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Buffalo Chamber Music Society

Silverman Scholarships

Robert Prokes presenting the 2016 Silverman Scholarship Awards.

Every year we award a scholarship to a promising Western New York high school senior pursuing a career in music. Past winners of the award, named in honor of Clare and Oscar Silverman, have attended music schools including Juilliard, the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, the Eastman School of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Curtis Institute and the Manhattan School of Music.  From there, some have gone on to careers in music performance and others devoted themselves to teaching the next generation of musicians.

Scholarship Winners 2017-2022

2022

Camille Kelly, viola


2021

Miriam Smith, violin
Emily Xu, violin


2020

Benjamin Mekinulov, cello
Leah Streety, violin


2019

Matthew Cone, violin - Emily Xu, violin - Lauryn Koeppel, viola - Rachel Kempf, viola - Max Culp, cello


2018

Frank Wendelin, guitar
Philomena Vennari, viola


2017

Drew Cone, cello
Christophe Koenig, violin

Scholarship Winners 2011-2016

2016

Katelyn Adams, bass
Jonathan Kim, cello
Sarah Troeller, cello


2015

Isaac Gadikian, bass
Grace Ann Lee, cello
Mandela Namaste, violin
Angel Rhodes, violin
Elizabeth Vennari, viola


2014

Teagan Faran, violin
Alexander Cousins, cello


2013

Robert Donowick, viola
Cindy Q. Xue, violin
Jacquelyn Harning, violin
Kimberly Yaeger, violin


2012

David Skrill, cello
Laura Cimenelli, doublebass


2011

Donald Sheets, cello
Joshua Depoint, doublebass

Buffalo Chamber Music Society
P.O. Box 349 Buffalo N.Y.14207
Phone:716.462.4939
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