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, split among the winners.
Our next annual Scholarship Auditions will be held in spring of 2027. 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.
2026 Scholarship Winners
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.
Once again, we had an exceptional field of auditions. The judges were pleased to award scholarships to the following students:
Asher Koh, violin, won the Audrey Hammann Award for Musical Excellence. Asher is a student at the Eastman School of Music.
Ava Andrews, violin, won the Judy Goldman Award for Musical Excellence. Ava will be in graduate school at Boston University this fall.
Emily Schmidt, trumpet, won the Lily Kaufman Award for Musical Excellence. Emily is a student at Missouri State University.
2026 Encouragement Awards
In addition, Encouragement Awards were given to the following students: Jamie Decker, piano, Lucy Schapman, soprano, Matthew Kim, clarinet, Lily Cooper, marimba, and Giifti Benti, flute.
