MOUNT VERNON – The Knox County Foundation is currently accepting applications for the Vaughn Wiester Music Scholarship through March 1, 2021, from any graduating high school senior residing in Knox County who intends to continue the study of music at the college level.
Vaughn Wiester, a Mount Vernon native, has spent the last 50-plus years contributing to, playing in, and leading jazz- and big band orchestras, including the Dave Workman Blues Band, Jazz Arts Group, Woody Herman Orchestra and Dave Wheeler Contemporary Music Workshop. He also spent nearly two decades at Capital University as part of its pioneering jazz studies degree program, where he taught courses in arranging and jazz history and directed the prize-winning Big Band Sound Big Band. He later joined the Terry Waldo Ragtime Orchestra. Wiester, a jazz trombonist, now leads the Vaughn Wiester Famous Jazz Orchestra in Columbus. The group can be seen playing in Knox County regularly.
Preference will be given to applicants who will declare an academic major or minor in instrumental or vocal music; however, consideration will also be given to non-music majors or minors who will combine some academic study of music at college with continued extracurricular performance of music.
Students must complete the Foundation’s Universal Scholarship application, available at knoxcf.awardspring.com. Additionally, students must submit a one-page letter summarizing their musical performance experience to date as well as their musical goals at a specified college or university. A letter of recommendation from a faculty member or from a private music instructor may also be included.
Mail or email the one-page statement and letter of recommendation (optional), along with an audio mp3 (digital or CD) containing two to three minutes of solo or clearly discernible ensemble performance content (vocal or instrumental), preceded by a descriptive audio introduction of yourself and the performance setting to:
Lisa Lloyd, Program Director
Knox County Foundation
101 E. Gambier St.
P.O. Box 309
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
Email: lisa@knoxcf.org
For more information, call 740-392-3270.
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