SOUTH BEND – The 22nd annual Hartman Stickley Memorial Piano Competition Winners Recital will be at 2:30 p.m. March 12 in the IUSB Northside Auditorium, South Bend. The competition will be held Friday and Saturday at the Northpoint Vineyard Church, Granger, and is open to pre-college students. The winners from each division will performer in the recital and will receive cash prizes. Those prizes are: Division VI, ages 16-18, $175; Division V, ages 14-15, $150; Division IV, ages 12-13, $125; Division III, ages 10-11, $100; Division II, ages 8-9, $75; and Division I, ages 7 and under, $50. Contestants who receive honorable mention also will win cash prizes. All awards will be dispersed following the recital. The competition, sponsored by the South Bend Area Music Teachers Association, is open to piano students of teachers residing in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph counties in Michigan; and Allen, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte, Marshall, Noble, St. Joseph and Starke counties in Indiana. Prize money is made available through the Elnora Hartman Stickley Scholarship Fund. For more information, contact competition chair Paula Laskowski at 574-276-9313 or klaskow824@att.net. You also may visit the South Bend Area Music Teacher Association’s website at www.sbamta.org.
