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Two St. Olaf music students win prizes at the 80th Annual Schubert Club Scholarship competition

Carole Engblom
May 6, 2003

The 80th annual Schubert Club Competition on April 26, featured the prize-winning talent of young musicians and awarded $38,000 in scholarships to students from the Twin Cities area and western Wisconsin. St. Olaf students Christopher Jacobsen ?04 and Evelyn Johnson received top honors in the competition. Jacobsen, who studies under John Ferguson, the Elliot and Klara Stockdahl Johnson Professor of Music, played the Kachian organ and received a first prize award. Johnson, who studies under Janis Hardy, associate professor of music and voice opera, competed in the category of intermediate voice and received second place honors. More than 200 students participated in the competition which included voice, strings, piano, brass/woodwinds, guitar and organ.

Contact Carole at 507-786-3315 or leigh@stolaf.edu.