Violinist Alex Hargreaves of Corvallis, Oregon Named Berklee College of Music and Monterey Jazz Festival’s Fourteenth Jimmy Lyons Scholar
Award Presentation Will be Made on the Jimmy Lyons Stage at the 53rd Monterey Jazz Festival, on Sunday, September 19
September 10, 2010; Monterey, CA; The Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival have announced that award-winning violinist, recording artist and accomplished touring musician Alex Hargreaves of Corvallis, Oregon, is the fourteenth recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee, a major music education prize. The full-tuition scholarship is named in honor of the festival’s late founder, James L. (Jimmy) Lyons, who began the festival 53 years ago with jazz education at its core.
The Jimmy Lyons Scholarship is awarded each year to one music student in recognition of their outstanding talent. Previously restricted to student musicians from the state of California, this year marks the second time the scholarship competition has been open to young musicians from the Western United States. Because it is a full-tuition, renewable award, satisfactory academic and musical progress in each successive year will allow each Lyons Scholar to attend Berklee through graduation, entirely tuition-free. Previous Lyons Scholars include saxophonist Dayna Stephens (Kenny Barron), drummer James Williams (Gary Burton), cellist Rushad Eggleston (Crooked Still, Fiddlers Four), and drummer Thomas Pridgen (The Mars Volta).