Congratulations to the 26 music majors from throughout Ohio who won Tuesday Musical's 2025 Annual Scholarship Competition.
Begun in 1955, 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.
The adjudicated competition provides vital support for music majors from throughout Ohio who are embarking on careers as music educators and performers.
Categories include music education, brass, classical guitar, piano, marimba/classical steel drum, organ, strings, voice, and woodwinds.
On-line applications open January 1-February 1 each year. For more information, email scholarship@tuesdaymusical.org.
New in 2025 were a 2nd-place award in the organ category and 2 other named and anonymously endowed scholarships: 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.
Bravo to all who competed and are embarking on careers as music educators and performers.
And, bravo to the many volunteers, donors, judges, and teachers who make the competition possible every year!
Results of Final Round/Winners Concert
Violist Kiarra Saito-Beckman and organist JoEllen West won the two top awards in Tuesday Musical’s 2025 Annual Scholarship Competition Final Round/Winners Concert on May 4. Pianist Philippe Gagne won the People’s Choice Award.
Saito-Beckman, a student at the Cleveland Institute of Music, won the $2,000 Arden J. Yockey Scholarship. West, a student at the Cleveland Institute of Music, won the $1,000 Arden J. Yockey Scholarship. Gagne, also a student at the Cleveland Institute of Music, garnered the most audience votes to win the $500 John M. Ream Jr. DDS People’s Choice Award.
The final-round judges were conductor Dean Buck, composer Margi Griebling-Haigh, and retired journalist and music critic Elaine Guregian.
Held in Guzzetta Recital Hall at The University of Akron, the 2025 Scholarship Final Round/Winners Concert featured performances by 12 first- and second-place winners of Tuesday Musical’s Annual Scholarship Competition in March.