Students who live or go to a college or university within 100 miles of St. Louis are eligible to audition. Students must be pursuing a music degree as a major area of study. Scholarship prizes up to $1000 will be awarded, for a total of $3000. Last year, students won prizes of $1000, $1000, $500, and $500.
Our next annual Scholarship Auditions will be held Saturday, May 17, 2025 at UMSL. This is the highlight of the year for us! Emails to college and university instructors and department heads will be coming soon!
If you’d like to be on our mailing list to receive information about next year’s auditions for yourself or for your students, please message us.
May 2025 Awards
Throughout its 142-year history, the purpose of the Ladies’ Friday Musical Club has always been to support young musicians in their college and university music studies. Auditions are held every year and scholarship prizes are awarded. We are so grateful for the continuing support of our generous donors and their financial gifts to these promising young musicians.
This year’s field was exceptional and eleven very strong candidates auditioned on May 17. The judges were tasked with exceedingly difficult decisions and were pleased to award scholarships to six students. Here are the results of this year’s auditions.
Brody VanWave, cello student at Harvard University was awarded the Lily Kauffman Scholarship.
Jacob Philipak, clarinet student at the University of Missouri – St. Louis was awarded the Musical Excellence Scholarship.
Sophia Heaton, violin student at the University of Michigan was awarded the Judy Goldman Scholarship.
Jamie Decker, piano student at Ithaca College was awarded the Audrey Hammann Scholarship.
Lily Cooper, percussion student at the Berklee School of Music in Boston was awarded the Extraordinary Musicianship Scholarship.
Elizabeth Button, vocal student at Webster University was awarded the Ellen Streib Scholarship.