey, MI, SongFest in Los Angeles or Greve Opera Academy & Music Festival in Chiari, Italy.
Laura Santamaria-Mendez, 17, Florida East Coast Chapter, $1,200, for college tuition to continue studies in vocal performance.
Sam Dhobhany, 17, Greater New York Chapter, $2,000, to help pay tuition to study this summer at the Lunigiana International Music Festival Academy in Fivizzano, Italy.
Melanie Spector, 21, Greater New York Chapter, $1,000, to attend the Sherrill Milnes VOICExperience project and Voice Studio in Orlando, FL and Savannah, GA.
Lauren Zinke, 21, Metropolitan Chicago Chapter, $1,000 to attend the LAH-SOW summer opera workshop in Minneapolis, MN
Bo Shimmin, 22, Bloomington Chapter, $1,000 to attend the Sherrill Milnes Voice Studio in Savannah, GA.
Marley Jacobson, 19, Clearwater/Tampa Bay Chapter, $1,000 to study at the Chautauqua Institute summer program in Chautauqua, NY.
Loucine Topouzian, 22, Central Illinois Chapter, $1,000 to fund graduate studies in vocal performance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Christine Cummins, 21, Clearwater/Tampa Bay Chapter, $1,000 for a summer training program in vocal performance.
Emma Hicks, 16, Pittsburgh Chapter, $600, to study this summer at Oberlin College & Conservatory’s precollege vocal intensive in Oberlin, Ohio.
2019 Judges
Justyna Giermola, Soprano
Mariana Karpatova. Mezzo-soprano
Barbara Rearick, Mezzo-soprano
