Â鶹¹û¶³ music students won eight of the 16 scholarship awards, including three first place honors, given at the 2005 Alabama Federation of Music Clubs Scholarship Auditions.
The competition, held March 5 at Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, was open to graduate and undergraduate students from colleges and universities throughout Alabama.
Each first place winner took home $1,000 in prize money. First place winners from Â鶹¹û¶³ included: Alexandra Maddox, junior voice performance major from Newton, women's voice division; Drew Pournelle, junior voice performance major from Soperton, Ga., men's voice division; and Paul Vest, junior cello performance and classics major from Branchville, strings division.
Other Â鶹¹û¶³ winners were: Elizabeth Godfrey, junior church music major, Pleasant Grove, second place, women's voice division; Lauren Culotta, junior voice performance major, Birmingham, third place, women's voice division; Kathryn Hoppe, sophomore music education major, Huntsville, second place, strings division; Dawson Hull, sophomore piano performance and music theory/composition major, Jackson, Tenn., third place, piano division; and Cahill Smith, freshman piano performance major, Montgomery, fourth place, piano division.