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Musical Club of Hartford

Evelyn Bonar Storrs Piano Scholarship Fund

In the 1980's, Evelyn Bonar Storrs made a bequest to the Musical Club of Hartford to establish a piano scholarship. Her will stated in part, “I have tried to express my appreciation for the enjoyment and pleasure in having been a member of the Musical Club of Hartford...With this in mind, I have established the Evelyn Bonar Storrs Scholarship Fund to provide scholarships for talented and advanced students of piano...”

The Musical Club’s Evelyn Bonar Storrs Scholarship Committee administers this fund, and distributes these funds in two (2) ways:

  1. Through grants to organizations which then award these funds to qualified pianists;
  2. Through individual scholarships to advanced students of piano.​


​To apply for a scholarship, a student must submit the following:

  1. A completed application form. This form is found on this website as a fillable PDF form which can be exported or saved and then opened and completed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. The completed form should be attached to an email and sent to the following address:  smher82<at>aol.com.
  2. A letter of recommendation from the student's current teacher. The letter must be sent by the teacher to the person whose email address is given below.
  3. All application materials and a letter of recommendation are mandatory. All materials must be submitted electronically by email to: Suzanne Hertel, Chair, EBS Scholarship Commitee at email address: smher82<at>aol.com.

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Applications for individual scholarships

  1. Applications for these scholarships are accepted from February 1 to April 1. Eligible students must be age 18-30 and have traditional classical training.
  2. Preference is given to students who either live in Connecticut or attend area universities.
  3. Applicants must currently be studying at the graduate (doctoral/artist's diploma or masters) or undergraduate (junior or senior) levels.
  4. Recipients of these scholarships are selected each year by the E.B. Storrs Committee in April after consideration of submitted material.
  5. Applicants are limited to four (4) awards in total.

Selected recipients are invited to participate in the Storrs Scholars Recital for members of the Musical Club and the general public in March of the following year.

The following were awarded scholarships in 2024: Youmei Cai, Pia Castellano, HoMan Cheung, Sophia Cornicello, Yimiao Fang, Mingyue Fu, Derek Hartman, Han Hu, Lyndon Ji, Carter Johnson, Linda Lee, Georgi Lekov, Robert Levinger, Grace Nieh, Zifan Qiu, Ramsey Scott, Arisa Sato, Alexa Stier, Elisabeth Tsai, Zhizhi Xiang, and Qianqian Xie

Congratulations to all!