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By Jill Yesko, University Relations
Contact (336) 334-3890
Posted:5-24-07
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Three graduate students from the School of Music have been awarded $19,126 from the Las Vegas-based Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts.
The award will be used to pay tuition for Julianne Odahowski, a violinist; Anne Berry, a cellist, and Radha Mundkur, a pianist. The students are members of the Liberace Trio, which was established at UNCG in 2004 under a grant from the Liberace Foundation to support chamber music performance at the highest levels.
“The Liberace scholarship once again makes it possible for these three outstanding students to have an incredible graduate assistant experience by playing great chamber music,” said Dr. David Nelson, associate dean of the School of Music.
The Liberace Trio performs regularly on campus and throughout the community. Earlier this year, the trio performed Olivier Messiaen’s acclaimed “Quartet for the End of Time,” which Messiaen composed while he was a prisoner in a concentration camp.
Since its inception in 1976, the Liberace Foundation has awarded in excess of $5 million in scholarships to more than 2,200 students at over 100 colleges and universities. The foundation is named for the pianist and showman Walter Valentino Liberace, who was known by the stage name Liberace.
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