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