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Scholarships » 2008 Scholarship Recipients
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2008 Scholarship Recipients
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In June 2008, Pittsford Musicals presented area high school seniors with scholarships. The funds for the scholarships were generated by the 2007 production of Steel Pier.
From Pittsford Sutherland High School
Katherine Cufari will major in Music Education and Music Therapy at Nazareth College. At Sutherland Kate appeared in “Crazy for You” and “Brigadoon” and was a member of the Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Choir, Glee Club, Concert Band and Concert Choir. She also was a medal winner on the varsity track and cross-country teams as well as a member of the National Honor Society, placing on the honor roll every semester in high school. Kate wants to become a music teacher and therapist. She says “It is my quest and goal to give back to the music community that has given me so much.”
Kat Patterson will attend SUNY New Paltz and major in Fine Arts and minor in Art History and Theatre Design. At Sutherland in addition to appearing in “Brigadoon” and other plays she served as president of the Theatre Makeup Club, vice president of the Art Club and was a member of the Drama Club. She won an Outstanding Service Award for her community service and the RISD Book Award in 2008. Kat would like to work in Theatre and Production Design specializing in makeup and special effects. Kat says “I love the arts, so ever since that first day of Sophomore year I have made it my mission to share my love of art with whatever school community I happen to be in. All the activities I have participated in high school helped shape me into the leader I never thought I could be.”
From Pittsford Mendon High School
Alicia Pabrinkis will attend Westminster College and major in Music Education. Ali was in a number of Mendon’s musicals and dramas, including “Guys and Dolls”, “Aida” and “Miss Saigon”. She appeared as Reno Sweeney in the Summer Enrichment Institute production of “Anything Goes”. Off stage she was editor-in-chief of the school yearbook and a member of the Select Chorus, Women’s Chorus, Show Choir and other music groups. She wants to be a high school Music Educator and direct high school musical and drama productions. Ali hopes that “I can one day inspire others the way my family, my teachers and my love for music has inspired me.”
Kathleen Grace Fiori will major in Musical Theater and minor in Business Administration at SUNY Fredonia. She most recently appeared in “Guys and Dolls”, “Aida” and numerous other Mendon shows. She was Hope Harcourt in “Anything Goes” for the Summer Enrichment Institute and was a featured dancer for the 2008 Stars of Tomorrow. She served as vice president of the Drama Club, All School Secretary for Student Government as well as secretary for the Musical Club and Womens' Choir. Kathleen was a semi-finalist in the 2006 Miss New York Teen USA Pageant. She says that she cannot see herself pursuing any career other than theater because she “thrives off the excitement and spontaneity of performing.”
From Brighton High School
Frankie DiCiaccio is well known to Pittsford Musicals from his role in “42nd Street”. He will attend Northwestern University’s School of Communication to major in Theatre with a minor in Dance. At Brighton he performed in several shows, was active in the Crazy Pitches a capella group, Select Vocal Jazz, was president of the Concert Choir and president of the school’s Welcoming Committee. He was a National Merit Commended Student and won a first place award in the 2007 Alice B. Wilson Poetry Contest. He wants to continue performing, expand into writing and possibly become a professor of English Literature. He is grateful to Pittsford Musicals for the scholarship that will “help ease the stressful tension of post-graduation loans that an expensive school like Northwester will no doubt cause.”
From East Rochester High School
Amanda Walter will attend Monroe Community College to major in Performing Arts. In addition to ballet, yoga, soccer, tennis and dance classes she has been active in local theatre, performing in over 20 productions including Stages, RAPA, Rochester Children’s Theatre and Sing Out. At school she has been active in Choir and Select Choir. She is teaching herself how to play guitar and she tutors fifth graders. Amanda wants to make theatre her career and plans to take an acting workshop this summer with the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles.
From Fairport High School
Olivia Moore will be a freshman at Cornell University in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. At school she played Polly Baker in “Crazy for You” and was active in Jazz Choir and her church’s Youth Choir. She won a 2008 Monroe County Youth Citizen of the Year Award and the Principal’s Recognition Award in both her junior and senior years. Although she is not majoring in Theatre she intends to continue performing as an extra-curricular activity, saying “there is absolutely no way that I could get through the tumultuous college years without the thrill and fulfillment of singing and dancing for an audience”. She is interested in a career involving political science, perhaps as a lawyer.
From Honeoye Falls-Lima High School
Pauline Jarvie will attend Elizabethtown College to major in Music Therapy. In high school she appeared in the fall plays, summer music programs and Select Chorus. She takes voice and guitar lessons. Pauline won a National Choral Award as well as Outstanding Achievement and Outstanding Dedication Choral Awards. She intends to pursue careers in community theatre and music therapy and perhaps psychology.
From Penfield High School
Carly Rohlin, the Bill Weyl Memorial Scholarship Winner, will be a student this fall at SUNY Brockport where she will major in Elementary Education and Spanish. At Penfield she was in Jazz Choir, Show Choir and appeared in “The Pajama Game” and “Crazy for You”. She was chosen as an Outstanding Featured Actress in the 2008 Stars of Tomorrow. She was selected for Conference All-State Women’s Choir in 2006. She has been an active volunteer at her church and has won an Outstanding Achievement Award in Chemistry. Carly wants to be a bilingual elementary school teacher and perhaps become a school principal. She says “the feeling I get when I perform is unlike any other I have experienced in my entire life. To know that when I perform I have the power to move someone to tears, cause someone to laugh or prompt someone to think about an idea differently absolutely astonishes me.”
From Rush-Henrietta High School
Sarah Hillmon will attend New York University to obtain her BFA in Dance. She has been active in Rochester City Ballet and Garth Fagan Dance Company. She has won an Outstanding Achievement Award in Music Theory and is in the Music Honor Society, French Honor Society, National Honor Society and the Science and Math Honor Society. She is an Urban League Black Scholar. Sarah wants to pursue a career as a professional dancer and later to earn a masters degree to teach dance to youth. She says that her passion for dance will always guide her and she quotes Winston Churchill: “We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.”
From Rochester School of the Arts
Jared David Michael Grant is going to Columbia College in Chicago to major in Musical Theatre Arts. He has performed in several of SOTA’s musicals and was active in Jack & Jill Inc., BYF and served as assistant secretary for the Commencement Academy. He wants to become a great actor and a teacher. Jared says that the theatre “has allowed me to use the gifts that God has given me, and to share these gifts with those I come in contact with. I believe that theatre is a key to my soul”.
From Victor High School
Lauren Reinhardt will be a freshman at SUNY Fredonia majoring in Music Education (Violin). She has played violin at Sonnenburg Gardens, weddings and at a number of nursing homes and charitable events. In high school she was in the orchestra (including the pit orchestra for “Beauty and the Beast”) and string quartet. She was Area All Conference, Area All County and Area All State for NYSSMA Solofest and has won several Principal’s Recognition Awards. Lauren wants to become a music education strings teacher for 4th, 5th and 6th grade students. She says that “without music the world would be an extremely quiet and dull place. It can open peoples’ minds and create extraordinary images and ideas.”
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