Erskine
College Student Wins Piano Competition Award
The Erskine College Department of Music has
announced that Jenny Shealy, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin I. Shealy of Clinton and a senior at
Erskine, was declared the alternate winner (second
place) in the South Carolina Music Teachers' National
Association Collegiate Competition, held on the
campus of Coker College in Hartsville.
Ten collegiate piano students, representing such
institutions as Bob Jones University, Furman
University, and the College of Charleston, competed
in this event. In addition to the winner and
alternate awards, the three judges recognized four
other contestants with an honorable mention. Each
student in the competition was required to perform a
program of 55 minutes of repertoire, including an
entire piano concerto and solo pieces from three
different stylistic periods.
Shealy, a senior piano performance major, was one
of thirty students selected from the United States,
Canada, and countries overseas to study this past
summer at the Adamant Music School in Vermont, an
intensive month-long program for gifted piano
students. Upon her graduation this spring, she plans
to enter graduate school in piano performance and
pedagogy. She is a piano student of Dr. Matthew
Manwarren, Assciate Professor of Music at Erskine
College.
Erskine was founded by the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church in 1839 and is the oldest
four-year church-related college in South Carolina.
It has been dedicated to “Christian Commitment
and Excellence in Learning” for 160 years.
