HTC's 2007 Scholarship Winners in The Star Ledger

Hickory Tree's 2007 Scholarship winners were featured in The Star-Ledger.
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"Two Local Singers Win Music Scholarships"

College Corner

The Star-Ledger — Thursday, September 20, 2007

A local scholarship committee didn't have to search very far for its annual candidate. In fact, there were two deserving students within its own group.

Carianne Bennett of Millington and Lauren Kahn of Gillette were named recipients of the 2007 Hick ory Tree Chorus Music Scholarship.

The $1,000 scholarship is awarded annually to a musically talented young woman interested in pursuing a career in music. For the first time in its 20-year history the scholarship was awarded to two young women, both members of Hickory Tree Chorus.

"We were fortunate to have two very talented, very deserving candi dates within our own chorus this year," said Lynn Macbeth, Hickory Tree Chorus scholarship chair. Both young women are 2007 graduates of Watchung Hills Regional High School.

Carianne Bennett will major in vocal studies at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. Her extensive musical background includes participation in the New Jersey chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition, placing as high as second; participation in the Spoleto Arts Symposium in Italy, performing the role of Mother in "Hansel and Gretel" and acceptance to the All-State Opera Festival.

Lauren Kahn will major in physics and minor in music at Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill. She is a member of the National Honor Society, a Bloustein Distinguished Scholar and recognized by Watchung Hills Regional High School for Outstanding Achievement in calculus and in French. She has studied voice, piano, music theory and arranging, and has participated in the New Jersey Youth Chorus, Central New Jersey Region Chorus and the New Jersey All-State Chorus.

With Bennett, Kahn conducted independent research, in conjunc tion with her Advanced Placement Physics class, regarding the ties between physics and vocal pedagogy.

Both young women have competed and performed with Hickory Tree Chorus, a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, and with Capriccio, a registered Sweet Ade lines International quartet. With the chorus, they have been named Regional Champions, and with Capriccio they have participated in, and placed as high as third, in the Sweet Adelines International Education Symposium Quartet Competition.

Hickory Tree Chorus members from more than 40 communities rehearse weekly in New Providence. As the 2007 Greater New York Region Champions of Sweet Adelines International, they will compete in Honolulu, Hawaii, with choruses from around the world in November 2008. For scholarship, membership, booking, or performance information, visit hickorytreechorus.org.