Tuesday Musical announced today that 26 college and university music students in Ohio have won its 2025 Scholarship Competition.
Now in its 69th year, the adjudicated annual competition provides support for music majors from throughout Ohio who are embarking on careers as music educators and performers.
Nearly 130 applicants from 12 schools applied to compete this year for 29 scholarships ranging from $750 to $2,000 each and totaling a record-breaking $41,050. Categories judged today at The University of Akron include music education, brass, classical guitar, piano, marimba/classical steel drum, strings, voice, and woodwinds. The organ category was judged March 15 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Akron.
New for 2025 is a 2nd-place award in the organ category. Two other scholarships are newly named and anonymously endowed: the Barbara Kingsbury Eaton Scholarship in the voice category and the George Pope Scholarship in the woodwinds category. Both are named for longtime Tuesday Musical board members and supporters. The 3rd-place piano scholarship has been renamed and endowed as the Jerry Davidson and Clarenz J. Lightfritz Scholarship.
Mark Greer and George Pope are the co-chairs of Tuesday Musical’s scholarship committee. An array of judges, volunteers, donors and teachers make the annual competition possible.
The first- and second-place winners in the performance categories will be invited to perform in the competition’s Final Round/Winners Concert on Sunday, May 4, 2:30 p.m. at The University of Akron School of Music’s Guzzetta Recital Hall, 157 University Ave. Two additional adjudicated scholarships — one for $1,000 and one for $2,000 — will be awarded. The audience will also pick the winner of the John M. Ream Jr. DDS People's Choice Award of $500.
The May 4 concert and post-concert reception are free and open to the public.
An Akron anchor arts organization founded in 1887, Tuesday Musical presents concerts by world-acclaimed musicians in Akron as well as education and community engagement programs throughout northeast Ohio. View more info and a list of winners on the scholarship competition page.