Cascade Symphony Awards $12K In Scholarships To Local Students

From Cascade Symphony Orchestra: Scholarships ranging from $2,000 to $3,000 have been awarded by the Cascade Symphony Orchestra to five high school seniors from the Edmonds, Mukilteo, Northshore and Shoreline school districts.

Shintaro Taneda of Lynnwood and Jakob Fortiner of Brier were each awarded $3,000 scholarships.

Taneda, a violinist who currently attends Lynnwood High School in the Edmonds School District, plans to enter the San Francisco Conservatory of Music this fall.

Fortiner, a percussionist who attends Inglemoore High School in the Northshore School District, said he will continue his studies at the University of Washington.

Owen Cromwell and Andrew Shinn — both of whom reside in Mukilteo and attend Kamiak High School — were each awarded $2,000 scholarships.

Cromwell, a violinist, will enter St. Olaf’s School of Music in Northfield, Minnesota this fall, taking on a double major in music and computer science.

Shinn, who plays the viola, will attend Stanford University.

Natalie Whitlock, who resides in Edmonds and goes to Edmonds-Woodway High School, was presented with a $2,000 scholarship. The alto saxophonist said she will attend Whitworth University in the fall.

“We have been awarding scholarships to talented high school seniors for many years, because supporting music education is a high priority for the orchestra,” said Holly Sullivan, who is scholarship chair for the Cascade Symphony Orchestra.

The five students were among 17 who applied to the Cascade Symphony for consideration. Each provided an audition CD containing up to five minutes of their finest performance, without accompaniment.

They were presented on stage during intermission of the Cascade Symphony’s “Mozart and Mahler” concert on May 6 at the Edmonds Center for the Arts.