COLUMBUS, Ind. – Heritage Fund, the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County, has announced high school seniors Matthew Liu and Andrei Minut as the grand prize winners of the 2022 Brown Music Competition that was hosted virtually on Saturday from Columbus Indiana Philharmonic’s Helen Haddad Hall.
Liu, a student of Columbus North and piano instructor Irina Ter-Grigoryan, won the Betty F. Brown Awards for Instrumental Excellence, performing “Moonlight Sonata,” by Beethoven. Minut, a home-schooled baritone student of Camilla Gehring, won the Anna Newell Brown Award for Vocal Excellence, singing songs by Schumann and Quilter. Both students receive a $3,500 scholarship award.
There were seven other senior award winners at the competition and they were:
• Saylor Lancaster, piano, $2,000
• Tiffany Fu, violin, $1,000
• Clara Halsey, piano, $500
• Sofia Martinez, mezzo, $1250
• Lillie Tickel, mezzo, $1250
• Anna Jackson, mezzo, $500
• Olivia Pittman, soprano, $500
Four underclasspersons were also awarded scholarship money and they were:
• Sreepadaarchana Munjuluri, violin, $2,000
• Aislinn Tian, marimba, $600
• Darren Li, violin, $400
• Molly Hotek, soprano, $2,000