Holy Names Music Center’s annual talent grant competition is pleased announce this year’s winners. The competition is an opportunity for HNMC students to perform for an adjudicator not affiliated with Holy Names Music Center and compete for a monetary award toward their music lessons in the coming year.

This year’s adjudicator was David Dutton, specialist in period instruments, and adjunct faculty of the Whitworth Music Department (B.Mus., Oberlin Conservatory; Performance Diploma, Mozarteum, Salzburg): oboe.

Thirteen students auditioned with teacher recommendations in the areas of strings, voice, and piano. The Music Center has a long history of awarding these grants to students who have talent and/or potential making it quite possible for a beginning student to win the grant!

Congratulations to these wonderful, hardworking students and their teachers!

This year in April Holy Names Music Center held our first ever “A Musical Feast” benefit to support music education and performance opportunities in our community and invite people to the music center to enjoy some great music food, and drink and learn more about all that we do.

It was a great night – Enjoy this little taste from the event!

Thank you so much to all the musicians, teachers, students, volunteers, our board and staff members who put in countless hours in support of our beloved music center and out mission to provide quality instruction and performance opportunities for all!

Musicians:
String Ensemble:
Eric Gallagher, violin/viola, (student of Claire Keeble (HNMC faculty)
Anthony Manoguerra, violin/viola (student of Claire Keeble (HNMC faculty)
Tiffany Wang, 2nd violin
Germaine Morgan, cello
Piano:
Linda Siverts (HNMC faculty)
Jazz Ensemble:
Eugene Jablonsky, bass
Brendan McMurphy, trumpet (HNMC faculty member)
Guitar:
J.P. Shields (HNMC faculty)
Songs from Always, Patsy Cline:
Andrea Olsen, voice (HNMC faculty member)
Drew Olsen, piano

Special thanks to our wonderful sponsors who helped make this event possible!
Keep an eye out for our next sip and paint evening in October of 2019!

Holy Names Music Center continually seeks to live up to it’s mission to provide high quality instruction and performance opportunities for all by offering scholarships to new and continuing students who may not otherwise be able to afford music lessons.

Over the past nine years Holy Names Music Center has awarded over $100,000.00 to help students young and old, from beginner to advanced achieve their dreams of pursuing a musical education in a variety of different disciplines.

Notes from our 2018-2019 students:

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If you or your child have always had a dream to learn an instrument, or train your own voice… and financial circumstances are standing in your way – we encourage you to apply!

Click the following link for more information about Applying for a Scholarship

Help us in our mission to bring music into the lives of as many people with sincere interest in learning music as we can!

Donate now or Mail your donation to:

Holy Names Music Center
Attn: Scholarship Fund
3910 W. Custer Drive
Spokane, WA 99224

This year, as for a great many of us, the holidays have crept up on me. It is, truthfully, almost a surprise that Thanksgiving is next week. As the colder and darker days have successfully crept up on me, so has the merriest season of the year. Long gone are the warm and sunny days of summer and here are the cold and wet days of autumn and winter. I myself prefer the long warm days; exercise seems easier, days seem somehow more carefree, friends seem more eager to socialize, and while rationally I know better, days seem to have more time to get things accomplished.

However, for as much nostalgia as I hold for each summer I think it’s important to mindfully live in the present. With that being said, this time of year always seems to be impossibly busy for me. Of course there’s always work, then you have school, you have after school activities such as sports and music lessons, errands for the home, dinner, cleaning the house, trying to connect and communicate with a family that is just as hectic; it all seems to be quite overbearing. To add to an already impossible load there’s planning with relatives about the upcoming holidays, holiday cards, concerts for the kids, Christmas shopping, Thanksgiving shopping; the list goes on. To digress, the holiday’s are often a time where we get caught up in the shuffle rather than taking the time to enjoy this special time of year.

Therefore, this holiday season I am trying to be intentional in my doings. Each day I have been completing a journal of what I am thankful for. As I have been documenting what I am grateful for, often the largest impact on my day, the thing I am most grateful for, is an individual. Therefore, I challenged myself to affirm someone, each day, for the rest of November. In all honesty, documenting my gratitude has been tedious more than it has been enjoyable. The antipodal experience for me has been affirming my friends and family. I love receiving thoughtful words of affirmation, it’s one of my preferred love languages, so I get similar enjoyment when I am able to give someone a thoughtful affirmation.

My effort this month has been to have an appreciation for the holiday season rather than coast through it. By my own measurement I think I have done a fair job in this endeavor but I will reserve my assessment for after Thanksgiving; my attitude on the actual holiday and dealing with the stress of traveling and coordinating with my relatives may very well counter balance the efforts I have made this month. 🙂

My encouragement to you, before it’s too late, is to take a moment and examine yourself. What is it that you have to be grateful for; my guess would be a whole lot. Whom in your life makes life more enjoyable? Is it your spouse or children; would your recent interactions with those people communicate your gratitude for them? Have you been preparing yourself to enjoy this holiday or will you unintentionally coast through it? Though this upcoming holiday may be all about food for your stomach, I challenge you to digest this food for thought. Happy Thanksgiving from everyone here at HNMC!

Posted by Jon Terry