SOUTH BEND - Seventeen winners and 18 honorable mentions from a field of 108 contestants were named last weekend in the 13th annual Hartman Stickley Memorial Piano Competition held at Century Center.
The competition was sponsored by the South Bend Area Music Teachers Association and underwritten by the Elnora Hartman Stickley Scholarship Fund.
The competition was open to pre-college students from kindergarten through 12th grade. There were four divisions: Division I (K-3rd grade), Division II (4th-6th grade), Division III (7th-9th grade) and Division IV (10th-12th grade).
In the Division III, Liesl Schroedl, 13, Winona Lake, an eighth-grader at Lakeview Middle School, Warsaw, won honorable mention.
Schroedl will receive a cash award of $30 and will perform at the Winners Recital Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the Anneberg Auditorium, Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame. The recital is free and open to the public.
