Sharon Holmes Scholarship

News

The Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ Scholarship Fund Receives Legacy Gift. Learn More>>

The 2009 Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ Scholarship overall winner is EuGene Park; runners-up are Rebecca Dreyman and Victoria Rogers! To learn more about our winners, please click here.

Update: 2008 Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ Scholarship winners - Sarah Donatelli and Elizabeth A. Maliszewski. At the awards ceremony on June 7, 2009 the Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ 2008 Scholarship Winners Sarah Donatelli (Temple University) and Beth Maliszewski (Rutgers University) received the second installment of their scholarship award after successfully completing their freshman year, maintaining their commitment to teach and an impressive GPA.
To learn more about Sarah and Beth, please click here.

Update: 2007 Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ Scholarship winner, Flora Yousefi received the second installment of the Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ Scholarship. Flora successfully completed her freshmen year at Montclair State University, maintaining excellent grades and showing renewed commitment to pursuing a career in string teaching. Congratulations, Flora! To learn more about Flora, please click here.

Sharon Holmes Scholarship

Photo Credit: Rona Landrigan

Elizabeth Maliszewski, Sarah Donatelli and Victoria Rogers - Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ Scholarship Winners

The Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ Scholarship
2010 Application Update

Sharon Holmes was a violinist, teacher and a tireless advocate for the value of string education in New Jersey. She was a longtime member and friend of the New Jersey Chapter of the American String Teacher’s Association, serving as treasurer and membership director. Sharon taught in the School District of the Chathams for seventeen years, where she built up a successful string program. She was also a violinist with a number of New Jersey’s professional orchestras including the Colonial Symphony, the New Jersey State Opera Orchestra, the Paper Mill Playhouse, the Princeton Symphony and the Westfield Symphony.

The Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ Scholarship Fund has been set up in her memory to help young New Jersey string students pursue a career in string teaching. An award of $2000 will be given annually to a New Jersey student in his/her senior year of high school planning a career in string education. The award will be presented in 2 installments. The first installment of $1000 will be presented in June of 2010 at the ASTA/NJ Awards Luncheon and the second installment upon completion of the first year of study, providing the candidate maintains a B average or better. The successful candidate will also receive a year of ASTA membership.

The full application is available on-line at www.astanj.com as a pdf file download (click here) to be directed to the application. Interested applicants should complete the application, compose the essay and submit a CD of their playing by April 9, 2010.

For more details contact Rona Landrigan at rlviolin28@gmail.com.

Sharon Holmes was a violinist, teacher and a tireless advocate for the value of string teaching in New Jersey. She was a longtime member of the New Jersey Chapter of the American String Teacher’s Association, an organization that actively promotes string teaching and playing. Sharon Holmes taught in Chatham Public Schools, where she built up a successful string program. She also reached out to other New Jersey communities by performing in orchestras throughout the state. The Sharon Holmes ASTA/NJ Scholarship Fund has been set up in her memory to help young New Jersey string students pursue a career in string teaching.