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The Stephenson Music Scholarship FundThrough June 1, 2010, I am accepting one-page written applications (emails to ComposerJim@gmail.com are preferred) describing what you hope to be doing 20 years from now and the definite steps you will be taking to get there. I don't want to hear audio samples or see videos. This is simply a scholarship awarded to someone who knows what they want and is able to articulate it in a comprehensive and compelling way. The Stephenson Music Scholarship is an initiative intended to award young trumpeters the chance to further their trumpet studies at the music festival/camp of their own choosing. I myself am/was a trumpeter, and benefited from many generous donors throughout my young career as a student trumpet player. I had the chance to attend Interlochen (camp: '79-86, academy '83-86), Tanglewood: '85, Music Academy of the West: '88-89, '91, LA Philharmonic Institute: '90, and Spoleto: '94. The repertoire, instruction and performance experience proved invaluable as I then went on into my professional career with the Naples Philharmonic. For 17 years in Naples, I almost never came across a piece that I hadn't met before in some fashion at one of the camps I attended. Attendance at most, if not all, of these camps was only possible due to financial assistance I received from institutions or private individuals. It is unknown, at this point, how much help I will be able to offer with regard to Dollar Downloads, but it is my intent to pass along the spirit of giving I was lucky to receive. Thank you for your assistance in helping make this become a reality! Jim Stephenson 
September 1, 2009 Stephenson announces that the 2009 recipient of the Dollar Download award is 22-year old trumpeter Jered Montgomery from Mulkeytown, Illinois. In the recipient's words: My name is Jered Montgomery. I'm 22 years old. I'm a first semester graduate student studying Trumpet Orchestral Studies at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of the Performing Arts. My current trumpet teacher is Mark Ridenour, 3rd/Assistant Principal of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. I grew up in Mulkeytown, Illinois, pop. 200. My father is a farmer/landscaper who has polio and my mother is a homemaker/babysitter. I started playing the trumpet in 5th grade. My first teacher, who I proceeded to study with through my undergraduate degree, was Dr. Robert Allison at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. I started lessons with Dr. Allison in 7th grade (1999). During high school, I was very fortunate to meet Charlie Schlueter, retired principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony. Charlie bought a trumpet for me during my sophomore year of high school because my parents couldn't afford a professional quality instrument. During my career at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, I had the opportunity to play at Domaine Forget in Quebec, the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro NC, the Southern Illinois Music Festival, and Carnegie Hall. Academically, I was on the Dean's List for 8 semesters, received the Theodore Presser Scholarship, the SIUC Provost Scholarship, and the School of Music Talent Award. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and was offered a full tuition scholarship to Roosevelt for my master's degree. Currently, I'm playing principal trumpet in Roosevelt's first orchestra concert and will be performing the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with Collegium Musicum at Roosevelt's Ganz Hall on December 10th. |
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