Alexander Imai, a student at Pacific Collegiate School, received a 2013 Ken Brosius Memorial Scholarship from the Gold Standard Barbershop Chorus of Santa Cruz.
The $1,000 award, named for the chorus’s founder, is intended to help Alexander with tuition at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ. He will be working on a degree in Music Education.
Raffles held during the Gold Standard’s annual Cabaret Show in June and the Sing for Your Life school benefit last November, provide the funds for the scholarship.
For information about the Gold Standard Chorus or the Cabaret Show, please visit www.scbarbershop.org.
(end release)(photo caption KB0530122) With his music teacher Alice Hughes looking on, Alexander Imai, a graduating senior at Pacific Collegiate, received a $1,000.00 scholarship from Gold Standard Chorus president Jack Gordon.
(end caption)Contact:
Lawrence Stern
Gold Standard Chorus publicity
831 476 6246Additional Information: The Gold Standard Barbershop Chorus (GSBC) is the Santa Cruz chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS). Both GSBC and BHS are non-profit organizations dedicated to “keeping the whole world singing.” Most chapters are “male only,” but the Santa Cruz chorus has female “auxiliary singers.” The ratio is explained on the chorus web site,www.scbarbershop.org. GSBC delivers Valengrams in February, puts on an annual cabaret show in June, and sings carols in hospitals and retirement homes in December. GSBC also sends quartets into the county’s high schools to demonstrate barbershop music, one of America’s indigenous music forms.